Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Many times in this House I have seen a hapless member fail to fill a 10-minute slot but Duncan Webb couldn't fill five minutes and I feel truly sorry for the people of Christchurch Central who have to have him as a representative. But there are more serious matters than Duncan Webb to be discussed this week because it's Budget week.In particular this week we have seen some really interesting political theatre. We've seen Grant Robertson the finance Minister say he would cut spending by $4 billion and people said Wow!"—except they forgot it's $4 billion over four years; it's only $1 billion a year. People forgot that Grant Robertson has increased Government spending by $49 billion a year. So his $1 billion a year saving is really 2 percent of all the extra spending that Grant Robertson does over and above his predecessor. What he's really saying is that he's going to keep going with 98 percent of the new spending he's introduced. In other words there is no change.Along comes the National Party and they don't say how much they'd reduce wasteful spending by but they do say they will give you a letter to tell you how much wasteful spending has happened and how much tax you've paid for it—an idea that ironically ACT introduced in 1997 when people still relied on letters to get information before the internet became commonplace and even then the National Party vetoed it stopping it from happening when it was more relevant.ACT on the other hand has produced an alternative budget—A Time For Truth—the only fully costed alternative budget that is produced in this Parliament year in year out by ACT showing New Zealanders the real choice for real change not Tweedledee-Tweedledum; the same policies different slogans; because New Zealand has had enough of that. This country is in a state of decline. We must choose on a spectrum between Australia and Fiji. Is New Zealand going to become a big Fiji—a nice place to visit but without the First World healthcare and education and transport infrastructure and services that people expect? Well that is the trajectory this country is on when we have two parties that don't give you a real choice. A Time For Truth is about telling the truth about where this country is up to and taking action to make it better.This alternative budget—and people can download it from ACT's website and go through it—reduces wasteful spending by $38 billion in four years or around $8.5 billion a year. What that means is that we don't touch a single front-line service—not one cop one nurse one teacher. Actually we're going to pay the teachers $5000 more each. Actually we're going to bring defence spending up by 2 percent to 2 percent of GDP. Actually we are going to make 200 secure beds for youth offenders so the police don't play tag-and-release and so that the worst most-hardened youth criminals get the mental health support the education the physical safety the nutrition and the discipline and security that they've never had in their life. We're not going to touch any services; we're actually going to boost Government services where they need to be and we're going to do that by reducing Government waste by the billion that has grown up under this Government.Once we have boosted security to make the streets safe defence to keep the South Pacific safe and doctors fees so that you can actually get into your GP and once we have shared half the GST with the local councils so that you can afford the infrastructure to build new homes—once we've solved those problems—we still have room to reduce your taxes so that someone on $70000 a year would keep just about $50 a week extra.In fact every single earner would be better off under ACT's alternative budget. Everybody would get a tax cut or a credit meaning they would take home more money because the Government would be wasting less and yet in the areas where we really need it we would spend more on a Government that needs to deliver the security the healthcare the education and the infrastructure for Kiwis to live good lives. That is the difference. The ACT Party provides the real choice and tells the truth in our alternative budget. It is a time for truth. Thank you Mr Speaker."