Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Well if only this Government responded to the cost of living crisis as quickly as they responded to a tanking poll last week. By 6 o'clock with the prime-time news with the poll going down the attack ads were already out. That's what happens with Labour; when the polls go south they get personal. They're the nasty party—getting nasty getting personal because finally New Zealanders have woken up.What they learnt in that last Budget—and who would have thought; after a Budget to get a poll when the researchers were in the field to actually go down? Normally a Government would get a Budget bump. This Labour Government went down. But of course New Zealanders are waking up because they're realising this Government doesn't care. They were dragged kicking and screaming into the cost of living crisis and then they put up a $350 payment to New Zealanders. Of the army of officials available to a Government you'd expect one boffin one Minister's adviser to say Well if you put in this $350 payment but the entitlement is only up to $70000 a year when the average Kiwi wage is $73000." Who would know? Where did this come from? They couldn't even get it right that an average Kiwi would get the cost of living payment.Then we find out in the paperwork it was cobbled together on 4 May a few weeks before the Budget and that's why it wasn't even costed in the Government's costings for the Budget. And in the paperwork the lead agencies—the Treasury was saying "No IRD should be it." and IRD were saying "No Treasury should be it." Absolute incompetence. As we saw with the road-user charge discount—yeah good enough; hard-working commuters like where I represent they'll get three months of discounted road-user charges. But what about the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been siphoned out of the National Land Transport Fund under this Labour Government into Auckland to pay for their pet public transport projects? Hard-working people I represent in Waimakariri are watching their hard-earned funds being siphoned off for these pet projects in Auckland.What did this Labour Government do when they took office in 2017? They cancelled the Woodend bypass. So not only do Waimakariri commuters have to watch their road-user charges being redirected to Auckland they don't even get the promised roading infrastructure under a Labour Government. And another kick in the guts was the costing of the Woodend bypass was $120 million at the time. This Government spent more money on consultants for the failed Auckland cycleway bridge and the doomed Auckland light rail. They'll spend more on consultants than they'll build on roads in regional New Zealand.I brought Simeon Brown National's transport spokesperson—soon to be transport Minister—into Waimakariri last Friday to hear from the Woodend community. That road is State Highway 1 that runs through the middle of that town—since this Government cancelled that motorway vehicle movements have increased by 25 percent. They've had safety consultation after safety consultation. And what does the New Zealand Transport Agency do? Well it's all very well having recommendations but the Minister's given us no money to actually implement the recommendations. What a farce. So what are they doing now in Waimakariri? Well they're reducing speed limits because the council's not getting enough funding from this Government for road maintenance. So the cheaper option is to reduce the speed limits. That's what Waimakariri gets from a Labour Government.Then we have this week—another kick in the guts—the three waters reforms. In a survey in Waimakariri 95 percent of ratepayers oppose three waters and want to opt out. Let's be very clear: this is an asset grab. This is theft of ratepayers' own water infrastructure that they've worked hard over generations to pay for. And what does this Labour Government come in? They run roughshod over local people's views and that's why the polls are going down. That's why under a Labour Government the attack ads are out. Labour gets nasty."