Bakshi Kanwaljit SinghKANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): Thank you Mr Speaker for the opportunity to speak and participate in this general debate. The previous speaker Virginia Andersen mentioned real people" and I would like to acknowledge the real people who are working hard in the dairy shops working at the liquor shops and working at the petrol stations. When they talk to me they tell the real stories. There are two things which they do mention from time to time. The first is safety—they feel insecure in their businesses. The second is the constant drop in business. They are worried about the economy. They have seen that in about the past eight or nine months sales are going down and they are really worried about both of those things.The previous speaker also mentioned some of the other issues being raised with her like some of the National Party members saying thank you to this Government. I'm also talking about a real person: the councillor in South Auckland Efeso Collins. What was the promise by the Labour Party before the election? It was that there would be no fuel tax—and from 1 July we will have a regional fuel tax. What Councillor Collins said was that it is going to take food off the table of poor people living in South Auckland. But there was not a single mention from any of the Labour Party speakers who participated in this debate that they are going to increase the fuel tax.Some of my colleagues—Chris Bishop as well as the Hon Michael Woodhouse—interrogated two Ministers about the targets which have been dropped: one was Dr David Clark and the other was Stuart Nash. We know that this present coalition Government doesn't believe in targets but without targets how are you going to measure what results have been achieved? We know that when we announced the Safer Communities package in February last year we set a target that 98 percent of burglaries would be attended by the police within 48 hours. That would have given a lot of confidence to the shopkeepers to whom I talk from time to time and they always raise this concern with me. The second target was that 95 percent of New Zealanders would live within 25 kilometres of 24/7 police stations. That was another target which could have given confidence to the people living in that range but those two targets have been dropped.It is not just those two targets but we were going to invest in the wider justice sector to reduce reoffending. That is another way we can make sure that people feel safe in their businesses or in their home and that has also gone. We know this Government is not at all worried about the safety of people. We also wanted to ensure that the extra 1125 police officers out of which 880 were going to be front line would have been distributed in 12 different police districts. Every police district would have got extra police officers due to this expansion of our commitment in the National Party.These are the things which really make a difference and we know that the health targets which were set up by us were transparent sharing with the public how the district health boards were performing—and that was one of the things which was transparent. We have also seen that the national standards in education are also gone. That is another measurement which was very important for students. We know that families which are working hard in dairy shops petrol stations and liquor shops want to ensure their kids get the best education and that is how we can see that the diverse workforce is coming out of the universities who are paying a good amount of taxes and are very capable of serving this country. With these words I complete my speech."