Ryall Tony: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 
Ryall Tony: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 
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Hon TONY RYALL (National—Bay Of Plenty) 
: 
 We heard the rapturous echo of an empty hall when that former failed Minister completed his speech. Not one member of this House expects Mr Gosche ever to come back to ministerial office. Not one person in this House thinks Mark Gosche will ever enjoy the magic of being a Minister again. That appalling speech that drivel that nonsense that some 16-year-old Labour Party researcher wrote and the member read out— 
Hon Roger Sowry 
: Darren Hughes wrote it! 
Hon TONY RYALL 
: That is exactly what I said. That nonsense demonstrates why Mr Gosche will never ever serve in a Government in this country again. 
The members opposite will never ever serve in a Government after the next election because this Government is completely distracted by social engineering. It has no plan for the future of the New Zealand economy. This Government has sat back and relied on all the work and sacrifice of New Zealanders in the last 10 to 15 years. It has rapaciously gathered all their taxes and disbursed them to the people as part of its social engineering agenda. Never once has it brought forward a vision or a policy for the future prosperity of this country. Never once has it brought forward a vision for sustaining economic growth in New Zealand. It has plenty of plans for spending the dosh but not one policy not one plan and no vision at all for keeping the economy moving forward. 
In fact the only vision it has is a separatist vision. This Government is prepared to tolerate two standards of citizenship. It is prepared to give special preference to one group of New Zealanders over another. This Government’s separatist ideology sees approval given to a Maori protest hikoi to cross the Auckland Harbour Bridge but it is against the rules for non-Maori to protest across the Auckland Harbour Bridge. This Government has a separatist agenda that New Zealanders are on to. 
The Government is overseeing the decline in our education standards. Do any New Zealand parents actually think David Benson-Pope will be good for their kids? Not even Labour Party members are prepared to say as parents that they think David Benson-Pope will be good for their kids. We heard today in the House that that Minister has no appreciation of the risk his incompetence poses for the qualifications of many thousands of fine young New Zealanders who have sat for the National Certificate of Educational Achievement scholarships. Those are the kids who will be most affected by his incompetence. Why will the Minister not release the information? Why is he prepared to see that qualification downgraded? 
This Government is incompetent in its handling of personal security. A Minister in charge of law and order George Hawkins is the political dead. He is propped up by his right-wing Labour Party mates who thought they would keep him in Cabinet. Then they realised when the reshuffle came that they had all pushed themselves out of a job because Mr Hawkins was staying there. That Minister put out a press release last month saying that there were a lot of problems with 111 response times but we should not rely on the figures because they were affected by some people ringing 111 in a dire emergency and asking the police to come in 2 days’ time. We asked the Minister in the House today whether he had any evidence for that. Has he ever been told by the police of someone whose family home was being burgled ringing up during the burglary and asking them to come in 2 days’ time? Have the police ever had a man ring up and say his wife was being held with a knife to her throat but the police should come in 2 days’ time? We heard arrant nonsense from this hopeless Minister of Police who wanders around the country in a daze blinded by his own incompetence. 
Then we have the hopeless Minister of Corrections a man who cannot keep his eye on the ball. In fact he is quite distracted by what is going on. He has no idea. Let us take the case of the Government’s sex offenders policy. At the end of November the Department of Corrections led by that Minister told the High Court that Lloyd Alexander McIntosh was so dangerous that it had two people monitoring him for 24 hours a day and he should be put under an extended supervision order. The judge agreed. The judge was not to know that 2 days later some Department of Corrections noddy with the Minister’s approval instructed the provider to cut the supervision of Lloyd Alexander McIntosh to 1 day a week. Then the Minister got a letter from the provider. His office lied to the media saying it had received no such letter. Then the Minister’s office sheepishly rang up and said it actually had received a letter. It was asked whether the Minister would release the letter. The answer was no—because that letter from the people who were monitoring Lloyd Alexander McIntosh said it was too dangerous to cut his supervision. 
What did Mr Goff say? Mr Goff said he could guarantee that having one person monitoring Lloyd Alexander McIntosh would do the job. Well one person was monitoring Lloyd Alexander McIntosh when he attacked a disabled woman in his room; the person monitoring him jumped around outside not knowing what to do. Lloyd Alexander McIntosh is manipulative and cunning. That is why he needs two people monitoring him. When he inevitably reoffends this Government will be held accountable. 
Let us look at the failed Minister for ACC Ruth Dyson. On 2 December Ruth Dyson stood up in this House and in answer to a question from the National Party’s accident compensation spokesman said that nothing was wrong with the accident compensation review. What she did not tell the House was that she and Annette King had approved the release of the Accident Compensation Corporation paper setting out the plan to dismember rescue helicopter services in New Zealand. Annette King signed it off. Ruth Dyson signed it off. The paper exists. The public servants know. The Labour caucus was told it was coming out and its members clapped I am told. 
What happened? An excellent New Zealander and the next MP for Otaki a guy called Nathan Guy went out and got over 10000 signatures from the Levin area opposing the plan that Darren Hughes had OK’d. In the Bay of Plenty another excellent New Zealander Anne Tolley went out and collected 19000 signatures opposing the plan that Moana Mackey and Janet Mackey supported. Do members know what happened? Thousands of people signed these petitions the Government backed down and Moana Mackey said that it was all her work! Moana Mackey did not even go to Whakatane until after the Government had made the decision. 
It is like the floods. I wonder whether members of the House know this. We had serious floods in the Eastern Bay of Plenty mainly in Janet Mackey’s electorate. Do members know how long it took Janet Mackey and Moana Mackey to see their constituents? 
Hon Roger Sowry 
: Two days. 
Hon TONY RYALL 
: It was 2 weeks before the Mesdames Mackey could get off their hind legs in their flash apartment in Gisborne and go to see the people of Whakatane who were suffering from the floods. Janet Mackey and Moana Mackey said that they could not get through because the gorge was blocked. Every other Minister was able to fly into Whakatane Airport to try to get his or her picture in the paper but Moana and Janet Mackey were sitting in Gisborne. Where was Moana Mackey when the people of the Eastern Bay of Plenty were rallying to save their rescue helicopter services? She was on holiday and that is why she is not coming back after the election.