Kaye Nikki; Rurawhe AdrianHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): I'm pleased to speak in this debate but firstly can I acknowledge the speech by Michael Wood. Isn't it telling that half of his speech was dedicated to bagging the Leader of the Opposition rather than talking about what's actually in the Prime Minister's speech? And why was that? The reason for that is that actions speak louder than words and it is incredibly telling that in Jacinda Ardern's state of the nation speech what is she saying? This is going to be the year of delivery." Well newsflash to Labour: you have been in Government for 15 months. It's not OK to wake up almost halfway through your term and not accept that you will be held accountable for what you have or have not delivered. I want to address what Michael Wood has just said about well-being. I'll tell you what well-being looks like. Well-being looks like answering to the person whose rent has gone up by $40 a week and to the family who is paying $20 extra a week for fuel—they know what well-being is. They know that that extra hour or that extra hour or two that they are not going to be with their families is because they're having to pay higher fuel taxes. The exporter who is deeply worried about the relationship with China—this stuff matters. So we don't want to get a lecture on this side about what well-being means when the Government is doing a range of things that actually really hurt families and a classic example of that that was mentioned in the latter half of that member's speech was the tax cuts. He constantly said "We cancelled the tax cuts that would give to a few." Well what we know on this side of the House is that three-quarters of families were worse off as a result of those tax cuts. So look I thought that I would dedicate a little bit of my speech to talk about what the Government is actually delivering. I'll tell you what the Government is actually delivering and I call this "Let's not do this but let's review this". So what we have are more than 200 working groups. That is at least $190 million. That really really matters. We know that the Government wasn't experienced. We know that they didn't have a policy plan. But we have a Government that is absolutely strangled in reviews at the moment and that affects the delivery of policy for New Zealanders. We also know that they have played a blame game in terms of National. Every second statement is a crisis. Every second statement references National's record in Government. We know that they're trying to erase the Canterbury earthquakes and the global financial crisis. Look again we are 15 months in and I don't believe that that is going to cut it this year. The Government actually needs to start delivering in a range of areas. But the reality is—what people are saying to us—is that in all of their flagship areas they are failing. They came into Government with huge aspirations around housing—of building 100000 houses in 10 years—and I want to acknowledge Judith Collins in this. She has completely demolished Phil Twyford in demonstrating that it is not KiwiBuild; it is "KiwiFlop". Now do we all want to do better in terms of housing? Absolutely. But it is unacceptable to not take responsibility for the fact that instead of a thousand houses in terms of the target I think we're in a couple of hundred territory. But there is no way that the Labour Government are going to meet their targets in terms of housing. So we have a situation where not only is the Government strangled with reviews and still blaming National but a key flagship policy which they went out there and absolutely sold to a whole lot of young people is failing. There is another area that we know that they are failing in and that is again the huge promises to the regions—a $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund. How is it—how could it possibly be—that as the Leader of the Opposition has said Shane Jones has become the "Minister for Wellington" and we have a situation where you have 54 jobs and to every job we have two bureaucrats? There will be regions that will hold this Government to account in terms of that $3 billion in promises. Again we hear a lot about well-being but the reality is that if your economy is failing and you have an additional 10000 people in unemployment then how is their well-being going if they are now on the dole? The reality is we are hearing complete—and again I have to be a bit careful in the House and I can only use certain words—spin from this Government in terms of the economy. We know that we have had a situation where business confidence is tanking. I'm the member for Auckland Central. It's not OK for the Prime Minister to make statements that aren't true. Business confidence has dropped investor confidence is at a two-year low unemployment is up by 10000 and we have a situation where people have additional taxes like fuel taxes and it's not OK in terms of the PM making economic claims that more families will benefit from the Government's Families Package when you have a situation where three-quarters are in fact worse off. It's not OK for the Prime Minister to make statements like "Wages are rising faster than the cost of living." when the reality is the labour cost index grew at 1.9 percent in the last 12 months—exactly the same rate as inflation. This is a Government of spin. They have woken up nearly halfway through their term their major flagship policies are failing and the only thing that they can do is either bag the Opposition and still play the blame game or literally try and spin their way out of it. Let's go through the rest of their flagship policies. When it comes to education we have a situation here where we've got 18 reviews in education. We've had huge ideology. We've seen Chris Hipkins literally spend the first year of his time in office dismantling everything that National did from national standards—gone—to partnership schools which actually—[Interruption]—for those members that are making comments helped a whole lot of vulnerable young people. Communities of online learning—scrapped. Cohort entry—again changed. Now we have these Tomorrow's Schools proposals and again National has said that we are happy to work on things where they make sense in terms of education. But what we're not happy to do is centralise our system and put a whole lot of power away from parents and into the hands of bureaucrats. Again we're seeing a bit of a pattern here—Shane Reti will be talking about this tomorrow—but this idea of a typical nanny State Labour Government trying to centralise and take power away from communities is certainly a hallmark of education. Again we have this inexperienced Government that has major policies flailing. We have them basically reverting to spin. On this side of the House what we are trying to do is make sure that we get around New Zealand. We're going to be delivering eight discussion documents in terms of policy. We believe that ultimately if that side of the House is not going to do this then we're going to have to actually. It's going to be National that is going to have to do this for New Zealand because we have a situation where Labour are literally trying to spin their way through Government. We also have a situation where they are one of the most lack-of-transparency Governments that we have had. Again I would call this "Let's hide this." We saw this with two Ministers going down last year. But when all of us get our Official Information Act requests we will see that they are the least transparent Government that we have ever had.Again on this side of the House we're not going to take any lectures around well-being because we know there are a range of New Zealanders that are struggling. What well-being means to them is their fuel prices being lower. It means their rent not being as high. It means that they don't have additional taxes whether it's tourism taxes or capital gains taxes. It actually means funding education rather than putting money into officials or into bureaucracy. The reality is that this is a Labour Government that has reverted to type has only just woken up and is still working on its policy. I don't think that New Zealanders are going to see that as good enough particularly in a situation where the economy is tanking and where we have major issues around business confidence unemployment investor confidence and now obviously this situation in terms of China.Again we don't want to be negative. We are out there on the ground working on policy and ensuring that we have the best ideas possible to win next year. But I would argue that what we on this side of the House need is for this Government to finally do something. Let's do something Labour because people are struggling and it's not good enough to spin your way out of major failure in terms of policy.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I understand this is a split call—five minutes."