Russell DeborahDr DEBORAH RUSSELL (Labour—New Lynn): There has been a change—a change in the way that people on the street feel. I feel it when people come up to me and talk to me on the buses in the supermarket and as I walk about my electorate and talk to my constituents. The change they feel is a sense of hope—hope that things will finally get better and that finally they will have a chance to have a decent home that finally their schools will be properly resourced that finally they will have decent healthcare and that finally they have a Government that cares and that is this Labour - New Zealand First Government supported by the Greens—a Government that genuinely cares about real people. And it's a Government that takes action: the extraordinary action of building 3000 new dwellings at the Unitec site in Auckland—some apartments some terrace houses and townhouses all built and planned with green space with great access to transport; a place where we can build thriving communities. At last" people say—"At last we have a chance of a decent home."It's action that's taking place in my own electorate of New Lynn where over the next two to three years another 350 Housing New Zealand Corporation dwellings will be built to help people have a stable secure place to live. That's a lot of people coming to live securely in my electorate and I will be delighted to welcome them because that's what a caring Government does. It ensures that all people have access to decent housing.It's the sort of action we're seeing with the teacher education refresh where experienced teachers are being encouraged to stay in our classrooms. It's the action on the regional fuel tax where instead of just tolerating the snarled roads the poor planning the lack of public transport no busway on the Northwestern Motorway—instead of doing that we're going to take action to ensure that our infrastructure can be properly funded. It's action on tenancy rights—ensuring that tenants are not charged for services that they don't actually need.This is a Government taking action and it's a real change. It's a sense of hope a sense of change from the previous Government—a Government and an Opposition that is now entirely about negativity. They are the say-nothing do-nothing Opposition. They don't want us to do anything in taxation they don't want us to do anything on roads they don't want us to build houses they don't want to get more young people into education; all they want us to do is to expel some imaginary Russian spies. You might think it was funny that all they want us to do is play with imaginary friends except it comes from their time in Government when they were the do-nothing Government—doing nothing in pursuit of some mythical surplus.And where was that do-nothing the worst? It was in health seen at Middlemore Hospital where they did nothing in respect to the repairs and maintenance. It was all a Government of neglect and it's really sad what happened there. You see when the acting CEO of Counties Manukau District Health Board was asked why they had not done the repairs and maintenance—was it in order to stay in surplus?—she said yes: "the whole government [had] expected the health sector to be able to live within its means and to be able to do that we have had to compromise on our capital investment programme." Compromise—compromise our children's health compromise our assets and infrastructure and compromise our future all in respect of some ideological surplus.I want to contrast this to our Government of action—our Government where we have a successful Government in a country where we deliver: a country where we deliver healthcare a country where we deliver education a country where we deliver welfare we deliver housing we deliver infrastructure and we deliver decent living standards. That's the Government we have on this side of the House: a Government that cares about ordinary people and that is why the people in my electorate the people in New Lynn Avondale Blockhouse Bay—they feel a sense of hope."