Ross Jami-Lee: Debate on Prime Minister’s StatementText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRoss Jami-Lee: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement[Sitting date: 12 February 2015. Volume:703;Page:1564. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JAMI-LEE ROSS (National—Botany):It is very good to be back in the House after the summer adjournment. It is good to be back with my caucus colleagues who are right behind our leader the Prime Minister of New Zealand a Prime Minister who is achieving good things for New Zealanders and is seeing a country that is much better off than it was 6 years ago after 9 years of a dreadful period of Government led by the Labour Party.If anyone was listening to the debate this afternoon on the Prime Minister’s statement they could be led to believe that Labour was sitting there just before an election ready to take over rejuvenated and united behind its leader. Those of us who have been watching politics for more than just the last hour realise that that is not the case at all. We heard Annette King talking about a tired Government that needed to rejuvenate and was a bit arrogant in her view. The thing about Annette King is that she has seen that many times before—and not just at the end of the 2008 period of the Labour Government. She also saw that back in the 1980s when the Labour Party during her first time around was at exactly the same point. Annette King likes to talk about a tired Government because she has been part of so many tired Governments. So I think she is talking about her own team when she talks about a tired set of members of Parliament.Then we heard from Mr Lees-Galloway. Mr Lees-Galloway was telling us that Labour has been having another barbecue season. He was quite open about it very open about it—another barbecue season. The interesting thing about the barbecue season he spoke about was that he talked to only four people at the barbecue. The four people he talked to at the barbecue were the four people who think Andrew Little is a good leader of the Labour Party. We know—we know for a fact—that Andrew Little has only four members of his party in his caucus supporting him. Tony Abbott is actually more popular than that in his party at the moment. Andrew Little is struggling for support. Mr Lees-Galloway was also sporting a beard. The last person who went away over summer and came back with a beard was David Cunliffe. I know that Mr Lees-Galloway was a sycophant of David Cunliffe so maybe there is another leadership coup coming round the corner.Then we heard David Shearer the man who came from the UN with strong human rights credentials standing up in the House and arguing about John Key’s desire to see New Zealand potentially help those who are facing human rights grievances around the world. David Shearer has now abandoned his human rights credentials. He no longer believes that New Zealand has a part to play. I actually used to have a lot of respect for David Shearer and I am starting to question whether that respect was properly founded.I am part of the National Party because I believe we need to grow wages in this country and we need to get more people into jobs in this country. I believe that more children need access to education and I believe that more children and older people should get access to the operations and the health services they need. We also need to see more people getting access to housing in this country. Those are the things that this Government is delivering for New Zealanders.I found it very interesting that the Labour leader liked to talk in his state of the nation speech just after the summer period about jobs and wages—something that Labour has apparently woken up to. The interesting thing about that is that National is delivering more jobs for New Zealanders. National is delivering higher wages for New Zealanders. In the last year 80000 New Zealanders got into work. They came off the dole queue came out of unemployment came out of training and got jobs—80000 more people. Average wages are also up and going faster than inflation. New Zealanders are wealthier. More New Zealanders are in jobs.We are delivering on exactly the things that Andrew Little thinks Governments should be delivering on. In fact I saw his speech as a bit of a vote of confidence apart from the fact that he has created a job for Mr Grant Robertson to go around and set up a commission because he is looking a bit bored at the moment. You have got to give your leadership opponents an opportunity to do something else and that is what is happening with Mr Robertson. But we are delivering. We are doing what New Zealanders want. We have the support of New Zealanders. When Labour talks about the National Party looking after its mates the thing about it is that we have got so many mates around the country. We are looking after them. We are looking after all New Zealanders. That is why I am proud to be on this side of the House.