O'Connor DamienHon DAMIEN O'CONNOR (Labour): There were days when people would trust what a doctor told you. Well you certainly can't trust what that doctor Dr Vanessa Weenink tells us. She should be ashamed because as a doctor she knows that the imposition once again of prescription fees and the removal of the obligation to make homes drier and warmer will be an impost on many of the people that come to doctors up and down this country to look after their children. It is a disgrace. This Budget is about choices and the Government chose to give tax cuts big tax breaks to landlords and to those with high incomes and to throw a few pennies—$2.50 a week—to people on superannuation; about $12 to people on low incomes. Their choices were to look after their mates. On top of that how they did that was to borrow money to pay for their tax cuts—the so-called magical fiscal managers.Well let's have a look: $12 billion is being borrowed and $10 billion is going out in tax cuts. Where does that money come from? Irresponsible fiscal management by a National coalition Government to ensure that child poverty will go up unemployment will go up. The misery for too many people who don't have choices will go up while their mates their landlord mates walk away with bigger fatter wallets. This is immoral. This is an immoral Budget from a coalition Government that just cares about the people at the top and still believes in the trickledown theory. I'm ashamed to be here. Poorer people living in lower areas will not be protected because there's no consideration about climate change mitigation about doing anything as a country because this Government has changed the focus of what Government should do. Instead of caring for those who need care they're simply walking away on the basis of the trickledown theory.I could go on—my colleagues will talk on many other issues—but I've got a brief time to talk about trade because the Government has aspirational targets of doubling trade doubling export income for this country.  we support that in Opposition in fact we had strong growth even through COVID of our export earnings in this country through a really tricky time. And I want to thank all those people involved in exporting—thank the A listers and the C listers; the people who were insulted by a Prime Minister who once again put his foot in his mouth. We in Government took trade missions when we could. Obviously COVID interrupted that. put people in planes and they paid their own way to come and meet up with the Prime Minister and myself and others—Mr —to advocate for greater trade from this country. Big firms small firms—in fact if you go back there were a couple of small firms. One was Animation Research; another one was called Rocket Lab actually. They were small firms probably C listers but they became big firms contributing significantly to the export earnings in this country. And for the Prime Minister to insult the people who were on trade missions with the Labour Government and the Labour-led Government was outrageous. not apologised and he should in my view.is Budget—the Government's Budget—does nothing to support the growing number of small exporting companies in this country to want to get out around the world. No more money for Trade and Enterprise—in fact cuts to the budget for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. No more money for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). And I'd have to acknowledge that the Deputy Prime Minister has probably kept the money for MFAT and good on him. I just want to say that the first Budget of this coalition Government is an insult. has simply transferred wealth from poorer people to more wealthy people and the disparities in this country are growing the division in this country is growing and that is because of choices that have been made by the coalition Government not because of inflation not because of anything else but because this Government has chosen to look after its wealthy mates instead of looking after the people in this country who need assistance.