Simpson ScottHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Well thank you very much Madam Speaker. Here we are we're in the closing part of the third week of a four-week sitting block and we are rapidly approaching 100 days of this new coalition Government. In fact this time next week we will be very close to the hundred days.My late mother was a nurse. I remember growing up as a child one of the good sage pieces of advice that my mother gave my brother sister and I was that if we ever had an accident where there was a need to stem the flow of blood and we'd stub a knee or make a cut or something like that her advice was always: first stop the bleeding—first stop the bleeding. That's what this coalition Government has had to do during its first hundred days: stop the bleeding the wasteful profligate spending the arrogant assumption that they know best on every issue and the arrogant assumption that New Zealand voters using the democratic ballot box available to them have made a decision about the future direction of this country and it wasn't the direction that was being taken by that Government over the last six years.Speaking of stopping the bleeding it's only just started on the Opposition side. This afternoon we saw a line-up of potential new leaders—a line-up of them. First there was Kieran McAnulty. Now odds are on that he's the favourite. He's a bookie by profession and he'll be counting the numbers and doing the odds—that's what he will be doing. Then we had Ginny Andersen unlikely running mate—unlikely running mate; could be a leadership partner in a coalition of the Labour Party. David Parker has been speculated a lot as being a potential. Now David Parker is a man of extreme talent and experience and long standing in this House—Carl Bates: Too sensible.Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: —and David Parker—Too sensible." My colleague makes the point "Too sensible." because David Parker ruled himself out of the blood-letting challenge that is about to happen.Carl Bates: What about Phil Twyford?Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: Well Phil Twyford maybe. He's a quiet one on the bench at the moment. He's a quiet one. He's got a glint in his eye—a glint in his eye again. But the real outsider today was Greg O'Connor. Now Greg O'Connor used his question to make his mark on the leadership bid for the Labour Party. It's only a question of time and Greg O'Connor will be there. Not quite sure who the running mate will be—Carl Bates: Stuart Nash.Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: —but he will almost certainly be there. Well Stuart Nash—maybe he'll do a comeback. We heard a little bit from Stuart Nash this week. Then there was a late entrant in question time today a bloke by the name of Reuben Davidson. Now I'm not quite sure what his aspirations are but he showed some potential. He's asking a question and he got a very satisfactory answer from the Minister.But as we approach the completion of this coalition Government's first hundred days I want to remind the House about the 49 points of action that we will have completed by this time next week or next Friday. It's actually 8 March which is the day that we will celebrate the first hundred days of this administration.So it was only a week or so ago that the Prime Minister gave his state of the nation speech. In that speech he went through a list of the actions that we have already completed as a coalition Government and he highlighted many of the remaining actions that we have to do. But he highlighted also the fragile state of the country's economy the perilous state of the Government's books and indeed the profligate wasteful spending that had taken place by the previous Government. But he cited a number of the very good initiatives that have already taken place by the Government to stem the flow of blood and the bleeding that was occurring under the last Government.So one of those was to abolish the ute tax. That was a very good initiative. Now many people will know in this House that I'm a committed electric vehicle (EV) driver and a fan. I don't understand why people wouldn't be driving an EV. But I do understand the negative impacts of putting in place a policy that would punish those who aren't able to for a variety of reasons use EVs. That time will come at a point in the future; it's not right now but it will come in the future. Then of course this Government has already stopped that mind-bogglingly wasteful experience called the Auckland light rail.So as we come to end of this week the third week of this four-week sitting block next week we will have completed our 49 projects and our hundred days of Government will be there. New Zealanders can look forward then to the next 100 days."