McClay Todd; Bridges Simon; Rurawhe AdrianHon TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua): Well there you have it. You heard from the Labour Government: we're going to go early we're going to go hard on inflation and it's only temporary. In fact they're going early and hard on inflation by having policies that borrow money and spend it without direction in the economy which drives up interest rates. I would say to the members opposite: the 0.25 percent increase in the interest rates from the Reserve Bank today for the average house price in Auckland is $2500 a year extra and that's before there are more increases this year. And they'll shrug their shoulders and say Nothing to do with us the Government." except they have borrowed $97.5 billion for COVID and spent it on most things except for COVID.This is a Government that only shows urgency on COVID when they're forced to and it's too late. This isn't a bill that says "At the beginning of this year we're going to roll out vaccinations as quickly as we can." The reason there wasn't one of those is they forgot to order the vaccinations. You can't vaccinate Kiwis if you haven't got the vaccination—and by the way here's a headline: you can't give them their boosters until you order and get the boosters either. So it doesn't matter what the app says that it runs out in six months' time: if the Government haven't ordered them you can't give them to people.That's the reason we're standing here today seeing this rushed through Parliament this piece of legislation that will borrow and spend more under the guise that it's good for business and good for the taxpayer and will raise some children out of poverty—forgetting that they didn't say that since Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister and made this one of her biggest priorities "We're not leaving a single child behind." there are more children in poverty today than when she took that on. In fact some of those families wish she hadn't had said anything and she actually just got on and did the job.Well here's the challenge that we have with the reason we're here rushing this through in urgency it's because on every step of the way since the Government put New Zealanders into lockdown last year asked them to sacrifice and to do everything that they should—Kiwis lost their homes they lost their businesses their debt levels went up—the Government has kept talking and hasn't done the hard work. When we look at the support that was available to businesses it only came afterwards when they were forced to because the public pushed them and the media pushed them and the Opposition pushed them.So today before us in this House we've got a piece of legislation that says we're going into a traffic light system; for anybody that's paid attention it is going to be red. The difference is actually what this Government will do is get the police to police it more stringently than everything else and any poor business person that's unsure of the rules doesn't know what they mean—can open today but actually has extra restriction on them in a week's time—if they want to run Jacinda Ardern's red light they will get caught. The problem we have with that is this bit of legislation says "Actually we'll look after you. We'll get the Inland Revenue to come up with some rules to give you some support some money." Do you know what New Zealanders want? They want the Government out of their businesses. The vaccination levels are up; they've done it despite the Government not ordering those vaccines early enough. They want to trade their way out of this problem. The member opposite said ExportNZ thinks it's wonderful they can re-engage with their customers—in six months' time.Do you know what Jacinda Ardern announced today for the tourism sector? She said "Wonderful: on 1 May next year a family of four from Australia can come to New Zealand for a holiday and spend seven days in self - managed isolation and quarantine on their holiday and then go home again." They won't be spending any money anywhere. When you say to people around the world "In six months' time you're welcome to come to New Zealand and hide away in a hotel." they will not come. The tourism sector didn't get any help today. The tourism sector doesn't get help in this piece of legislation. It doesn't do enough for them. They needed it a long time ago. What they want now is Kiwis and Aussies to be able to come here.Here is a simple question for the next speaker from the Government that will stand up and take all of 30 seconds to tell New Zealanders how lucky they are: why is it that a New Zealander has to wait until 15 January and can't come home on 24 December? Why is it more risky on 24 December for a double vaccinated New Zealand Australian to come home and see his family than 15 January? When you ask the Prime Minister she says "I don't know." and that's why they've been fighting in Cabinet.This is not a good piece of legislation. It doesn't do the things the Government says. The help was needed months ago. Now they want to trade their way out and all the Government wants to do is borrow and spend.Hon SIMON BRIDGES (National—Tauranga): Oh point of order—point of order. I've just noted that the member Helen White—she had her fingers in her ears that entire speech and I find that rude. I mean I thought we came to this House to listen to the debate. [Multiple members interjecting]DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! No sit down. That's not a point of order.Hon TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua): Point of order Mr Speaker. I've taken offence to that but I move that the member be allowed to keep her fingers in her ears for the rest of the debate.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Oh order! Sit down—sit down. We'll have the next caller Shanan Halbert—five minutes."