McAnulty KieranHon KIERAN McANULTY (Minister for Emergency Management): Thank you Mr Speaker as I wait for the smattering of claps after that appalling speech—a shocking speech actually. If that is the future of National Party I don't think this side of the House has anything to worry about. No wonder that member lost his seat. What a shocker! He had five minutes to outline to the country what his party is going to do for New Zealand and he didn't give us jack. He didn't give us one little bit of policy. He can't dispute that; we all listened to the speech. It is a fact. Not one policy not one indication of what they want to do for New Zealand. All they did was prove the point that the Hon Megan Woods and the Hon Nanaia Mahuta said in their contributions: that they are utterly negative. All they do is bring people down and try and drag the reputation of the country down to try and bring the mood of the country down so that people will think Maybe it is time for a change."Well the question is: a change to what? A change to a party that's platform is simply to roll back what this Government is doing—Hon Mark Mitchell: Absolutely.Hon KIERAN McANULTY: —to roll back the support for workers to roll back—and Mr Mark Mitchell who hasn't done a successful point of order in the five years that I've been in Parliament says "absolutely" confirming the point that I'm making: that they do not stand for workers. They do not stand for small businesses. They do not stand for rural communities. Everything that this Government has done for the betterment of this country Mr Mark Mitchell has confirmed—on behalf of his party—that they will roll it back. There are workers in this country—minimum wage workers—who are $250 a week better off because of this Government. Every single time we brought in a measure to look after workers they voted against it. There are sole parents in this country who are nearly $200 better off a week and they voted against it. They voted against the winter energy payment which elderly people in this country are fully dependent on to keep them warm in the winter and they have ruled out confirming it to the country. So make no mistake the ACT Party are going to get rid of it. Any future Government that involves the ACT Party is going to get rid of the winter energy payment and the National Party have refused to commit to it. So every person that is dependent on the pension in this country will know that a vote for National or ACT will mean a reduction in what they receive. It is only a matter of a couple of weeks after that—Andrew Bayly: They will get a tax cut.Hon KIERAN McANULTY: They are saying that you will get a tax cut. Yeah 100 bucks a week—sorry 100 bucks a year. A hundred dollars a year: $2 a week—$2 a week. Andrew Bayly paints himself as the saviour to senior citizens. Just because he is one doesn't mean he's their saviour. Two dollars a week will mean nothing and it is certainly nothing compared to what this Government has done for our most vulnerable people in this country.Instead they want to scaremonger. They want to start division in this country by talking about "one person one vote". Well I have got one question. Their leader owns property in Auckland and Wellington and at the last local body elections got more than one vote. How is that one person one vote? Do they care about it? No. Do they want to scaremonger because it involves Māori? Absolutely. So let's just roll into what it is that they're actually trying to talk about and the affordable water reforms is a perfect example. For 4½ years they have scaremongered they have whinged and they have moaned. They have said it's asset theft. They have said all sorts of stuff. They finally come up with a policy and what is it? The status quo.Four years of whingeing and they come up with the status quo completely ignoring the fact that this country needs to find $185 billion. Completely ignoring the fact that councils have said they can't do it by themselves and completely ignoring the fact that there is clear evidence to show that unless we reform this fundamentally ratepayers especially those in small rural councils will face bills that they cannot afford. But have you noticed one thing? They are not talking about that because they know they can't win that argument. In fact they know they have lost. Every single time I've asked them to produce their numbers they've gone quiet.What do they talk about? Racial division and scaremongering about Māori and scaremongering and redefining what commitments the Crown made in Te Tiriti o Waitangi; ignoring the truth. Just because something is inconvenient doesn't mean it isn't true. That's what they want to talk about because they know deep down that what New Zealanders care about are bills that they can afford and keeping rates down and they can't compete. Nothing they've said adds up because they won't produce their numbers for one simple reason: they don't have them or they don't add up. How's that being up front to New Zealand?"