McLellan TraceyDr TRACEY McLELLAN (Labour): Sorry I was taken by surprise. I was expecting that Minister McKee had so many fabulous things to say that she was going to take the whole five minutes but she stopped very abruptly and I still had a lolly in my mouth—that's how unprepared I was.Hon Dr Duncan Webb: It's the 7.5 percent cut.Dr TRACEY McLELLAN: Yeah gosh it was—exactly. The theme of today has been the hundred-day plan—hasn't it—as we gallop towards the finish line of the coalition Government's hundred-day plan. Those 49 bullet points that—somewhere deep inside Christopher Luxon when he first talked about it with such enthusiasm he said things like Our Government is going to start the way we mean to go on." I think he probably meant that in a positive way but as we get close to the finish line as we get close to the end of that hundred-day plan I think most New Zealanders would be thinking "How much more can we take of this?" He wasn't joking—he does mean to go on the way he started.Somewhere deep inside Christopher Luxon I'm sure there's also a little dream that's slowly dying you know a little inspiration that's slowly wizening. I don't imagine he thought that he would be in the position he now finds himself in. I imagine that when he became Prime Minister he literally gave that speech talking with pride about his first hundred days thinking it would be full of things he was going to do full of things he was going to actually achieve. But what happened? Nicola Willis' campaign promises to give Kiwis tax cuts is really beginning to bite. And hasn't that changed the whole tone of that hundred days?National promised there would be no cuts to front-line services. But the reality is they now have to scramble to find money to fund what was always reckless tax cuts that they could not afford. And they're trying to sneak in much much larger cuts to the Public Service than I'm sure that even they intended when they first started on this hundred-day journey. We don't have to take my word for it. On The AM Show back in August end of August last year Ryan Bridge said to Nicola Willis "Will you promise no cuts to front-line services?" What did she say? "I make that promise and that will be clear in our tax plan. What's more Ryan every Budget that Chris Luxon and I deliver will include more spending for health and for education." How did that turn out?Yesterday we were in this House and we unfortunately witnessed the repeal of the smoke-free legislation That is just one example of quite extreme measures that I'm sure this coalition Government didn't envision themselves doing. But under the pressure of having to fund tax cuts this is what they've done. They've literally repealed world-leading legislation so they can fund tax cuts and that is shameful.What about education? This week we've heard the fact that thousands of classroom builds—many many schools throughout the country—will now have those plans put on hold because they're just choosing not to fund it. They can give all the excuses in the world but that's what it comes down to. There is a clear choice about what their priority is and this Government has said that schools and health is not theirs.The other theme of this week apart from the fact that we're galloping towards the finish line of what is a pretty abysmal hundred-day plan—Simon Court: Just wait till we get to the next hundred days.Dr TRACEY McLELLAN: —is the fact that everything—well we can only imagine—is about reversing. What was it that their campaign slogan was all about? "Getting back on track." I think we have to really acknowledge the fact that the "back" part was doing a lot of heavy lifting in that campaign slogan wasn't it. Everything is about going backwards.I feel sorry for some of the new members of Parliament who have had to sit in this House over the last few days in particular with straight faces and pretend that they're on board with some of these measures when clearly they're not. Some of them have been under immense pressure particularly in relation to the repeal of the smoke-free legislation. I feel bad for them but they had a choice as well because everything is about choice and politics is about choice. They had a choice last night to cross the floor and do the right thing and say "No" they weren't going to go ahead with that piece of legislation just to fund tax cuts and they absolutely chose not to. We've heard lots of little anecdotes from members on the other side of the House today about plans in their local electorates and little bits and pieces which is absolutely their prerogative but I really do wonder why they're not talking about the things that matter to all New Zealanders."