Collins JudithGENERAL DEBATEHon JUDITH COLLINS (Leader of the Opposition): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. This is a Government whose legacy is one of broken promises promises made so easily during the 2017 election campaign—so easily made and so easily forgotten. I remember these promises. This government will remove the Auckland urban growth boundary"—that was the Speech from the Throne and what happened to it? It has not removed the Auckland urban growth boundary. "New Zealanders deserve a home of their own." said Miss Ardern. "They should not have to pay extraordinary amounts of money to get one. And we have already acted." Well that was KiwiBuild and look how well they acted. They acted they acted and they actually never did anything—that's the problem. They're acting at being in Government. Out of 16000 homes that should have been delivered by this month after three long years we've got over 500 out of 16000. New Zealanders were promised 100000 homes and they have not got any chance of having that delivered. Miss Ardern said that there would be an "Ending [of] homelessness—everyone having a home." She said "the mass Housing New Zealand sell-off ends." What's happened? The Government has sold $30 million worth of State housing while it's been in Government. [Interruption] And they may well moan—they may well moan. We know how difficult it is for the Government when we see Grant Robertson and co. coming after our families—boy do we see that. We would never do that and it's a disgrace that a Minister of Finance wants to excuse his oversight of $11.7 million of hard-earned taxpayer money going to something called a Green School which has never actually been registered as a school. The only thing we can see is clearly Miss Ardern met with at least one of the owners of that school—$11.7 million—and just down the road at Marfell Community School they've got rotten buildings kids with nothing. That Minister of Finance signed it off because his Associate Minister of Finance said that he wasn't going to sign off the shovel-ready projects until he got his way. Well what's the point of a Minister of Finance who does this? This election is going to be about those broken promises. Miss Ardern told the country she didn't need to have policies. Didn't want policies—it's all going to be about COVID-19. Then she said "Don't you National Party politicise COVID-19." Well it wasn't me saying it's all about COVID-19. No it was she who said that. She also promised they were going to reduce child poverty by at least 10 percent and what's actually happened in that time? Well it's gone up by six out of the nine indicators used for child poverty despite three long years of a Labour-led Government. We've got the truth today from the Rt Hon Winston Peters who has come out and told us that actually the Government dropped the ball. They messed up in those months between the first lockdown and the second lockdown. That second lockdown is currently costing 400 New Zealanders their jobs. Not every week not every month but every day 400 New Zealanders are losing their jobs while that Government spent months working out how they could do their shovel-ready projects and waited months to start announcing them and actually it turns out it was Associate Minister of Finance James Shaw who was holding them up. That means jobs were lost in that time. That means contractors couldn't go ahead with their projects. That means councils couldn't be certain about the work they had and in that time people lost their jobs. Businesses failed and people lost their jobs—400 people every day—because that Government couldn't keep the borders safe. You need a single border agency. We need a safe agency. We need COVID apps. We need a COVID card or Bluetooth-type technology and we've seen Sam Morgan coming out and saying he's given up on this Government. They don't know how to get anything done and that's the issue—they don't know how to get anything done. I know New Zealand First now wants to distance themselves and good on them for doing that. A bit late in the piece but good on them for doing it because what we know is it doesn't matter what these people promise and it doesn't matter what they say the reality is they can't organise anything."