Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): It's been 112 days since the coalition Government was formed 112 days since change came to our communities and our country 112 days since we left the frustration of the leaky boat of the six years of the previous Labour Government and we can focus on a better and brighter future for our country. My community in Northcote voted for safer communities. They voted for a more prosperous economy better access to health and education and an infrastructure that works. They voted not for promises but for a Government of delivery. From the swing seat of Northcote I want to focus my contribution today on two areas that this Government will deliver on: law and order and the economy.Firstly law and order. The stories I heard while campaigning and doorknocking the streets of Northcote were concerning. A lady got scared when I turned up on her doorstep because she thought I was an intruder. A chap in Birkenhead actually tackled an intruder that came into his home and he couldn't get the police to come out and deal with it. People were concerned with gangs on their street and the issues of youth crime. I want to acknowledge the late Joshua Tasi who in my community was sadly killed by youth in our community. I'd like to acknowledge his family and loved ones and the grief that they're feeling.The hundred days of actions are a start but more needs to be done. In this speech I want to talk about some of the positives that we've done that will make a difference. We have abolished the prisoner reduction target. We have introduced legislation to crack down on gangs give police greater powers to intervene and extend rehabilitation programmes. But there are good things to come in the law and order space. We're going to back our police and make sure there's 500 extra front-line police on our streets in the next two years. We're going to limit the amount of deductions that judges can make to prisoners at sentencing. We're going to deliver youth military academies and we're going to trial one this year which is going to be in Auckland to help give these troubled youth a hand up not a handout. And we're going to restore consequences for crime in this country.The second area that I want to talk about is the cost of living because as the Prime Minister noted today it is the number one issue for our country and for my community of Northcote. I'll never forget the harrowing story I heard of a supermarket worker whose husband took a job in Australia just to pay for the increased mortgage payments that they were facing.Now we've made some progress in this area and within 100 days. We've taken the regional fuel tax off that will save hard-working New Zealanders money at the pump. We have started to reduce the bloated bureaucracy in Wellington and we're axing wasteful projects. We've introduced 90-day trials for all businesses so that they have the flexibility to hire and take on new workers. And we've axed Labour's three waters reform which we know cost this country too much money as well.What will we do? What's coming people's way? Well it is my privilege to say that we will deliver tax relief come the Budget on 30 May and that is coming your way if you're a hard-working New Zealander. We will continue to rein in spending and ask every ministry to go line by line and make sure that they are delivering value for money in their budgets. We will grow the economy and our finance Minister's already articulated a great plan to actually boost growth in our economy because that's how ultimately growing comes: grow the tax base in this country and make all of our communities better off.So in summary change has come we've started on progress but there's more positives to come. I want to end my contribution today with a quote from an iwi leader who I met recently: Robert Edwards. He says as I put it: The past is the past let us learn from it. The future is before us let us prepare for it." Thank you."