Uffindell SamSAM UFFINDELL (National—Tauranga): Thank you Mr Speaker. Firstly I'd just like to once again send out my condolences to all of those people who have been very adversely impacted by the disasters that we have had in Hawke's Bay and in Tai Rāwhiti Coromandel Northland and other parts of the country.I'd also like to extend my congratulations to the new Prime Minister the Rt Hon Chris Hipkins for ascending to the position—genuinely well done to you on that. To the outgoing Ministers thank you for your service to this House. To the incoming Ministers I hope that you can work in the interests of this country and achieve what you can while you are Ministers.Turning back to the Prime Minister and his statements now I want to focus a little bit on this Prime Minister and his success or lack thereof as a Minister. I think as the Minister of Education—Jamie Strange: You were doing so well.SAM UFFINDELL: I know. I'm sorry Jamie. But you're leaving soon so I'll let it go. We have seen truancy increase tremendously under this Government. We have seen education standards fall significantly where we've got to the point where two-thirds of our children are failing basic literacy and numeracy tests and if we want to have a First World nation we are going to struggle unless a National Government comes in and can turn this around.We had the former Minister of Police watching over numerous ram raids. This soft-on-crime Government under the former Minister of Police; a soft-on-gangs Government. I'll turn my attention to his record as the COVID Minister who failed to get rapid antigen tests into the country and failed to get the vaccines in here that we needed. As a result we were one of the countries that was locked up longer than anyone else and we had to go into another lockdown in Auckland ruining the mental health of the people up there and costing this economy billions of dollars.As we've heard over the few weeks since we've been back in the House the former Minister for State Owned Enterprises hired numerous consultants—14000 more bureaucrats in Wellington. Well we've got a worker shortage so my suggestion to the Prime Minister is to enable those people to go back into the more productive areas of our economy.Then we've got other parts about this Prime Minister. He's got that schoolboy image I know but I wouldn't believe that smiling face because we've seen the lying and the deceit that's happened. We've seen how he treats pregnant journalists who want to get back into this country where he lies about—DEPUTY SPEAKER: I'm sorry but the member will stand withdraw and apologise. You cannot accuse another member of lying in this House.SAM UFFINDELL: I stand and apologise.DEPUTY SPEAKER: And desist.SAM UFFINDELL: And desist. Hon Member: Withdraw. SAM UFFINDELL: I did withdraw and apologise.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Carry on.SAM UFFINDELL: We saw this Prime Minister getting confused recently around Hawke's Bay people who had had guns held at them by gang members and then saying that they didn't have that. We saw the former COVID Minister saying that two ladies went into Northland. He called them prostitutes and we know that they weren't and that they had valid passes in there.So I am very concerned about this Prime Minister. I would encourage New Zealanders to be concerned as well and I would encourage them to be concerned about this Government who have delivered five years of failure—five years of failure in health. We've got Emergency Department times up. People are waiting months and years to get specialist treatment or surgery. In my city of Tauranga in my electorate people can't get the treatment they need. They have to go to Waikato to get it and some of them are actually choosing palliative care.We've already talked about the failures in education. We have consumer farmer and business confidence at low low levels. We've got lawlessness youth and gang crime out of control crumbling Second World infrastructure and immigration settings that are totally unequipped to deal with the worker shortage that we have. We are in a world environment where it is a global labour market and we are not recognising that at the complete detriment to businesses throughout New Zealand.We've got ideologically driven student politicians trying to run our country and they are running it into the ground. Inflation is rocketing up—the highest it's been since the early 1990s. We have a cost of living crisis a housing crisis prices and rents up and we are causing a generational divide by locking people out of the housing market. We have an inability to get things consented and an inability to get things done. This Prime Minister is not the person to do it and we need Christopher Luxon and a National-led Government on the Treasury benches.