SpeechDr JIAN YANG (National): With additional money of $50 billion this Budget is the largest in our history. Now our national debt will increase by $160 billion in four years and our deficit will increase by about $100 billion over this—Hon Member: 140.Dr JIAN YANG: No deficit.Hon Member: Oh 106.Dr JIAN YANG: Yeah. Sorry $140 billion for our debt extra debt while $100 billion is our deficit in the next four years. So this is a huge amount of money. We understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our economy and on New Zealanders. So it is therefore necessary to spend more money to support New Zealanders who are struggling and to stimulate our economy. On the other hand we need to understand that this is not free money. Inevitably or eventually we will need to pay it back. So it is important that each dollar is well spent. But this Budget did not have the particular plan to convince us that each dollar is well spent.Well basically we say we have good ideas; we have money. But when you ask for costings when you ask for what this money will achieve we cannot find those details. What is shocking is that not enough is there to support our small businesses. Numerous small-business owners have come to see me complaining about this. They need money cash flow to cover their rent to cover electricity and water bills and other ongoing costs. But there is no particular plan to support them.Now the tourism industry. The tourism industry in our country is particularly important—right? It employs about 400000 people and for the international tourism industry that is again I will say extremely important to our economy. But what have we got for our tourism industry? Four hundred million dollars—$400 million—for a most important industry of our country. And tourism—sometimes tourism sometimes dairy industry—can be the number one exporters of our economy but then just $400 million for our tourism industry.On the same day on Budget day the Tourism Export Council of New Zealand sent a letter to industry to international tourism providers. I quote: the letter says The Budget 2020 announcement today of Government's $400 million plan to help the tourism industry is a sad day for all businesses involved in the international tourism sector. Tourism touches every part of the national economy. The Government has failed the international tourism sector and appears to have given up on an industry that has produced so much for the NZ economy and society." It continues to say "None of the suggestions TECNZ"—Tourism Export Council of New Zealand so TECNZ—"put forward to MBIE to assist businesses has translated with announcements today. Is Government trying to overcomplicate things or are they not listening to the private sector experts in the industry who have been around for decades and know their stuff?" So this is what we hear from particularly the international tourism industry.Another problem with this Budget is that as I said there are no details—right? How the money will be spent and what will be achieved—all these things we cannot really find. As I said they have good ideas—so these are good ideas; this is the money—and as for details wait and see. Take the $400 million for the tourism industry as an example again—right? TECNZ says that they are "immensely disappointed" with the recovery package because it is so unclear how it will tangibly help businesses. It says "The $400 million tourism recovery package has limited or no details around what exactly the two areas of a tourism transition programme and strategic assets protection programme is all about."So there is no tourism plan. They put the "tourism" in bold—"tourism plan". There is no tourism plan attached to it with time frames on when markets will rebound numbers anticipated to treble and the cost it might take to attract visitors back. The recovery package does not help tourism businesses that needed a cash-flow injection to help with commercial rents leases and operating costs—so no details.Well this Government has never shown genuine interest in supporting our tourism industry. With the COVID-19 pandemic we'll expect the tourism industry will need more support from the Government and it will need more data to have more targeted support and also a more targeted better-informed business plan. But you know what? We have no such key data such as hotel occupancy data. We don't have it. Why? Because Stats New Zealand stopped it late last year. So in the months leading up to the pandemic and in the months of the pandemic we won't have data to tell the industry. This is simply because this Government did not put enough money to support the particularly important survey on accommodation occupancy the hotel occupancy survey. Again I would say this Government has never shown genuine interest in our tourism industry and hospitality industry.This will have strong implications to the recovery of the industry. This is a sharp contrast to the previous National Government. When John Key was Prime Minister he was also the Minister of Tourism. Under his leadership New Zealand tourism developed so fast—right? But now we are basically not giving any substantial help to our tourism industry so this is not good at all.It is a rather common practice for this Government to simply throw all the money without well considering the plan. I'll give you another example. Just recently the Government established what it called the international student hardship fund. The Government officials won't do this. They asked international education providers and supporting organisations to apply on behalf of international students. These organisations will have to do a lot of paperwork and they'd have to report back to the Government as to how they spend the money.Each student can have up to $1000 and each provider or organisation can have only $20000 but they have to do a lot of paperwork and they have to assess whether these applications are genuine or not. But it's hard for them to do so because they can't check the financial situation of each individual student. So this puts them in a very awkward position. They can't say no because they can't justify their decision because they can't check the financial situation but on the other hand they can't say just simply yes. They have to say yes to everyone because there's no clear criteria there for these providers to really implement. So this is their plan again. The money's there but no particularly well considered plan. Again this plan was not consulted on beforehand. This is typical of this Government."