Nimon Katie; Tuiono TeanauKATIE NIMON (National—Napier): There has been some outrageous crystal ball - gazing from the other side of the House. It is remarkable how many things they think they know when it is not possibly true. Unlike the member who's just sat down the Hon Damien O'Connor I have in fact actually read this document and it outlines some quite amazing things like goals and priorities. Because I can tell you that we are an enabling Government and this Budget Policy Statement sets out really nicely the way that we intend to do what we're going to do.I can tell you that after six years of letting this country go down the tubes it is not going to be fixed in one Budget. So what I'm going to do is talk to each of these points because I think it's important to highlight how we are going to enable this economy to rebuild.So you know what? Goal number one: build a stronger more productive economy. We cannot lift incomes for people if we don't do that. So all of this stuff is miraculous symbolic gesturing because none of it works without a strong economy and we have to do these things to rebuild it. We have to do these things to lift people's incomes to increase the opportunities that we so want. I talk about Wairoa all the time as one of my favourite places in my electorate. I want people to not have to leave Wairoa for those opportunities. They need to have access and that is what we are doing with the priorities in this Budget. The next point is fundamental: efficient effective and responsive public services. None of this stuff is possible if we start sprinkling around money here and there without a focus and a strategy.Tom Rutherford: Spray and walk away.KATIE NIMON: Quite right: Spray and walk away" is a really good point—I'm going to get to some clichés soon.Now most importantly—and we campaigned on this last year and we are absolutely bringing it all in—restore law and order improve health outcomes and educational achievement. None of that is possible if you don't focus on the fundamentals. We have talked at length about this being a "basics brilliantly" Budget—and that is what we are here to do. And to do that you have to restore discipline. You cannot do that by throwing money at everything. All of this stuff is about the fundamentals. We need to restore discipline to achieve those so let's get into the priorities.Meaningful tax reductions. This is all about cost of living relief. Members opposite went on and on about the cost of living.Sam Uffindell: Tax relief.KATIE NIMON: Absolutely. Do you know what? You do that through tax relief and it has not been done for 14 years. Other countries around the world their tax rate adjusts with inflation unlike ours and we're going to do something about it. So you can talk all you like about what you think is going to happen. But actually like I said there is no crystal ball. We will show you in eight sleeps' time and it will be brilliant.Next we have identifying enduring savings. We've talked all the time about these savings that we're going to do and we've been doing. We need to make them last and this is exactly what it is that we are going to do. So what we need to do now is shift the spending to high-value areas.Now I'm going to get to these clichés I was telling you about Tom Rutherford. I could go on all night. Bang for buck; rifle not a shotgun approach; return on investment; spray and walk away—I love that one Tom Rutherford. We need to make sure we are focusing on what gets return on investment; what is going to help Kiwis the most and that is doing the basics right: healthcare education law and order fix the cost of living. We need to get money fed back into people's back pockets and we have been saying it until we're blue in the face. Now is our time to show it.Prudency focus and a high bar for Government funding. All of that stuff is discipline it is focus it is doing the right things first and all of this has to be long term—long term and sustainable. To be long-term and sustainable just like our infrastructure projects we need a pipeline—you cannot plan for infrastructure work without having a pipeline. No one's going to come and invest in New Zealand if we don't show that we've got a plan for 30 years.None of this is ever going to be done if we don't do it basically and do it right. Now that is the point—that if we do this well and we get the basics right we then leave room for those urgent cost pressures and the policy commitments that we have talked about every single day since we've been here. The fundamentals done right allows us to do that and that is what every member opposite has completely omitted in their speeches. The basics allow us to do those extra things that we have been talking about. You spend it all now and there is nothing left to do in the next three years 12 years—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): The member's time is expired."