Mark RonRON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): It is always good to have a good laugh when we kick-start the week off and that speech provided us with plenty of reason to laugh over on this side. What that speaker Jonathan Young does not understand is that throughout New Zealand what we are seeing and we are seeing it very clearly in this Budget is that this Budget is a Budget that deals with the haves and does not deal with the have-nots. It is a Budget that is going to be renowned and recognised for being focused on the haves as opposed to the have-nots being focused on the need-nots over the needy and it is a Budget about will not" as opposed to "will".I have got one simple message for every speaker in the National Government ranks: speeches like that are not going to cut any ice over the next 5 6 or 7 weeks. The truth will be shown on 23 September as exactly what the people of New Zealand and in particular the regions think of that last speech which I will post.The fact of the matter is that this Government seems to think that it will be judged by the amount of money it is throwing around. This side of the House continually strives to tell the Government that it is not about the dollar figure; it is about the dollar figure in real terms and the real buying power and what the Budget looks like when one factors that in. There is no point in telling people out there be it in Masterton or Taranaki or down in Selwyn "Oh the Government has put in more money—over 4 years—and therefore we are doing great; we are wonderful." because if that was the case then we would not have all these deficits would we? We have got deficits in KiwiSaver because of the money the Government has not put in. We have got a social deficit that is reflected in the homelessness in this country on such a level that we have not seen in our entire history—never. Not under Robbie Muldoon Keith Holyoake Richard Seddon Norm Kirk or Mike Moore—go back as far as you like.Hon Tim Macindoe: Mike Moore? Six weeks?RON MARK: Well says he in a declining seat of his own where his vote is going to drop and his polls are already showing that. I wish they would stop the leaking over there; it is getting all our paperwork wet in New Zealand First.The balance of payments deficit shrinking businesses—the speaker who just spoke is talking about the regions booming. Well clearly he has not been into the Wairarapa because if you go to Infometrics—get away from the Government's spin; get away from what we might say "we" being her Majesty's loyal Opposition. Go to Infometrics. What is it saying about growth in Dannevirke in the Tararua district—1 percent. Jeepers that sounds just like what the Rt Hon Winston Peters has been saying now for 3 years—and I have got to say 3 long years because 3 years with this Government has been exceedingly long. It almost feels like 30.Compliance overload—well that is up. If the Government wants to talk about the things in the Budget that are up the things in the economy that are up it should talk about compliance overload but it does not really want to talk about that because that leads us to talk about small business which is shrinking. Go and have a look at the number of businesses in Dannevirke over the last 12 months 2 years or 3 years. For the Government's information—if for a start it had a decent MP it would know that it is going backwards. This Government does not do anything to address this. This Government is distinctly deficient in promoting supporting developing and enhancing the export sector in particular the value-add. Do you want evidence of that? Look out the window at the Wellington port the piles of logs. Nothing in the Budget incentivises New Zealanders in the forestry sector to keep that timber here to process it here to create more jobs here to add value here and get more money for that export back here. No what it actually does is it promotes the sale of that asset to foreigners and the repatriation of the profits therefrom back to the same country to which they are exporting the raw material.Brett Hudson: Always the nationalisation—always expropriation of assets with you Ron.RON MARK: What's-his-name over there he is chirping away like a galah. He looks like something off The Muppet Show. He can ignore this but he is going to get the very clear message on 23 September. We stand to be judged on these statements right now.Look at health. There is no sense crying about health; go and look at the budgets of the district health boards—deficits. Go and look at Canterbury's—deficits and climbing. There is no point saying we put more money in if the buying power and the value of that money has shrunk and it is not keeping pace with the demand of an increased population which by the way is coming from—Brett Hudson: Higher than inflation so you're wrong there too.RON MARK: No the Government can say all it likes spin it all it likes. If it thinks the population increase is due to Kiwis staying here and not leaving—bull. No one believes that. Everyone knows the net figure—the net figure—is at record heights. End of story—record heights. So we talk about the boom and—between Labour and National we are getting tired of hearing about Auckland let me assure you that but we understand that is where National and Labour want to get their votes from. That is where their thinking is—deeply entrenched in metropolitan New Zealand and those lifestyles ignoring the provinces that generate the wealth ignoring the regions that generate the wealth. Is there anything in there to incentivise them to help them to overcome this plethora of "ninny State" legislation such as the occupational safety and health legislation? Not a jot—nothing—but hey it will be judged on 23 September.Where else are we looking at—oh there is a growth area for this Government in the Budget: corrections. It is building another prison. It is building another prison—well there are some more jobs. We can employ some more of our whanaunga to turn the keys locking people up. Well what that actually says is that the other numbers that are also up like crime; serious fraud; corruption particularly in immigration; bribery; and fraud particularly in the export education sector under this Government—I guess we will have another prison to lock these people up if they ever get caught and if they ever get prosecuted.We know from the other side of this Budget that police resourcing has fallen behind once again. The Police asked—and here is the grab. The Minister Paula Bennett goes on TV and tells everybody that police have got all the resources they need and it is up to the police commissioner to allocate them where he thinks fit.Well what did this Government say to the Commissioner of Police when he put forward a business case for extra officers and the Government cut it? It did not approve it. Did the Government say: "Oh we think you're lying commissioner. We think you're making it up. We think you're just padding out the numbers."? No I actually think that is what the Government did say but what the police commissioner said was: "This is the level of resourcing we need to do our job to stop the flood of P coming into the country to get down on the organised criminals the gangs and to actually get some prosecutions so we don't have to wait for the P to wash up on the beach in Northland you know." I guess that is the sort of policing we are open to now under National. We will just wait for the P to wash up on the beach and then we will claim that it is a great success of the Government.What a load of rubbish. It is a success—the success in that P bust is exactly the same success behind anybody achieving anything in the regions. They are getting on and doing it despite the Government. They are making the best of a bloody bad situation. They cannot wait for the election and they are looking for a Government that is responsive to their needs and a Government that sees that the infrastructure overload on provincial New Zealand is such that they need help and not the pathetic amount that this Budget throws in by the way. They want a Government that actually understands that for police officers—men and women—to be effective in their job they need to be resourced. What an astonishing story that Nicholas Jones published today in the New Zealand Herald. This Government is failing to resource the police so that police can crack down on the sexploitation of our young and our vulnerable on the internet. If there is one thing that finally says this Government is out of touch when it comes to resourcing our police so they can do their job that is surely it."