English Bill: AdjournmentText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeEnglish Bill: Adjournment[Sitting date: 31 July 2014. Volume:700;Page:19807. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Prime Minister):I move That the House do now adjourn until Tuesday 19 August 2014. I am proud to move this motion on behalf of a Government that is working for New Zealand. It is a cohesive Government leading a confident country with aspirations for a better future and a brighter future. The election campaign is going to show how different the Opposition is from that. The great thing about this period of this Parliament is that the achievements of this Government have actually been New Zealand’s achievements. It is not so much what the Cabinet or the caucus or the coalition parties have done; it is what the households and workplaces of New Zealand have done to pull this country through some of the tougher times it has seen in decades to the point where New Zealanders can look forward with confidence. The Government has supported them in their resilience and we will continue to do so. We did what we said we would do. We worked alongside people. We protected the most vulnerable. We focused on the issues that matter: a competitive and productive economy. We sorted out the Government’s books and we rebuilt Christchurch.I want to thank all of those people who have helped with the business of government. Mr Speaker I want to thank you. I can read your writing and you are an excellent Speaker although we often disagree. Can I thank the staff here in Parliament. Their respectful support is not always deserved by every MP but I must say that your professionalism helps us to lift our standards. Can I thank the cleaners the security and catering staff library staff Hansard staff the Cabinet Office our research units and particularly our office staff across the parties who have to keep an eye on every parliamentary question—all 30000 of them—every letter every Official Information Act request and make sure that every email is opened and account for every single expense. I want to—[Interruption] Actually some members could have benefited from parliamentary staff who could open their secret trust. Do you not think that that would have helped? Do you not think so? Because then we would know whether Kim Dotcom had donated to the Labour Party. I suspect he probably has because he wants to be influential if the Government changes and what better way than to do what he does with everybody else—put money in their bank account?I want to thank my colleagues. This is a group of people who have arrived at the election in 2014 with the ideas and the energy to get even more progress in the next 3 years than in the last 3 years—even more progress. I want to acknowledge in passing just a couple of my colleagues: my good friend of 24 years in Parliament Tony Ryall and my neighbour from the south Eric Roy. I also want to acknowledge all those other MPs who have given their valedictories. What they demonstrate to this Parliament is that the strength of this party is people who are deeply connected to their communities whose instincts about how New Zealanders think are finely tuned and well asserted in our political process. I want to thank all those members particularly the ones who came into provincial seats that used to be marginal or Labour seats and are now safe National seats and will remain so after this next election. The reason they are going to win is pretty simple: there are more new jobs their economies are growing crime is going down educational achievement is going up and the communities are getting better as the economy gets stronger.I want to thank our Prime Minister. I know it is a luxury in this House but we have a leader we support.Hon Members: Yay!Hon BILL ENGLISH: I know. But I have to admit that he makes it easy. It is the only little bit of sympathy I have ever had for the Labour Party. You are meant to support your leader but you need him to just give you the skerrick of hope that the thing you voted for is what it is going to be. Ah! They did not. [Interruption] That is right; I am coming back to that. But this Prime Minister believes in New Zealand and New Zealanders and their aspirations. That is the difference. He does not want them where you have to feel sorry for them; he wants them looking upward and forward just as he does with his relentless optimism for this country which we have enjoyed the benefit of as the team who works with him. He has appealed to the best in every New Zealander. For every high-profile event with the Queen the President of the US and the Chinese leadership and every interview in the media there are hundreds of small warm encounters with New Zealanders who admire the Prime Minister. That is why he rates 70 percent and the other one rates 7 percent. That is why.I want to thank our coalition partners United Future and ACT who have committed themselves to stable and credible Government and we appreciate that. I want to also acknowledge the Māori Party and in doing so remind the House where it all started with my old friend Tau Henare who in 1993 was the first non-Labour member to hold a Māori seat for 70 years. He won the seat that 70 years previously had been held by his great-grandfather. That started a process—Rt Hon Winston Peters: Which party?Hon BILL ENGLISH: For the New Zealand First party. That was when it was good. He started a process so necessary for New Zealand which was the unravelling of Māori from being patronised by the Labour Party. I want to credit Winston Peters for helping with it. Our relationship with the Māori Party is one of respect not agreement. It voted against us over 90 times in this term of office—over 90 times and it probably wishes it was a hundred sometimes. It has added significantly to the quality and the breadth of Government thinking. Actually in getting around a few people after the Budget—Te Ururoa Flavell may remember this—an old man in an iwi discussion we were doing about the Budget said: “You know Labour want us where they feel sorry for us.” That is absolutely right and we are going to change it.I want to thank the Labour Party for dumping David Shearer. By now he would have been really good. I want to thank Labour for then also going and selecting David Cunliffe. That is even better. Ah sorry no I got that wrong. It was not the Labour caucus that selected David Cunliffe; it was all the other ones. As he said himself: “People will make up their minds as they get to know me.” They have got to know him and they are making up their minds. It is getting so bad that Trevor Mallard used the allegory of the moa. As he said himself scientists have advanced their work in being able to use DNA techniques from extinct animals to reconstruct new life. That is what the Labour Party is going to need; it is. Actually it is a warning from Trevor because when he loses Hutt South they will have to use DNA from him to renew the Labour Party later.Can I thank Kim Dotcom. For a man who set out to rid this country of John Key he is doing more than anyone else except David Cunliffe to make sure John Key stays. I hope that he is on the TV every night. I had hoped that David Cunliffe would be on every Labour billboard but guess what? He is on hardly any of them. I think that is the smartest thing the Labour Party has come up with this term because there has not been anything else.