Dean Jacqui: General Debate 
Dean Jacqui: General Debate 
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JACQUI DEAN (National—Otago) 
: 
 What we are looking at day after day is a very worried Government. This is a Government and a Prime Minister who are hanging on to power—but only just. Everything they touch turns to custard. They cannot even keep the lights on in Auckland. This is a Government that is very very worried. 
They look across the House and what do they see? They see us. They see the proud National Party. They see an invigorated caucus led by Dr Brash just waiting to take back the Treasury benches. They see 24 new MPs each one of them working away making their mark sizing up the Ministers on the other side of the House and waiting for their chance to be the next Government. We look at them and what do we see? 
Anne Tolley 
: I try not to look. 
JACQUI DEAN 
: We have to look at them. Even from the back benches we have to look at them. 
What do we see? We see the managed exit list. We see the list of Ministers who have risen and quickly fallen again. We see the list of MPs who are just waiting for their managed exit. How many of them are there? Poor old Marian Hobbs was absolutely shafted over the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. All that the loyal hard-working Marian Hobbs wanted was $3 million for her significant projects fund. She did not get it for Karori. Invercargill Queenstown and Dunedin got it but poor old Marian Hobbs got nothing. 
Taito Phillip Field turns to God. God knows whether he will stick with Labour. And what about Jim Sutton? No he did not want to become ambassador to Canada. What about him? He was defeated in Aoraki. Well maybe there is Niue. 
Even worse this is the Government that will not take responsibility for its own actions. How many years has it been in power? It has been in power for 7 long years and still it cannot take responsibility for its own actions. This is the “run for cover” Government. This is the Minister of Finance who sits on an $8 million surplus but cannot see the link between that and delivering tax cuts that will benefit all New Zealanders. 
Worse still whose fault is it? It is the media’s fault. Of course it is not the Government’s fault. And what about the worst offender of all? What about the do-nothing Minister—my friend Mr Jim Anderton the Minister responsible for drug policy. What will it take for Mr Anderton to tighten the regulations around the sale and supply of party pills? A survey released yesterday showed that one in five young people has tried party pills—20 percent of our population has tried party pills. Is that not enough to make Mr Anderton act to tighten up the regulations? Clearly it is not. Sixty percent of the people questioned in that survey released yesterday believed that the present regulation of party pills is too light. 
Now is the time to act. We must move quickly to protect our young people. Mr Anderton is the Minister in charge of drug policy. He is the man who needs to take responsibility because we now find that the problem of party pills is much bigger and much worse than we ever imagined. Mr Anderton has sat on his hands while the evidence has mounted—the evidence from surveys and from evidence-based work but also the anecdotal evidence that is building up and up on this issue. 
Finally I want to send a message to Mr Anderton. He may not have acted to shut down the party pill industry but I have. I have got a party pill shop closed in Oamaru—one down many more to go. 
The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.