Upston Louise; Salesa JennyHon LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō): Thank you Madam Speaker. The Budget Policy Statement is of course about priorities and that's what this debate is and why this side of the House does not support and will not support Budget 2022. I want to give a couple of reasons why because the third area of priorities says this: Laying the foundations for the future including addressing key issues such as … climate change response housing affordability and child poverty." This is a Government that's been in 4½ years; you're only just starting to lay the foundations of the two biggest challenges—actually the three biggest challenges—that Ardern has gone on about for five years. I want to pick on two of them. The number I want the House to remember today is 100000 because Ardern promised 100000 KiwiBuild homes—admittedly within 10 years but they're nowhere near that. But what has happened with housing affordability? We've seen the average house price now go up by $400000 and for the thousands of renters across New Zealand their average rent has gone up $140 a week which is a direct contribution to why we have a cost of living crisis. The other 100000 that I want people to remember today is the 100000 children that Ardern promised to lift out of poverty. How's that going? She promised to lift 100000 children above 50 percent of the median income by 2020. It's now 2022 and it's got worse. There are now over 100000 children—100400 by the way—so she has failed to deliver her promise to lift children out of poverty. So the other side crow all the time about their wellbeing Budgets but what has it actually done for children in poverty on the measure that the Prime Minister herself put out there?In contrast Christopher Luxon outlined a speech on Sunday in his state of the nation address which clearly stated the realities of many New Zealand families today with a cost of living crisis. Petrol in Wellington—$3.50 a litre. So for those of us sitting in the House it probably doesn't make too much difference for us but there are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders that dread pulling up to the petrol station now and they dread going to the supermarket for the very reasons that the cost of living is going up and is going up far faster than wages. So that's why a very sensible practical policy is actually giving New Zealanders a bit of tax relief actually keeping more of what they earn. The other side tends to forget that when we have this big Budget Policy Statement and there's $12 billion - plus extra coming in tax Grant Robertson rubs his hands with glee because then he gets to decide how to spend the money that hard-working New Zealanders have earned. So this side of the House says quite simply that in the middle of a cost of living crisis we should enable more New Zealanders to keep more of their own money and make decisions for themselves. This side of the House trusts New Zealanders. We trust New Zealanders to make decisions about themselves about their families about their businesses and about their communities.The other side as I remind the House—100000 KiwiBuild homes was going to be a critical part of improving housing affordability. Well that's a fail. That's four years of failure from Labour. On child poverty 100000 children would be lifted out of poverty by 2020. It's now 2022 and that's an absolute abject failure. But who pays for that? It's the children in the very households that we're talking about. The cost is on them and this side of the House knows we should support families to support themselves.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): I call on Debbie Ngarewa-Packer who is connecting with us remotely. Debbie has five minutes."