Hudson BrettBRETT HUDSON (National): How would you describe the Government's Budget? It's a flop. It's a real flop but it's not a Fosbury flop. No it doesn't scale those great heights—it's an absolute belly flop. It is a Budget of broken promises. It is a Budget that promised so much and delivered so little to so many. Let's take for example all of the talk that the Government was making about their support and understanding and caring for teachers and nurses ahead of the Budget. In Ōhāriu almost 20 percent of our workforce are in teaching education or health services. So those men and women would have been eagerly anticipating a Budget that would support them the way the Government claimed and that perhaps they would see something in the Budget that would give them the pay rises or at least some way towards the rises they felt that they were due. What did they get instead? Well basically nothing.So those men and women remain in Ōhāriu tonight. They'll go to work tomorrow and they'll know that in their immediate future they'll still be struggling for their pay rises and the Government has let them down. But it's not just let them down in terms of pay; it's let them down in terms of the other promises that they've failed to deliver on. For instance they promised funding to get 100 percent registered teachers in early childhood education. Where's that in the Budget? You don't need to look I can tell you: it's not there. It's not there.The day the Hon Chris Hipkins—the day he became honourable or at least in title—was sworn in as a Minister he said I will remove school donations in the very first Budget." So which line removes the requirement for donation requests? Where's the funding to offset that? It's not there. It's not there. It gets worse though. Another area which is high for the employment in Ōhāriu is public administration and safety. The Government came in promising 1800 sworn police officers in three years and that's going to cost them roughly I think they said $180 million—it wasn't a great deal they claimed. So what do we get instead in the Budget? Well we get $300 million which is a lot more for a lot less: 900 officers. Interestingly that's only 20 more than National was going to do and they crow like they're somehow doing a great thing. It's a Government that promises much and delivers so little in health. It is spending less than our Government did—less. They say "Oh you're including the TerraNova settlement." Do we think for a moment that they wouldn't had they done it? The only interpretation we can get from them saying "Oh you're including the TerraNova settlement." is that if they had had the opportunity they wouldn't have done it. So they wouldn't have supported those care and support workers. They wouldn't have settled a case. They wouldn't have given them that money because they weren't going to count it. You can't count it. Obviously they weren't going to spend it.Well there's more. Mental health: $100 million set aside in a contingency fund. It's wiped out; gets $10 million instead. But wait there's more. What about the universal cheaper doctors visits? Well they didn't make the cut either. But what did they do? What they have done is quite interesting. What they've done is take a look at all of those working New Zealanders—and I'll tell you Ōhāriu has the highest proportion of people in the labour force of any electorate in the country at around 73 percent. What have they done? They've said "Well how can we sting you—where's your back pocket? We want a piece of this." What have they done? Taxes. Taxes on taxes on taxes. Excise tax—that's going to be 3c to 4c a year for three years. We know it'll be the maximum—12c plus GST. Regional fuel taxes that are being legislated for: Auckland gets theirs on 1 July but the Greater Wellington Regional Council in select committee has already said that they're going to apply for one. So from 1 January 2021 Wellingtonians will be paying 25c a litre more for their fuel as well.Hon Member: But wait there's more.BRETT HUDSON: There's more: there's also the Amazon tax there's the brightline test there is about $2 billion of extra taxes imposed on hard-working Kiwis over the next four years. It's just going to hurt them.But what do they do with the money they get? They waste it. They spray it around—$2.8 billion on free fees and they're going to get 900 fewer tertiary students. Well that's not a good investment. There is $3 billion for a Provincial Growth Fund which some call Shane Jones' slush fund. It's already delivered one failed project in a roundabout apparently outside Shane's house plus a few million dollars for good-looking horses. This is this Government. You've got to question: are they just simply incompetent and they can't add up and they can't make things work or do they spray around so much money in the wrong areas so that instead of calling them fiscally incompetent you could call them fiscally incontinent? This is an incredibly bad Budget."