Goldsmith PaulHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. We're all living in an age of great uncertainty. We look around the world and we see different countries responding in different ways. We don't know whether this virus will come back harder. There's a lot of uncertainty out there and the Prime Minister today talked about rolling the dice and not wanting to roll the dice by coming out of lockdown too soon. But the point that Simon Bridges made—and we will continue to make—is that lots of people are having to roll the dice every day. Employers are having to decide whether they want to keep going whether they're going to battle on or whether they're going to give up whether they're going to keep hiring people or whether they're going to let them go—not to mention the many people who have got real heath issues such as cancer and they're rolling the dice every day when they don't know whether they can get in front of a doctor and get their thing sorted. So that's just the reality of a difficult situation but what we need is the Government to lead us out of this into the future with success and there is a real sense out there continuing that the Government has worked hard on the health side but has failed to really appreciate the extent of the trouble that particularly small business is facing. We've heard the infamous comments from Deborah Russell that maybe they shouldn't be in business in the first place but even just this week we heard from the Prime Minister that private sector people should be generous like the Government when it comes to a whole lot of things. It was failing to recognise that the Government just takes the money through the tax system and they don't have to go out and persuade customers to buy their products in order to pay the bills and keep afloat. That is the sort of absolute disconnect that we see across the other side of the House of the realities of surviving in business in an incredibly difficult world of zero revenues for seven weeks and how difficult that is.So there's no question that this country has got itself into a big hole when it comes to the economy and no Government in the world could have avoided real economic challenges because of this global pandemic. But the two real questions that are relevant going forward are: are we making the hole bigger than we need to and secondly who can get us out of it best? There's no question in my mind that we are making it bigger than we need to and we've got to be very careful about that and we've got to be very careful about how the Budget works next week and how quickly we get out of lockdown. And secondly there's no doubt in my mind that the National Party under Simon Bridges' leadership is best placed to lead us out of this economic hole. National's done it in the past when we added $50 billion to the debt during the global financial crisis and when we dealt with the Canterbury earthquakes and we got back on track. Within a few years we restored the economy got back into surplus were growing and did a good job and we can do it again if we get the opportunity. Yesterday Simon Bridges outlined our plan. There's five points to it that will get us back on track. The first is getting out of lockdown as soon as we can. The second is reducing the amount of damage to small business in New Zealand and saving jobs by getting cash in their hands. Small businesses—right now they don't need more debt. It doesn't matter how cheap it is they don't need more debt. They're frightened of that. What they need is some cash in their hands and we came up with a plan to do that.We also recognise that not all businesses are on their knees but there are some that have got through this. They've got money and we need them to drive the growth to get us back on track. That's why we came up with the business investment accelerator which is making it easier for businesses to invest in plant machinery and new things to get more productive and get cracking.Third we've got to make sure that we're productive in this 2-metre world. I saw some statistics coming out from the Reserve Bank today suggesting that under level 3 Government was back to 90 percent of activity. If anybody believes that—I mean they're out of their mind. Productivity is not at 90 percent in the Public Service at the moment because half of them are at home and they can't even access their laptops and it certainly wouldn't be 90 percent at Auckland Council. They're not doing any resource consents at the moment hardly. So the 2-metre world and how we arrange that—whether it's clunky and rule-based and everything in triplicate and a manual system and over the top—will mean we'll be highly unproductive for a very long period of time with huge economic consequences. If we do it well we'd do a much better job.Then we've got to unlock the power of the private sector and we've talked about the difference of philosophy between one where Shane Jones and Phil Twyford—if ever there was anybody who was shovel-ready it was Phil Twyford and Shane Jones is probably second. Having them decide what the new venture and what the new world will look like and where we should focus is a recipe for disaster. It's the people we trust—the National Party trusts small-business people and families to make decisions about where they will invest and how they will grow and how they'll get back on their feet again and that's the best way to drive growth in this country. Thank you very much.