Faafoi KrisKRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): I want to give the member who just resumed his seat Craig Foss some credit—not a lot; just a little bit—because after that 10 minutes it is clear to see that he is tired and out of fresh ideas. He has taken it upon himself to remove himself from the House. On September 23 we will be sending some of his other colleagues out of this place when we have a change of Government. I am really looking forward to that because if you are a young couple who is trying to scrape together a deposit for a house who has an aspiration to buy a house—because that is what most Kiwi couples want to do—this Budget is completely bereft of anything substantial for them.The Minister said: Where's the aspiration gone"? Well the aspiration for most Kiwis is still there. They want to be able to buy a house. They want to be able to have a shelter over their heads for them and their families. But if they were looking for this Budget to deliver anything for them well there is nothing there for them. That is why this Budget is a complete and utter failure. It is hush money for people out there to try to make the issues—the fundamental issues around health housing and education—disappear.But the Government is taking New Zealanders for dummies. New Zealanders know that this Government has had 9 years to do something about housing and this Budget has done nothing for them. They know that this Government has had 9 years to do something about health and this Budget has nothing for them. It is smoke and mirrors. The public knows that this Government has had 9 years to do something about education yet their children are still going to schools that are overcrowded and there is no long-term plan to do anything about it. I call this a "Specsavers Budget"—"Should've gone to Specsavers"—because there is no vision at all. That is what this Budget is. If you are looking for a solution for your family to be able to take that step into the first-home market well there is nothing here for you. That is where I think this Government has made the ultimate failure in this Budget.What is there in housing? I think there is room for only 1200 houses in Auckland when I understand it needs 40000 a year. Twelve hundred—that is all this Government has got. It is woefully inadequate. If this Government thinks that a little sugar hit now is going to make a big difference to those families who want to buy and own a home then it "Should've gone to Specsavers". That is the issue that some of the people who Mr Foss was talking about are really concerned about. It is not just those young couples; it is their parents who are having to fork out the deposits for their children. Or it is the grandparents of those young couples who are forking out deposits for their grandchildren just so they can have a shot at the Kiwi Dream. I think that if they were looking at this Budget to have some hope—for those who want to buy a house or hope to help their children or hope to help their grandchildren—there is nothing in it for them.The other issue I wanted to talk about was health. My colleague and friend David Clark asked the Associate Minister of Health today about what was in this Budget for mental health. Again the answer is "not a lot". Realising that there is a crisis in mental health the Government has sprinkled $50 million on an issue that is much bigger than that and if you look at the detail it has actually provided only $25 million. There is another $25 million that the district health boards (DHBs) themselves have to provide from within their already tight budgets. We are talking about DHBs that said to the Government and the health Minister that they needed about $650 million just to keep up with inflation pressures and population increases. And what did the Government stump up for them? The answer is well not enough by quite a lot—just $400 million. So the health system is short about quarter of a billion dollars of what it needs to deliver and just to stay still.My biggest concern about that is around mental health because I am sure most MPs are hearing from their communities the massive difficulties with mental health that are happening in communities. My electorate is Mana. It used to have the old Porirua Hospital on site. It is not there any more. But as a result of history there are still a lot of families in my community who are still dealing with decades of mental health problems. There is also up the Kāpiti coast an outfit called Te Ara Korowai which has had its budget funding cut. There is also up the Kāpiti coast in the Kāpiti youth services a small organisation that helps young teenagers in Kāpiti to deal with not just sexual health issues but also mental health issues and the people there are scratching away every year just to stay afloat.This Government is starving them not only of the money but also with the administration to get their hands on the money just to stay alive. And that is not a Government with vision to make sure our young people are the best that they can be; that is a penny-pinching Government that does not realise what is going on in the community and is not meeting the mental health needs of youngsters. That is going to have a huge effect on those young people as they get older and we need to deal with those issues now.In education this Government is also telling one story out of one side of its mouth but the reality is completely different. In my electorate there are three schools that are absolutely packed to the gunnels. It is Rangikura School it is Paremata School and it is Papakōwhai School.Grant Robertson: Overcrowded.KRIS FAAFOI: They are overcrowded and they are in need of some help but the Government has been completely missing in action in that conversation. And that is not surprising because again the Government has underfunded the education sector for the pressures that it is facing by about $80 million.It does not take an Einstein—and I am sure there is not one over there—to realise that if you are underfunding the education system by $80 million it is going to have an effect. It is going to have an effect. And it is happening because of overcrowded schools and the kind of impact that is having on those schools and those children and those communities and that is happening in my community.This is a "Specsavers Budget" because there is no vision. If the Government did just one thing it should have taken a really strong approach around housing. In my area there is a patch of land on the Castor Loop. This Government demolished about 50 or 60 homes on that pot of land about 7 years ago. In my last 2 minutes I just want to talk about this pot of land. This Government said it was going to replace those homes for the low-income families that it displaced. Well that pot of land now looks like a park. There has been 7 years of inaction because the Government does not have any vision when it comes to helping low-income families with housing—none whatsoever. It cannot even confirm to the House that the homes that it wants to build in this Budget are going to be affordable.So we really do need a fresh approach. I am going to put this speech on Facebook later and I want people out there to think about the kind of Government and kind of Budget this really is. Is it a Budget that is going to help deal with some of the fundamental issues like whether people have a roof over their head whether someone in their family who has mental issues is going to be looked after and whether their kids are shoved into classrooms like sardines? That is the reality of what is going on out there.Do not take the Government's spin that this is good for families; it is not. For high-income earners like me—I get $1000. For those on the lowest of incomes I think it is about $200 max.Hon Maggie Barry: The member should give it away to charity.KRIS FAAFOI: Why do you not give it away?Hon Maggie Barry: Why don't you?KRIS FAAFOI: Ha ha! Give it away full time Maggie. Ha ha! Just give it away.This is a Budget that is bereft of ideas and vision in the most important areas of health housing and education. I want people to think about that when they cast their vote on 23 September because it is time for a fresh approach."