Goldsmith PaulHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National): Well what a sorry tale we've seen today and this week in this House. I have never in my time in Parliament seen a Prime Minister so lost so discombobulated by the events and having to explain the unexplainable at a time when we all want the Prime Minister to be outlining how his Government is going to deal with the cost of living crisis in this country—and National's got a plan to do that: it's about bringing discipline back to Government spending; it's about removing costs from the community and giving people some taxes back so that they've got more money in their pockets. No instead of hearing about that instead of hearing about how this Government will restore law and order—we haven't heard anything about that but National's got a plan to restore law and order.Hon Dr Deborah Russell: Eighteen hundred more police!Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: It's about—yes. It's about starting off with the very top direction in the justice system which is to say that currently under this Government the number one and only priority is to reduce the prison population irrespective of what happens in the community—Andrew Bayly: Just let 'em out!Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: Just throw them out and somehow somehow we're all going to be safer. Well that hasn't worked and we will focus on keeping people safe as our priority for crime. So instead of focusing on that instead of focusing on actually delivering decent outcomes in health and education—where we're seeing half of the kids aren't at school; where we're seeing a falling off dropping off in actual developments in reading and writing; and in health longer waiting lists for everything that you look at in health. Instead of making any progress on that what do we hear the Prime Minister talking about? We have the Prime Minister trying to explain why a senior Minister in his Government was asked not once not twice not thrice but 12 times by the Cabinet Office to sell his shares in a company—Auckland international airport—that he as Minister of Transport was clearly conflicted over. Twelve times he was asked and 12 times the Minister didn't get around to it. I've never seen a Prime Minister look so lost so confused so weak and so helpless trying to stand up and explain the unexplainable. And so we all stand here trying to figure out why Michael Wood is still a Minister in this Government because he's failed on three areas: he's failed to declare—well first thing he became Minister of Transport; he failed to do the obvious thing which was to sell a parcel of shares that he had in Auckland international airport. Why is that important? Because it's important that Ministers when they make decisions aren't conflicted by their personal interests. So he failed to sell them then he failed to declare that he still had the shares for more than a year as Minister and then he finally got round to declaring them publicly on the pecuniary interest list but then he failed to do anything about managing the conflict of interest.And we've got examples—we wake up reading the New Zealand Herald today about the North Shore Airport which is a clear decision he made as Minister—a conflicted decision because he owns shares in a competing airport an absolute no-no. And then we've heard later today that he as Minister signed off hundreds of millions of dollars to the airlines during COVID of which the secondary beneficiary of that was Auckland Airport. We had a press release from Auckland Airport saying thank you to the Minister for it. Again that was a conflicted decision. So how on earth does the Prime Minister still think it's appropriate for him to be there? Then we have—at the same time he was in conversation with the Cabinet Office and the Cabinet Office are telling him to sell the shares and he's saying I'm going to do it"—12 times—and yet the Cabinet Office never made public that conflict in the ministerial list and they never seemed to deal with it and they never seemed to stop him from making conflicted decisions.So it's almost bizarre and almost black comedy that we have a Minister 12 times not dealing with it. And so why is this important to people? Because integrity in our political decision making is a foundation of our democracy and we have a Prime Minister who's meant to defend that and instead he seems to be of the view that so long as Michael Wood on the 13th request finally gets around to selling his shares and changing his pecuniary interests he'll be back welcomed on—nothing's happened; it's all fine. Those are the standards that are appropriate in the Chris Hipkins Government.What a disgrace. What a joke. He needs to stand up and clear out the stables and get rid of a Minister that has clearly shown—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."