Hutchison Paul: General Debate 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Hutchison Paul: General Debate 
[Sitting date: 18 July 2012. Volume:681;Page:3635. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON (National—Hunua) 
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 I would firstly like to say a few words regarding the very sad and untimely death during the adjournment of one of Parliament’s long-serving security guards David Ernest Allanson. Like so many of his colleagues David demonstrated great professionalism courteousness and kindness and was always willing to go the extra mile for the public. I have known him from the first fifteen in the Onslow College rugby scrum and have known him to be a very keen and enthusiastic outdoors man. On the night he died he opted to ride his bike home from Parliament and tragically collided with a car. His popularity and respect is demonstrated by the fact that already the third condolence book at Parliament’s rubber door is almost filled in. Our thoughts and sympathy go out to his widow and his two sons.  
On another note Labour’s new leadership voting arrangements look very very messy: 40 percent caucus vote 40 percent members’ vote and 20 percent affiliated vote. We can think of Andrew Little. He has probably got a few of the affiliated Labour union votes—a few of them anyway—but he has other distractions so he is out. Then we have the three Davids. David Cunliffe of course is a man of the people. He is studiously going around getting the people’s vote and he has unique methodology. As we all know he lives in the very affluent area of St Marys Bay but occasionally every month or so he goes to the cupboard and picks out these old jeans and he goes down to mingle with the good people his constituents in Grey Lynn. He selects them on Sunday afternoon and he picks out those whom he is going to have to afternoon tea. So he has got the people’s vote. Then of course there is David Parker. He is a little bit more thin on the ground than all three of them.  
But then we have got the present incumbent David Shearer. David Shearer is his name and indeed David Shearer—well he has got the caucus vote for now. I also understand from the  
New Zealand Herald  
that he has got the votes of a few wandering warlords from Somalia not to mention Liberian cannibals who happen to be refugees. So he is right. But he has got Grant Robertson breathing down his neck. And they have all got the Greens who want to take over.  
I have got some advice for them—I have got some advice for them. They have got this idea that they have secured this three-voting system. But I reckon they can outgun the Greens by having three co-leaders—three co-leaders for the Labour Party. Can we imagine the combinations and permutations of Andrew Little Grant Robertson and the three Davids all vying for leadership or co-leadership of the Labour Party? What absolute mayhem that would cause.  
I want to talk to you just a little bit about what the really good news is in this Parliament and that is the fantastic leadership that National has had in the health field. Spending of $14.1 billion in the last Budget represents the most spent ever and is $2 billion more than in 2008. We heard in question time today that New Zealand is literally leading the way in health despite tough times globally. Under National New Zealand has the third-highest growth in health spending of 28 OECD nations for 2009-10 according to that OECD report. It is very relevant to point out that some OECD countries like the UK like Denmark and like Norway which Labour is always talking about have had reduced spending. We have the fifth-highest level of public health spending as a proportion of GDP in the OECD. I could go on with more and more good news in the area of health brought about by the National Government.