Goldsmith PaulHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. My pleasure to speak in this debate and to start with thanking the many people across this building and this institution of Parliament whether it's you Mr Speaker and your team the many people that support us in the Bills Office and the Order Paper deliveries and the cleaners and the security people that keep us safe and the many people that make this a wonderful place to work and an institution that many New Zealanders can be proud of.I want to also thank the many staff. My staff—my one executive assistant here in Wellington—is in Guadalajara I think in Mexico at the moment. I hope he's safe. Hamish I wish you all the best. And the many people that help on the National side to put all our lines and work together I want to acknowledge your hard work this year.It's good to be a New Zealander. It's good to live in this country. We have a great country. We've had some real challenges this year and it is right that we look back and reflect on those who have suffered loss this year and there have been many instances of that but also ongoing through sickness and through traffic accidents and the many challenges that families have faced right across the country. But we also acknowledge there are wonderful things that we have in this country. We're all heading off for summer. I'm looking forward to spending time with my family on the beach around the country and that is the most important part of experiencing wellbeing in this country. It starts in the home and in our loving relationships across our family.And so we're all looking forward to that and we're looking forward to a good break and getting back into an election year next year where we'll hope to drive this Government out of office. Frankly we'd be doing the country a service because we should and we could be doing better in this country.It's easy to forget the highlights of this year. For me it started off in February when I pointed out that Shane Jones for all his talk for all his huffing and puffing could actually only come up with 54 jobs so far out of the Provincial Growth Fund in February which rather annoyed him. But I do have to thank Mr Jones; he's done great things for my career and he provided me very many opportunities at the start of the year. So I'll be grateful to him for that. I'm not sure however that New Zealanders will be so thankful when they consider that $3 billion will have been allocated and we won't see very much for it apart from a few things up in Northland.What about the capital gains? Remember we had that. They were going to bring a transformational change to the tax system in New Zealand and I can remember that for David Parker there wasn't a problem in the world that couldn't be solved by a capital gains tax. It was going to fix everything and he was passionate about it the Prime Minister was passionate about it was what she came into politics for. Grant Robertson was passionate about it. Everybody was passionate about it and yet they just threw in the towel when things got a bit rough. They looked at the polling and decided No we're not going to do that."Then of course we've had KiwiBuild; it was going to solve all the housing problems. If ever there is an example of political hubris then Phil Twyford is it: "Oh yep I'm going to fix it all." and then "Oh no it's all a bit difficult." We're still actually in negative territory on houses built because if you factor in the fact that we've lost 480 houses at Ihumātao that Fletchers were going to build because the Prime Minister blundered in and gave a platform and an opportunity for that group to put up a tent and stop houses being built we're still in negative territory on houses.Then we think of the Treasury leak—don't forget that—the Treasury leak. Remember the botched Budget? We still haven't received—perhaps somebody's missed it I don't know—an apology from the Minister of Finance for smearing us with the hacking of the Treasury Budget. Remember we were supposed to have been there. We were sort of almost in cahoots with the Russians apparently but we hacked in and then it turned out that we just looked at the website and that was the botched Budget of 2019. So it was the first of many fake news elements that came across from that side of the House. The sad reality of that Budget was that there was an enormous amount of money that was spent and so little that we've got from it.To take a country that was growing strongly with surpluses as far as the eye could see opportunities terms of trade our export prices as high as they'd been for a generation—to turn that in two short years into an economy that is growing at less than a third of the speed when you look at per person growth and in deficit in two years is monumental. It's economic mismanagement. This Government I think will have the notoriety of being the first one-term Government in 50 years and it's our job to prosecute that next year. Thank you Mr Speaker."