Ball DarrochDARROCH BALL (NZ First): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. Here's a question that I wonder if anyone could answer. What would you call it when you combine record homelessness—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Can I just remind the member—DARROCH BALL: —what would one call it—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order!DARROCH BALL: Sorry Madam Assistant Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Can I just remind the member—thank you. You know better. Thank you.DARROCH BALL: What would one call it if you combine record homelessness; increased child poverty; record debt; record immigration; underinvestment in infrastructure like health and education; declining police numbers; increased disengaged youth being neets"; increased serious youth crime; increased serious crime in general; 173 biosecurity breaches; overflowing prisons; clogged up courts; underfunding of State houses defence the Department of Conservation and rail; and a massive infrastructure deficit? What would one call it? [Interruption] Oh no. Oh no. Apparently what you call it is a healthy surplus. Apparently what you call it is their healthy surplus. What we've had been hearing over the last week in the Budget speeches from the National Party is all about how on earth this Government is inheriting such a healthy surplus and then have to spend it all at once—we've got to spend it all at once.Well how about if you go and look at the list that I've just read out—that's why. If we go back if we have to look at the list of all the things that I've just read out—the infrastructure deficit and the chronic underfunding of all of the essential services of this country—then perhaps the members on the other side of the House there would understand why their so-called healthy surplus was nothing but a surplus of spin a surplus of spin.The funny thing is that in every single speech that we've been hearing from the National Party and in all the questions in the House everything that they've been complaining about has all been on this list. They're talking and complaining and asking questions about the health sector about the education issues about the police numbers and about the biosecurity breaches or the M.bovis. All they have to do is look in the mirror and understand where those answers come from. It is because of the nine years of chronic underfunding from the National Government.I want to quote Matt Doocey. I don't often do that because I don't want to embarrass him too often. But he said when he got up and he talked about it in his speech that there was something strange about the Budget. There was something not quite right about the Budget—something not quite right.Well the first thing Mr Doocey is that it does feel a little bit different from over that side of the House. I think it's got to do with the acoustics or something perhaps. But that's the first thing. The second thing is I think that some in the National Party have figured out—not all but some in the National Party—that this is a different Budget because this is a true MMP Budget. This is probably if I can say the first true MMP Budget because what we needed to do on this side of the House were little things called collaboration compromise and cooperation. But that side of the House wouldn't have a clue because during their tenure over the last 10 or 11 years they've thrown the bone to a couple of the little smaller parties in the corner and told them to chew it and keep quiet and then the National Party could do what they want. They felt—they didn't know this; they didn't think about it but they felt it because it was a subconscious thing—that it was their Budget. They felt it was a National Party Budget and they'd probably stand up and say that as well right now.What they don't understand and what they and those other smaller parties in that coalition over the last 10 years didn't appreciate was that they were in a coalition or confidence and supply agreement. They were in an MMP environment but the National Party didn't act like that and they are acting the same exact way in Opposition. They still think this is an FPP Budget. That's why they stand up and attack the Labour Party with these so-called broken promises. They don't understand that this is an MMP Budget—an MMP Budget.I liked the comments from a few of the members opposite that call the Government a three-headed monster. What would one call then a National Party United Future Māori Party and ACT Government?Hon Ruth Dyson: Four-headed monster.DARROCH BALL: Four-headed—you see they don't even realise that. They've got no idea what they're talking about. They've got no consideration about what the actual facts are whatsoever.I just want to in my last 20 seconds just say that one of the things that I'm very pleased about this Budget and that I thank the Minister Ron Mark for is the increase finally in the Limited Service Volunteers (LSV) scheme. We will show all of those members over there in the National Party how great a scheme the LSV is. Watch this space."