Barry Maggie; Rurawhe AdrianHon MAGGIE BARRY (National—North Shore): Thank you very much Mr Assistant Speaker. Well Budget 2018. Despite the protests the shouting and the belligerence of the other side we don't believe them. This is a bad Budget. We heard Willie Jackson shouting and bellowing. Shouting about it Willie Jackson doesn't make it so. It might've on Radio Live but it doesn't cut it here. Patronising platitudes that we don't know Māori—well what a delusional zone that member's living in. What a lot of blather and nonsense about values from Dr Deborah Russell the member who just resumed her seat.Let's have a good look at this Budget shall we? After it's very flat delivery—and I notice they're getting very shouty over on the other side of the House—how will this coalition Budget their first one actually be remembered? Let me count the ways. Some have described it as an epic fail—that's quite kind I thought. Our National leader Simon Bridges said it was a classic Labour effort of old: big spend big tax big borrow and hope. Bernard Hickey a journalist called it the biggest missed opportunity in a generation." My eloquent colleague the Hon Amy Adams earlier described it somewhat whimsically but I thought very accurately as the "dowry Budget" to prop up the marriage of convenience for the cost of doing business with Winston Peters which is a not inconsiderable cost—a billion dollars here a billion trees there slush funds and really attractive horses and fillies. Who knows where the lack of substance will lead us? I know I'm not backing that team.But it is very apparent from the coalition divvy up which of the partners is the most powerful—I mean New Zealand First cut the Greens' lunch. The very weak Minister of Conservation had said she would double the budget for the Department of Conservation. Well that didn't work out. It hasn't delivered a darned thing except to put our most vulnerable species closer to the brink of extinction.I'm more concerned as the spokesperson for seniors at this time in looking at the Budget to find out what this Budget actually delivered for vulnerable New Zealanders. I looked and I looked; it was nowhere to be found. Ching-ching—the unwise people who backed New Zealand First got plenty of pay-offs. The older people in New Zealand the ones who are vulnerable and who are being abused in terms of elder abuse—financially psychologically and physically—they got nothing. There was absolutely nothing that Labour delivered of its promises. The aged care commissioner—a lot of big talk on the campaign trail about having to have one to represent seniors—didn't happen. The Minister for Seniors again was missing in action.Dementia I think was probably one of the most disappointing—Alzheimer's New Zealand said it included no enhanced specialist dementia services. Why not? This is a group of people—more than 60000 of us now in New Zealand are estimated to be living with dementia. That number is set to triple to more than 170000 by 2050 by which time—actually the recent economic report that was put together by Alzheimer's New Zealand said that the annual cost of dementia and its care in New Zealand will be about $5 billion. That's 170000 people requiring a great deal of help. As Alzheimer's New Zealand said we need to put that investment in now. We need to do it or the vulnerable will suffer and that's what this Labour Government with its coalition members propping it up has delivered—nothing to the vulnerable.Let's look at palliative care. That is something that you know the Justice Committee is considering at the moment. Why do we need to consider euthanasia when we need to be putting money into decent palliative care that will be delivered wherever and whenever people need it in this country? That's the kind of warm-hearted response and sensible finger-on-the-pulse response that I would have expected from a Government who understood what vulnerable New Zealanders were going through.I think that when we look at what health got in this Budget and see what we would have done if National had been in Government it would have been a far different outlook. When we look at the vulnerable and the way that we have as a Government in the past enshrined their needs and looked after them I feel that we really are in a position where we can look across the House and call them out for what they are which are heartless people not in touch with the vulnerable communities around New Zealand uncaring and unfeeling. Whether they're Māori elders with dementia—I see Willie Jackson looking up there looking quizzical as well you might because your Government did nothing whatsoever to help these people. Māori also missed out big time in this Budget and I feel that New Zealanders are really grasping the lack of substance and the flimflam that accompanies most every utterance from this Government.I feel that this Budget represents the Government: it is disappointing it is an epic fail and it could do better—much better. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi—five minutes."