Upston LouiseHon LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō): Thank you Mr Speaker. And we are coming to the conclusion of this. I won't try to match my dear friend Andrew Bayly's energy but I will be equally enthusiastic—enthusiastic about the fact that we are sick to death of a Labour Party who fails to plan because that is why we are here at 20 to 12. In 20 minutes Auckland will have been in lockdown for 100 days. So we are here debating under urgency legislation that is supposedly about Taxation (COVID-19 Support Payments and Working for Families Tax Credits) but if you're a business—whether you're in Auckland or you're a business in Taupō that's been severely affected by the fact that Auckland's been in lockdown for nearly 100 days—you are none the wiser in terms of what support you will get when you will get it how much it will be and how it will be delivered. So I actually find it's quite insulting.I started my first business at 19 and I want to pay tribute to every business owner out there because I can't really even begin to imagine how hard it's been. So I find it really insulting to be passing under urgency legislation that doesn't give them any clarity—no certainty no information no detail about what support might be available in the days weeks and months ahead.So the Government gets excited about the traffic light system and the only colour they like is red. So they tell us that Auckland's going to start in red. And for how long and what support will be available? What financial support will be available for businesses when Auckland goes into red? And what about the rest of the country? Are we going into orange? No one's going into green.Stuart Smith: No no.Hon LOUISE UPSTON: Stuart you're not going into green—we know that for a fact. So in terms of this business support package I think this is yet another example of a Government that is overpromising and under-delivering. Sounds good sounds exciting here's the business support but actually no detail.And then we move into the Working for Families tax credits. We heard speakers on the other side talk about the fact that this is being delivered now and it's under urgency because COVID's affected middle-income New Zealand families and low-income families. Well actually this was happening anyway. This has got nothing to do with COVID. Labour members must stop using COVID as an excuse for everything. If you're going to Consumers Price Index (CPI) adjust Working for Families and Best Start payments that were going to happen anyway don't then say oh you're doing it because everyone's had a tough time under COVID. No. Be honest. Be upfront. Tell the population—SPEAKER: Order! Order! Sorry I apologise for interrupting the member. If members are going to have conversations which need their masks off please leave the Chamber.Hon LOUISE UPSTON: Thank you Mr Speaker. So we tolerate time and time again day after day everything being blamed on COVID. So when you stand in this House and pass legislation under urgency let's be honest with the public the Working for Families tax credits is simply a CPI adjustment with a couple of bucks a week extra thrown in. The Best Start payment 61c—61c over and above the CPI adjustment—yippee excitement! So at least be upfront with the public and don't put everything on COVID. Don't as my colleague the Hon Michael Woodhouse suggested profess to be this absolute saviour and this very very generous Government that is just giving out cash willy-nilly. Well actually $5 a week—our view is if you were going to do anything you should have let those people who are in work keep more of what they earned in the first place.And the third thing was this is meant to be delivering on Jacinda Ardern's big promise to lift 100000 children out of poverty. So again the big promise: no delivery. Oh so we'll just tuck it into—we'll say it a few times in this bill that we're debating in Parliament under urgency and it'll sound like we're doing something. Well guess what the members opposite when they gave their first reading speeches couldn't even get the numbers right. So here's the numbers for you: 2017 Jacinda Ardern promised to lift 100000 children out of poverty. On the measures she used then to where we are now there are 1500 more children in poverty—1500 more. So you're not even going in the right direction yet. And to suggest—and there's not that many days in the House that Jan Logie and I agree but we agreed on many things tonight. That $5 a week do not oversell this to the New Zealand public. They are not stupid and it's insulting to suggest that 350000 families will be better off as a result of this bill. Five bucks. How much has their rent gone up? Hundred bucks a week.So I'm very happy to conclude the arguments on behalf that the National Party has put forward tonight under urgency under duress and we are opposing the Taxation (COVID19 Support Payments and Working for Families Tax Credits) Bill.