SpeechLAWRENCE YULE (National—Tukituki): That was a fine contribution short but sweet.Hon Member: That won't win a seat in Northland.LAWRENCE YULE: No no you need a bit better in Northland for that.I want to carry on on what my learned colleague and friend Mr Ian McKelvie has told me because while he's had a lot of seriously bad financial news this evening as I understand it this bill really is seriously bad in terms of financial news for New Zealand. It's not as the Government would say that we're all negative. It's just that we are borrowing so much money—$140 billion—we're running deficits for the next four years and because we are spending money as quickly as we can it generally lacks the scrutiny and probity that one would normally have around such large-scale expenditure.I'll give you an example Madam Speaker I'll give the House an example. I read an article earlier in the week that said the Government has spent $22 million on housing homeless people during level 4 lockdown—that is 1200 homeless people according to the article. That works out at $600 or nearly $650 a night in motels for homeless people. There may be a very good reason for that—Hon Shane Jones: Bad maths.LAWRENCE YULE: —but I know—no the maths is fine Mr Jones. The maths is fine; I've checked it several times. My point is when you look at the number that's been spent and the number of nights and the number of people it is over $600 a night. Now my point in illustrating that is to not have a go at homeless people but to say this is exactly what happens when you spend money of scale and as quickly as you do. We'll get to the bottom of why it cost that much per person but when you are spending $140 billion at pace then the quality of that spend often gets compromised.I'll remind members of this House that it's not the Government's money; it's our money. Every time this House or this Government borrows money they're borrowing it against us—against my household against my children and against my grandchildren. When you do that at pace and you are somewhat reckless in areas then ultimately you are wasteful.Because the Hon Shane Jones is in the House and he commented on infrastructure. Money is being borrowed for infrastructure but yet as I can see it Mr Jones very little has been announced or is shovel-ready or is about to happen. While we jest about the Napier to Wairoa line—which I was on the train when it was opened with you. Six million dollars six trains—I only thought it was two trains but apparently it's six trains. If you do things of scale at pace and without the proper business analysis—Hon Shane Jones: COVID-related slow-down.LAWRENCE YULE: COVID-related slow-down. Mr Jones you know that they haven't even got a marshalling yard in Wairoa to put the logs on. That is nothing to do with COVID that is because the Government as it's typical of doing announces something and said This is wonderful." but cannot deliver.If you come down to this bill this bill is very important because what it talks about is particularly the COVID-related changes that are being brought about in this Supplementary Estimates. I come back to the bill because one it's important that I do so as part of this but also because we are spending a fortune. This side of the House is not against spending money as laid out in the Supplementary Order Paper: business support COVID subsidy. I've been around business in my electorate. They're grateful for the wage subsidy they're grateful for the extension some employees are grateful for the $490 a week if they lose their jobs. That's not the question.The question for me is in the bigger spend which relates to infrastructure and urgent projects and the scrutiny of that. I used the example of the homeless people as a mere example of the type of spend. If we're not careful this Government will be wasteful with that money and it has to be paid back. Myself my children and my grandchildren will pay for it and we believe it's inefficient. Thank you Madam Speaker."