Bennett PaulaHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National): Well this is a debate and this is the time when I would in general reply to the previous speaker but to change a paraphrase he lost me at Hello". It was to say ineffective and yeah "a bit pitiful" is an understatement. I suppose my message to the Government today is that words really matter—words really matter. Your actions after those words really matter. Saying one thing and actually meaning them—say what you mean mean what you say and Mr Speaker that is the message through you that I put to this Labour - New Zealand First Government.I want to just go through a couple of—I mean there were of course the 100000 houses. We're told that "Absolutely 100000 affordable houses." and I want to put the quote that "Your intention is reality." is what the Prime Minister said. Of course that intention is now a bit harder now they're in Government—Hon Phil Twyford: Where are your houses Paula? Where are your houses in nine years?Hon PAULA BENNETT: —we don't actually see that happening. We're lucky if they'll actually get there. In fact the Minister of Housing and Urban Development is shouting out at me—it's Phil Twyford for anyone that's interested—and he's the one that's recently reannounced developments that National had already got going."We'll plant a billion trees. We will plant a billion trees."—and now of course they're backtracking from it. "Child poverty is most important but however we now have no money in the Budget."But more importantly the Prime Minister said that—and I directly quote—"The victims of the Roast Busters deserved better from the Government." I heard direct quotes from then justice spokesperson in Opposition Andrew Little and he said "If victims aren't coming forward because of fears around giving statements or evidence then let's hear from Ms Collins"—who was the Minister then—"about how she will address that." We had direct quotes from the now Government that when in Opposition said—and I quote—"The public deserves some answers and victims deserve to know the justice system is there to support and protect them." Yet members of their own party have been in frankly a sickening and callous decision to avoid any scrutiny by trying to deal with serious allegations of sexual assault by internalising complaints and not directly sending them to police. And that in my opinion and in the opinion of this side is that words mattered when they were in Opposition but no action was taken when it was in their very own backyard under very serious allegations.We saw in recent weeks that allegations were made around Russell McVeagh and things that may or may not have been happening in their workforce and we had Government Ministers who were pretty keen and pretty quick to wade into that and to have opinions actually on how they handled it. In fact we had direct quotes that criticised them in appointing their own reviewer. So Andrew Little as the Minister of Justice said he criticised them for appointing their own reviewer not referring it to the police and he also levelled comments at the Law Society for its inaction after eventually learning of the allegations. However the very next week we saw the Prime Minister's own party actually appoint their own reviewer—not refer something in to the police until such pressure came on them publicly to do so.As I say words matter; your actions matter when it comes to matters of this. I think that the Labour - New Zealand First Government has been found wanting in what has happened in the last few weeks and should be ashamed of how they have treated these young people of their lack of action afterwards and that they want to get on with it. We hear a lot from this Prime Minister about how vulnerable children are the main focus but when it came to children being made vulnerable under their very own watch it was only when they were found out publicly that we have now seen something happen and something happen for those very vulnerable children that quite frankly deserved more from a Government."