Bridges SimonHon SIMON BRIDGES (Leader of the Opposition): Thank you Mr Speaker. I want to start by thanking the cleaners the presiding officers—including yourself Mr Speaker—the Clerk's Office the Hansard Office the Bills Office the Table Office the catering staff who serve us and help us so well the security team the messengers the library and the IT teams and my staff who do a fantastic job the National Party headquarters and members of Parliament. This year I got hold of Santa's naughty and nice list; I found it on the Treasury website actually after Santa asked Grant Robertson to take good care of it and make sure it doesn't leak!So on to the list and what is on it. Jacinda Ardern: she's on the nice list; in fact she's probably on the cover of it because she says lots of very nice things.Winston Peters the oldest naughty there is: he's on the naughty list obviously as well. Maybe he's actually on the Electoral Commission's naughty list as well. But we'll see how that goes next year Mr Peters.Santa doesn't actually have a clue about Kelvin Davis—mind you neither does he; he spent most of this year avoiding question time on witness protection I think is where that's been.Phil Twyford: you're on the naughty list because if you can't build a single house or a single road Santa's not giving you a single present!David Clark: he's opted out. He doesn't like having lists or targets actually that's sort of where he's at.Iain Lees-Galloway—Hon Iain Lees-Galloway: Ha!Hon SIMON BRIDGES: —he's naughty—well there he goes again. He'll do anything to get in my video! He's clearly on the naughty list for giving a convicted drug smuggler residency. But he's nice because every time he opens his mouth our 17-year-old William Wood gets more votes.Stuart Nash: naughty list for not doing his rego. Come on mate.Kris Faafoi: naughty list for obvious reasons. Whānau whānau bro!Willie Jackson: he's on the nice list for giving me a boost and downgrading his own Prime Minister on TV a week or so back.Duncan Webb: he's on the naughty list because eating kiwis is never OK.Tracey Martin: she is definitely—oh no she's very interested—on the nice list for her quality—[Interruption]—no this is a serious one actually—Facebook videos. I've got 32 social media staff and I can't do that; you know it's every single day.Dr Deborah Russell—doctor: she'll be on the good list. She'll be in a state of eudaimonia this Christmas. That's E-U-D-A-I-M-O-N-I-A.Clare Curran's on the nice list. She's seen the writing on the wall and she's pulling stumps. We wish her well.Andrew Little: he's on—well actually Santa had him on the nice list until Winston decided we'd need a referendum to decide so he's going to have to wait until next Christmas to find out.Julie Anne Genter: I don't want to miss out Julie Anne Genter. We're going to put you on the nice list as a thanks in advance for dropping your punitive car tax. Thank you so much Julie Anne Genter.Marama Davidson: she's on the naughty list for trying to reclaim the c" word. Well they're going to have to try harder reclaiming the "d" word: delivery. Let's remember what the Prime Minister said at I think it was the start of this year 2019: "2019 is now the year that a lot of delivery um will be required of us and is actually already under way. So whether it's for instance our child wellbeing strategy um of course our housing programme across community housing Housing New Zealand and KiwiBuild the receipt of the Tax Working Group and all the work that falls away from it." Well what work hasn't fallen away from it this year? By any measure this Government has failed to deliver on its promises in 2019. After Treasury predicted—surgery that too—surpluses as far as the eye could see in just two short years we're back in deficit. That's not just a broken promise; that's rank incompetence by this Government. The economy has slowed down we've seen basically a halving of growth and monthly job growth is down almost 70 percent. By the end of this term when Phil Twyford should have been delivering 16000 houses what is it? Not 300 from KiwiBuild. Cost of living has increased sharply with Kiwis paying more tax at the pump with rents rising—and they don't like this one and they won't acknowledge it in the House—$55 a week and food getting more expensive. Seven out of nine child poverty indicators have gone backwards under this Government and the Christchurch City Mission said things are much much worse now than they were under National. Literally not a single infrastructure project has started under this Government. For all their talk and bluster about a new infrastructure package there is no detail and barely any spending in this term of Government. The only person dressed in red who will deliver this year is Santa Claus.Labour cannot deliver on its promises; 2019 has though I'm pleased to say been a year of delivery for the New Zealand National Party. We have released 10—10—discussion documents with over 700 proposals commitments and questions. [Interruption] Well they're getting very excited over there and I can tell why: it's the only policy we've seen this year—it's literally the only policy we've seen in 2019. Just some of those commitments: no new taxes—no new fuel tax and no regional fuel tax in Auckland; creating a primary sector visa to help provide workforce certainty for employers in the primary sector; we'll reopen charter schools and reduce classroom sizes thanks to Nikki Kaye; we will keep our communities safer and disrupt and harass gangs every single day—take that Strike Force Raptor Iain Lees-Galloway—we'll reform the Resource Management Act and actually build some house; we'll repeal the oil and gas ban the industrial law changes and the new overseas investment Act rules; we'll introduce roadside drug testing and build safer roads; and we will reinstate public sector targets to drive better outcomes for New Zealanders; and we will set up a truly independent cancer agency and fund more lifesaving cancer drugs.Whether it be Paul Goldsmith on how we will grow opportunities for New Zealanders or whether it's Nikki Kaye on how we will give our kids a world-class education Mark Mitchell on holding offenders to account and putting victims first Scott Simpson on how we protect and enhance New Zealand's environment or Louise Upston on how to get people out of a cycle of dependency National has done the work in Opposition so that we don't have to set up 300-plus working groups and committees. Hon Member: How many? Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Three hundred and about half a billion dollars. We have done the work now so that if we have the privilege of governing next year we can hit the ground running. Next year New Zealanders will have a very clear choice: a choice between a Government that only two years in is tired out of ideas and in just two short years has taken a whopping great surplus as far as the eye can see and turned it into a $1 billion deficit on Kiwis' credit cards or a Government that has the ideas the track record of delivering and the ambition to see New Zealand better—much better—than it is now. New Zealanders can't afford this Government. We are ready. Bring it on."