Shearer David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeShearer David: General Debate[Sitting date: 06 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:3259. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID SHEARER (Labour—Mt Albert):What a past few weeks it has been. It has been scandals. It has been blunders. It has been failures. I want to agree with the speaker just before Simon O’Connor who was talking about a seismic shift because that is what is happening in this country as the people of New Zealand wake up and understand what this Government really is all about. It is a Government on its last legs. It is tired it lacks ideas it is complacent and it is becoming more and more arrogant. To see the lack of ideas you have only to look at the thinness of this Order Paper. More experienced MPs in this House have said to me that they cannot remember a time when there was so little Government business being put forward in this House. Even the select committees are knocking off early because there is nothing much to do. It is just not that busy and this Government is showing that it has not delivered.Today we have had the Auditor-General’s report on Whānau Ora come out. The Government has been supporting Whānau Ora and saying what a success it has been. Well let me read from the sixth paragraph in what the Auditor-General said. She said “We wanted to clarify for Parliament and the public what Whānau Ora is where the funding has gone and what Whānau Ora has achieved after four years. It was not easy to describe what it is or what it had achieved.” If you do not know what it is and people cannot describe it and they do not know what its aims and its policies are how can it possibly be successful—how can it possibly be successful? To look at that programme and say that this has been a success is absolutely not true. You have to be able to describe what it is you are trying to set out to do and this Government has not been able to do that. Instead we have had $42 million spent on bureaucracy and administration when it should have been going to the people who deserved it and needed it. It has not delivered on that.The Resource Management Act—what has happened to that? We do not know. It is certainly not on the Order Paper. Nick Smith has buried his head. He has not delivered on that and it is probably because he is looking a bit stressed—a bit stressed—at the moment because he has got to deal with the housing crisis in Auckland. Last week the average house price in Auckland hit $800000—$800000 is extraordinary. This Government is saying $550000 is an affordable house—an affordable house for $550000. Who can afford that? Certainly not young people in New Zealand. It has not delivered this Government. It certainly has not delivered and Nick Smith blames the council. He blames the council for cancelling special housing areas right at the end of the motorway. That man needs to get out of Nelson and get on the north-western motorway at 8 o’clock in the morning and see what it is like to drive from rural areas into the city. That would take him an hour and a half. That is why the council does not want to have any more of those special housing areas right out in the boondocks.The Government has not delivered on that. It did not deliver on Northland and I thank the member from the other side for bringing that up. Simon “10” Bridges did not deliver and National lost that seat because they could not deliver. The big kahuna that it cannot deliver on is the Budget surplus. Seven times in a row the Government has hit a deficit. And what does John Key say? “It is like landing on the head of a pin.”Hon David Parker: A 747.DAVID SHEARER: Landing a 747 on the head of a pin. What an extraordinary analogy! Well nine times out of nine Michael Cullen landed on the head of a pin. Seven times out of seven that man—the finance Minister—is not able to land on that pin. That makes me think that Michael Cullen is a very trusted pilot and Bill English—you would not let him out of the simulator.These are promises after promises and the Government is losing its way. It is a Government that is tired and lacking in energy. It is lacking commitment. It is arrogant. It is smug. It is hubristic. It is finished and all it is doing is seeing out its time until it stands aside and lets a real Government take control.