Bishop Chris; Mallard TrevorCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Congratulations to the new Minister Poto Williams and thank you for your service as Assistant Speaker. I also want to congratulate the Black Caps. I was going to say they took some inspiration from the much maligned and defamed parliamentary cricket team but unlike the parliamentary cricket team they actually won a game in the United Kingdom. They did extremely well and they deserve all the plaudits alongside the mighty Silver Ferns. Well relentlessly positive didn't really last very long did it? What we've heard so far this afternoon from the Government benches is attack after attack against Simon Bridges and the National Party. You just know that all of the salvos from Simon and from Paul Goldsmith and from the senior team of the National Party are landing blows on the Government because for the first time we had the Prime Minister authorising an attack ad against Simon Bridges and the National Party. And from the Green Party the morally virtuous Green Party—the nice guys of politics the people who say they don't do attacks; they're the people who just engage in the principles they just engage in the issues—we got a ridiculous stupid attack ad against Simon Bridges. To their credit they've apologised but I think the decision to launch it in the first place is one they do regret. And then Grant Robertson in the general debate David Parker in question time as well—we just know that the Government is under pressure.The Prime Minister gave a speech last week. When I first heard about it and I first heard the topic I actually thought it was a joke. I actually thought it was a parody. It was Why good government matters." That was the topic of the speech. I sat there on Twitter and I thought "Sorry? Jacinda Ardern is going to Melbourne to talk about good government? The Prime Minister of this country is going to Melbourne to lecture the Australians about good government?" I thought "OK well how does one measure whether a Government is a good Government or not?" And I suppose one measure of a good Government is a Government that keeps its promises. I thought "OK that'd be fair enough. If a Government delivers what they said they'd do you would say that's a good Government. That's fair enough."So KiwiBuild—100000 in 10 years; 10000 a year for the first three years—how many have we got? One hundred and three. The Government says they'll lower immigration from the "record levels" under National. What did we find the other day? Immigration is running at record levels. Right through the portfolio list whether it's the promise to get rid of school donations or the promise to set up a national cancer agency or even things that might seem insignificant but are actually important in the communities that we're talking about—the promise to upgrade the Office of Ethnic Communities to a ministry. We now find that that is not going to be delivered either. So one cannot say that this is a Government that is delivering on its promises.But you might say "OK they are not delivering on their promises but at least they're being decisive—at least they're taking determined decisive action." Well I think we're up to about 300 working groups so far and just today we've had another one—20 months in the Resource Management Act (RMA). There is much song and dance about how we're going to reform the Resource Management Act. Today we get an announcement and I thought "Oh this is great. David Parker is finally going to reform the RMA. This is fantastic. Good. National's all in favour of this. We can get on board with this." And then I read the press release. It's not RMA reform; it's another working group—it's another working group. They've literally announced after 20 months of going away and having a panel to study RMA reform another working group to figure out what to do about RMA reform. We're not even going to get a bill until the next Parliament. Well National will be back in charge by then and we will have a plan ready to go.So we can't say they're decisive and you can't say they're delivering on their promises. Then you go "OK but at least they're delivering good public policy." And then you sit back and you think of the oil and gas ban made without any consultation which will actually raise carbon emissions in New Zealand and the regressive stupid fees-free policy that Chris Hipkins oversees as Minister of Education. They're not delivering good public policy. You say "OK well there's not good public policy they're not decisive they're not delivering on their promises but at least they're overseeing higher living standards." And that's actually the tragedy of this Government. The Prime Minister says she came into Parliament to eradicate child poverty. That's her mission in Parliament—her mission as Prime Minister. Well she is overseeing increasing child poverty and record hardship grants and she's overseeing 15000 more people on a benefit this quarter. Our living standards are not increasing—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."