Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Hunua): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Well we're finally debating—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Oh my apologies to the member for those few seconds. The time has come for me to leave the Chair for the dinner break. The House will resume at 7.30 p.m.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.ANDREW BAYLY: Well today we are debating the centrepiece—the so-called centrepiece—of the Labour or coalition Government: its Families Package (Income Tax and Benefits) Bill. First of all I want to congratulate the coalition Government for actually introducing a bill of its own. We on our side were getting a bit sick of passing all our old legislation from our last 51st Parliament.All New Zealanders want to ensure that everyone having children gets the support they deserve in providing financial physical and emotional support during the life of their children as they grow to adulthood. National of course provided a tax package which is already legislated that would've helped New Zealanders in that situation. Disappointingly the coalition Government will now scrap those legislative changes and implement its new package which we'll be debating over the next few days. And of course it comes with a hefty price tag. The Minister states that it's going to improve the lot of 384000 families but I'll just draw Madam Deputy Speaker's attention to the fact that the National package the legislated National package actually benefited 1.64 million families. What this new piece of legislation that's been introduced today does is rip off the $1060 which everyone would have received through a tax cut from 1.2 million working New Zealanders and gives nothing in return. That is the bad thing about this.Worse than that these hard-working people who have enjoyed the benefits of working and seeing their wages increase over time are now suffering the consequences of fiscal drag—mainly because of the fact that their wages have gone up they're now into a higher tax bracket. As the Hon Willie Jackson will now know wages have increased by approximately $10000 since National took power over the last few years and this means that these people are now paying 30c in the dollar rather than what they would originally have been paying—around 22.5 percent. That's what our tax reform is about: addressing that inequity.However we have got a new policy promoted by this coalition Government and of course it makes a lot of claims. The first claim I heard was that the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance claimed that the new tax package would lift 88000 households out of poverty—Dr Duncan Webb: Children.ANDREW BAYLY: —or children I should say—children—by 2021.Alastair Scott: 2021?ANDREW BAYLY: 2021 and that in fact is below what National had intended. So the legislated tax package already would have lifted 50000 children out of poverty and what we had committed to was a subsequent tax package that would have addressed the poverty of another 50000 people. In my terms—and I think I'm OK at maths—that's more than 88000 children. But the worst thing about this tax package that's been put forward today is that all the money has been blown so there is very little capability for the Minister of Finance to be able to put in place any further tax cuts to actually benefit those people in poverty.I just also want to focus on the issue around the district health boards. I know it's a topic that hasn't been canvassed before. I'm keen to understand why the Minister or some of his colleagues have gone silent on the issue of the capital expenditure for the health sector.Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: Talk to the bill—talk to the bill.ANDREW BAYLY: It's in the bill.Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: Talk to the bill.ANDREW BAYLY: I'll tell you why I don't believe that the members have read the Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update and I draw the attention—Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: No we're actually debating the bill.ANDREW BAYLY: OK. Madam Deputy Speaker the reason I want to draw this attention is that because there is money being spent in this family tax package this is restricting the ability to make substantial capital programmes for the health sector which goes against the stated wishes of the coalition Government and I don't believe they're in a situation to be able to do it in the future.