Watts SimonSIMON WATTS (National—North Shore): Mr Speaker a very good morning. Everyone's looking bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on this Friday morning. What a morning it is.I tell you what I'm going to talk today about the Taxation (Budget 2021 and Remedial Measures) Bill third reading. A couple of key changes in this Act as we've discussed. We've heard a little bit of an overview over there. The minimum family tax credit going up by $520; we support this. The child support amendment—look we're fixing a number of mistakes made in this legislation obviously that's needed to be done so National supports this.I want to cover three key areas this morning because I must say last night in committee stage was an interesting process. I just wanted to reflect a little bit on that. And I'm so pleased to see the member for Wairarapa in the House because he gave an absolutely stunning overview of champagne socialism. He was articulating how proud and all that they were and I think what that really reflected to us in this House is this Government wants to control—big Government is a cost and it's negative on productivity.What also was interesting was from the Greens. I must say the Greens—I wasn't too sure where they stood on this. They were abstaining from the vote which basically means they refused to vote to support a minimum family tax credit increase which seems at odds with where they're coming from.Hon Simon Bridges: Hey one question is the member proud to be a socialist?SIMON WATTS: Absolutely not.Look the bill enables us I guess to reflect on the Budget. Look I think we all woke up this morning and we were having a bit of a think about well what actually happened yesterday. I must say there was a little bit of good commentary.But getting back to the bill: billions borrowed for benefits a band-aid for Pharmac no boost for business—and Business New Zealand's comments about yesterday's Budget: a Budget that missed an opportunity for growth". The Employers and Manufacturers Association: "No great benefits for business". So I must say a bit of a resounding comment around the feedback on yesterday's Budget—which relates to this bill—that there was nothing there for business.A little bit of conversation around the bill that we went through yesterday because we spent quite a lot of time going through correcting a mistake. Let's get it right. The child support aspect of the bill was correcting an error that was made. Nothing more than sloppy drafting of legislation. And you know the time that we have in this House matters and using that time to correct stuff like that is a missed opportunity. I'll cover that a little bit later. The impact of that mistake was going to have sizable system ramifications for the Inland Revenue Department. So I don't think that we can sort of brush it under to say that it wasn't of significance.You know these errors because of the fast pace at which these guys are trying to operate without the attention to detail can have significant risks and implications for our Government departments. And don't get me wrong. Those Government departments are under a lot of pressure at the moment because they're getting a lot of talk and not much direction from this Government.So in summary: every moment in this House matters. I think I'd made that point around the correction of the mistakes. A missed opportunity to fix congestion in Auckland. A missed opportunity to build the second Waitematā Harbour crossing. A missed opportunity to deal with the healthcare workforce crisis in this country—4183 vacancies in this country and what did they get from this Budget yesterday? They got an additional $15 million.DEPUTY SPEAKER: You realise this is not a Budget speech?SIMON WATTS: Absolutely Sir. I do appreciate that. I was just making the context around the errors in the bill. I commend this bill to the House."