Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. I just want to congratulate you for your new position as Assistant Speaker. I also want to extend my congratulations to your other presiding officers as well. So well done Adrian well done. Thank you very much Mr Assistant Speaker for allowing me to stand up and take this call.I just want to say that the previous speaker Shane Jones—I think he had all blow and really no go in his speech. He talked about planting trees. He talked about planting exotic trees and he talked about planting native trees. Timber trees—where are our timber trees that we will be able to build houses with? He never really touched on those kinds of trees. Some exotic trees you can't use and some native trees you cannot use to do that because there will be a moratorium on native trees.When I hear the member as he talks about sitting on this side actually and he talks about Māori and extinction of Māori on this side of the House. Well that's not what happened. We know that over 56 Treaty claims were actually resolved under the previous Government. We know that we worked very hard with the Hon Chris Finlayson to do that work because Māori needed to have the opportunity to grow their own economic development. It's the work that we have done on this side that is actually preparing them for future economic development for all their mokopuna mai rā nō. And I am sure that the people of the Whanganui Awa will benefit from this as well the work that we've done for Te Awa Tupua in recognising—and it was a landmark piece of legislation—the awa as a person.So when I stand here and I listen to all the rhetoric from across the way over there from the Government Ministers I start to think you know let's have a look at Mr Twyford's housing. He wants to have these KiwiBuilds. He wants to have all of these KiwiBuilds yet he tends to forget that it was this Government that actually built more houses than what any Labour Government had ever built in their history. Social housing's been upgraded—the Housing New Zealand homes. We have amazing social houses in Christchurch in Christchurch East and now with this push to have 100000 homes per year the people of New Brighton the guardians of Rāwhiti Domain and the rest of the people of New Brighton are now fearing that the Government will take their domain away and put houses on it. This is not what the people of Christchurch East of Rāwhiti and of New Brighton want and we will fight it every single way to stop any kind of housing going on the Rāwhiti Domain. That's how it is. It is our Hagley Park of the east. It is nobody else's and no Government no council has a right to put a house on there.I attended a meeting just recently of a number of people. It was one of the biggest meetings that they had had. It was a community meeting about this issue and one of the things they were very clear about and they did pass that on to the Minister for Greater Christchurch Regeneration Minister Megan Woods—they did pass on their fear that they would lose this battle to retain their Rāwhiti Domain.So when I start to look at all the promises that come from the Government and I look at the way that this side of the House has actually set up this Government—we've set them up. We have increased the average wage by $13000 from $46000. That's nearly $60000 the average wage that people get in their pockets. That's a really good set up to help people to actually be able to live comfortably in their lifestyles the way that they choose.I also look at the family packages—$1350 per annum for people; 3.1 million people would have got that under National had National been the Government. This side over there—the Labour Government—is going to wipe that out. They're wiping out all tax regimes that would actually help low to medium income earners get a foot up and start to actually live the life that they want.I look at the health packages that this side of the House this National Party actually put in place for free GP services to those under the age of 13. That's GP services and prescriptions. That's when I start to look at that; this is what this side of the House did. For the first time in 40 years it was this side of the House that increased benefits. The Labour Government has never done that. They have never ever done that for beneficiaries at all. It has never ever been a piece of legislation that the Labour Government has ever done.They say that they are the Government of the people. They are not the Government of the people; they are the Government of their own selves—of themselves. That's who they are. They don't give a toss about the people out there; I can tell you that now. They only want to worry about themselves. They only want to think that they are doing great things when we all know that they're not doing anything for the people out there. And so when I look across there and I see New Zealand First over there and I see the Greens over there I see the Greens say something and I look across at New Zealand First and your smile goes down. It goes down.Then we had last night the paid parental leave—the bill that came in—the first and second readings. Then I look at that and I look at what this side of the House this National Party actually talked about: our new paid parental leave from 18 to 22 weeks. It was done within economic and fiscal boundaries so people could afford it. The risk of having paid parental leave jump up to 26 weeks by 2020 will actually may actually put jobs at risk. It could actually put jobs at risk.One of the areas of that paid parental leave on this side of the House that I want the Labour-led Government to actually think about is around the flexibility part of the package that we had. The flexibility part—the first part was about having both mum and dad at home with the newborn without dad taking annual leave to actually do that. I know because my son had a baby on 22 August and he had to take annual leave to actually stay at home to help out his partner and their new baby. The second part of it is a free dental visit for pregnant women. Because we all know—well actually you men wouldn't know across the other side—women that are pregnant they do lose quite a lot of their calcium and they do have issues with their teeth. So therefore part of the flexibility package was about giving women a free dental visit during their pregnancy.Finally to women and IVF treatments: at the moment they only get two free visits for treatment. We were offering a third free treatment because we do care about children. We are about children. We want to see children live and thrive in this country. That's why we have done so much around protecting the children under the change from Child Youth and Family Service to the Ministry for Vulnerable Children Oranga Tamariki—whose name's going to change. I would like to think that the basis of that ministry will stay the same. I want to see it stay the same because it did target young children that were most vulnerable and at most risk of abuse. You can sit over there and you can laugh about it but those children—and you know as well as I know—they are Māori. They are Māori kids and we've got to look after them. That is our responsibility—all our of responsibility. That's why I want to see the whole infrastructure of the Ministry for Vulnerable Children—or for Children however they want to put it—stay the same with the purpose of having the young people sitting at governance level helping to make decisions helping with decisions and helping to actually recruit staff so it's actually focused on them. So without any further ado I see the clock is actually ticking down and I know Fletcher wants me to carry on but buddy hey—you know? Fletcher Tabuteau: You've got a minute—carry on!JO HAYES: I hear what you're saying: I'm pretty good I know that and I know you love hearing my wonderful voice floating over to you.Anyway I just want to close off. We heard the Prime Minister talk about intentions and all I can say about intentions—and most probably good intentions is where she was coming from—is there is one saying about good intentions and that is: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.Hon Members: Whoo!JO HAYES: Whoo! Yeah. So let's have a look and see what these intentions are going to do. They're nothing. They don't do anything. There is no action in behind that. We are going to see an interesting three years as to what's going to actually happen whether or not these people can actually deliver. I doubt they'll be able to deliver. Thank you.