Yule LawrenceLAWRENCE YULE (National—Tukituki): It's a pleasure to speak on the Appropriation (2018/19 Supplementary Estimates) Bill and the Imprest Supply (First for 2019/20) Bill second reading. Really what I want to start with saying is that this is really just the last example of a Government failing to deliver on many of its promises. A previous speaker on our side—Mr Bayly I think it was—referred to the fact that GDP and the New Zealand economy have dropped by about $3 billion in the last year—$3 billion. We were creating 10000 jobs a month; we're now losing 4000 jobs a month. At the very same time this House has been told this is a year of delivery of the Budget but the amount of money appropriated for the job seeker benefit has gone up by $167 million. You see you don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out what is going on here. The New Zealand economy is slowing. A lot of our sectors have lost a lot of confidence. While we have incredible terms of trade at the moment it doesn't appear to be flowing back to those businesses and those people that need to make decisions; many of them have been frightened off. That being said I do wish to congratulate the Government on the Mycoplasma bovis amount which is in these accounts—the $250 million is supported across this House. While it got off to a shaky start I know of constituents in my community who are grateful for the way in which the Government has responded and assisted. It has been difficult for them. Heart-wrenching. Mentally tormenting for them. But in many cases they're through the worst and I remain optimistic as a rurally based MP that we can beat this problem. I also wish to congratulate the Government on the money that's being spent on mental health. I think it's a need that the community has seen the country has seen and I wish to give credit where credit's due.I also acknowledge the $150 million that is put in the gun buy-back scheme; and I give credit for that the Hon Stuart Nash. I do ask the question though when on top of that the Minister and the Government starts adding $40 million from ACC to fund future cost does that not cause a precedent to be set? People could argue Minister and members of the Government that a future Government could go after and spend ACC money on traffic measures as an example on the basis that it would save lives. So I do think the Government may have been more honest if it had simply said it needed to put $200 million into the gun buy-back scheme than actually pinching $40 million - odd out of ACC.A lot has been talked about of rail. The previous speaker Kiritapu Allan commented on the Napier to Wairoa railway line having a train on it for the first time I think she just said. Well maybe it's her age but I remember when a rail car went from Gisborne to Wellington. It was called the Endeavour and it did have—and you'll know this Madam Speaker; it was well-used and it went out of fashion and was unviable. What's actually been reopened is the Napier to Wairoa link of that railway line principally for forestry—principally for forestry. The billion dollars on rail is a complete sop to New Zealand First. That's what it's about. It is part of the coalition agreement. When you gave a billion dollars to rail and you give $40 million—[Interruption]—no no hear me out. When you give $40 million to Pharmac over four years and a billion dollars to rail you ask average New Zealanders what they think of that—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Not me. Not me.LAWRENCE YULE: Sorry. We should ask average New Zealanders what they think of that—and I have and many of them aren't happy.I also look at this appropriation bill and I look at some of the extra money that is going into housing. It would be remiss of me not to remind this Parliament that so far this Government has delivered next to nothing in my home town of Hastings where there is a chronic need for more Housing New Zealand houses. Now in Napier where they have a Labour member there has been a whole lot built but in Hastings there has been none—none so far; none. The Hon Stuart Nash has managed to get 100 and something but in Hastings in the last year we've actually lost houses. That's the total number of Housing New Zealand houses in Hastings has gone down. So I look in this bill and I look at what's being proposed and in my own city there is very little that I can say I proudly support this." other than the money that is going into mental health.I now wish to come to the district health board (DHB) deficits. The DHB deficits—and everybody says there's never enough money—well this appropriation increases the support to fund deficits by $95 million and that says that the deficits are likely to be $234 million. DHBs around New Zealand are swamped in a sea of red ink. I see it in my own electorate. In the last week I have had five people come to me to talk about delayed elective surgery; some people have been on the waiting list for years. When I look at these budgets and I see the amount of money that these deficits are going up to in other words the increase of the $95 million in this Supplementary Estimates bill and the $569 million allocated in the Budget is hardly even enough to break even to keep the lights on. The Minister estimated to the Health Committee on 12 June that he cannot expect financial viability from the DHBs. That is a pretty stark admission when this extra money's been put in there in the year of delivery that actually they're going to get on top of this. I don't believe they will. Three DHBs—Waikato Counties Manukau and Canterbury—still haven't even filed their annual plans to be approved for the year. In my view that's because they are stressed and don't understand how they're going to fund everything.The other thing I'd like to say is—and it was sort of alluded to in the Prime Minister's speech on the day of delivery of the Budget—this sort of concept that you can somehow buy the economy growth. So in other words the Government can spend money through the Provincial Growth Fund—$3 billion has been allocated over three years—and other investments can be made in infrastructure and somehow you can make the boat go faster and the economy improve. I think that is really the fundamental difference between both sides of this Parliament. This side strongly promotes individual growth freedoms business confidence and support and exports. The side to my opposite they really talk about how they can manage things stimulate things and use taxpayers' money in a different way.While the Hon Christopher Hipkins is in the room I am going to talk about the polytech sector and education. It's been referred to by a previous speaker by Ian McKelvie because I cannot stand in this House without mentioning some of the stress that's going on in the Hawke's Bay community because of the changes that have been made to the polytech sector—the loss of identity the potential loss of reserves the loss of land that was gifted to our community and the loss of control. In a year of delivery I want to know what is that delivery? The delivery according to Minister Hipkins is this: you get all the cot-case polytechs in New Zealand and you put all the really good ones together and somehow you'll fix everything. All you do in a community like mine Madam Speaker and your own actually which is connected—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Don't bring me into it.LAWRENCE YULE: Sorry Madam Speaker. The Tairāwhiti Polytechnic—no it's not yours and I apologise again Madam Speaker. You make it more difficult—you make it more difficult.I have given some plaudits here for things that have been done well. But in this Budget for me and the things that are brought up in this Supplementary Estimates bill I would score this Budget a three out of 10. For a year of delivery I think this Government is spectacularly failing to deliver on its promises. I think the way in which the release of the Budget and how it was handled was so low key following the fact that we had most of the Budget before it was released is testament to the fact that the Government has lost some confidence in this space. In closing I'm happy to take a call on this; I'm not happy about what I read in this appropriation.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call Michael Wood. You have seven minutes."