Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you Mr Speaker. What a poor showing from the members on the other side. They are just displaying their bigotry of low expectations in this country. We even had a member of Parliament from the Labour Party get up and say that part-time work is not meaningful work. Well I just think it is absolutely appalling and shameful that they have that low expectation of people in this country. I tell you Mr Speaker getting young people into work has to be one of the top priorities.We sit here and see that those members totally mask over the absolute failure of this Government. There are 34000 more young people on welfare—a 50 percent increase on their watch. They talk about all the great programmes they say are happening out there but the outcomes are getting worse and we're seeing this across the Public Service as we speak—more and more money is being spent but the Government's outcomes are going backwards. It's an A" for aspiration but it's an absolute "E" for execution and an "F" for fail because that's actually what's happening and it's our young people who are being failed by this Government's policies.It's not just in social development; it's in transport policy too. We've seen a 60 percent in the number of staff at the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA). There are three times as many communications officers. With the potholes on our roads I would have thought they'd be hiring people to fill the potholes but they've got twice as many people with the title "manager". That's not the way to fix unemployment in this country—simply making managers and comms staff—but it seems to be under this Government's policies.Then we've got the ideology which is seeping in everywhere and particularly in the transport space. We're seeing ideology take over from actually helping New Zealanders get where they need to go get around our roads safely and efficiently and have high productivity transport links in New Zealand. We've seen the cancellation of State highways up and down this country. We've seen the Government's absolute ideological commitment to light rail meaning that nothing else is happening and you have to wonder what those thousands of additional bureaucrats are actually doing under this Government's watch.But it gets worse. We now know what they've actually been doing. They've been coming up with this policy called Reshaping Streets and the Minister of Transport in his press release said "People live shop and meet with friends and whānau on our streets". Well last time I looked streets were for travelling to and from where you want to get to not for having hui with friends and whānau. Last time I had a meeting it certainly wasn't on the white lines in the middle of the road; it was somewhere else. People don't live on the street—well actually they do. There are four times as many people under this Government living on our streets. What an absolute shame. Is that the ambition of this Government's policies? Is it to make those streets so that more homeless people—whose numbers have ballooned under this Government—can live on our streets?It's not just that statement; it's the ideology underneath it. It's about taking away the opportunity for people to be able to have their say in how their streets are managed so that the local territorial authorities and transport authorities can carve up their streets without consultation put planter boxes in and limit access to people's streets and neighbourhoods and all in the name of putting in a two-year pilot without any consultation—which could put in a cycleway a bus lane speed bumps close the street down or limit it to just cars that have some type of emission standard or not. This is the ideology that is seeping into our transport policy and it needs to be called out because ultimately our roads are for getting around; they are not a plaything or a toy for the Minister of Transport to play with with planter boxes and other ideological implements that he wants to do.It's not just this policy; we've also seen the on-again off-again wanting to reallocate lanes not just on neighbourhoods and streets across our community but the harbour bridge in Auckland where it's the on-again off-again cycle lane. It was on again and then in October last year—no it's off again. "We're definitely not doing a cycle bridge across there." Then it's on again—"We're going to do some events."—and then it's off again because it's going to cost $700000. Then it's on again because a letter was sent from some lawyers to the NZTA board. The Government needs to get its transport priorities right about making sure New Zealanders can get where they need to go and stop using transport policy for its ideological purposes."