Willis Nicola; Mallard TrevorNICOLA WILLIS (National): I am deeply concerned by what we are starting to see in our communities and in our families. The economic wave of COVID-19 is starting to hit New Zealanders up and down this country. We all justifiably feel pride in how this country came through the immediate health crisis how we came together and locked down and were able to prevent deaths on the scale and illness on the scale that was seen in some other countries. But we have not escaped COVID-19 because today we are experiencing unemployment at incredibly high levels. Forty thousand jobs were lost in April. That's 40000 people: their families their hopes their purpose taken their incomes reduced their lives altered for ever. Tens of thousands more New Zealanders are predicted to lose their jobs in the coming months—tens of thousands more. Billions are predicted to be wiped from our economy. Those billions represent the hopes and aspirations of entrepreneurs of small-business people of young people entering the workforce for the first time of families who may have wanted to do something extra—take on a mortgage buy a first home—but will no longer be able to do it.More than half of the building projects that were planned pre - COVID-19 are now in jeopardy. We are seeing literally billions of dollars' worth of construction and development facing delay or at risk of stopping completely. The Government's answer to that today is that they're going to run an apprenticeship programme. We here in the National side say well we absolutely support apprenticeship programmes but we'd suggest to you that you have a major problem in front of you if half the construction industry is at risk of failure. Who is going to hire the apprentices in the face of that reality? It's not just the big businesses. It's the local butcher here in Kelburn who just couldn't make it through COVID-19 and will shut his doors after nine years. It's the bubble tea cafe in inner city Wellington who relied on the students who came for international education who no longer darken the doors. It's the shoe repair shop that has succeeded through generations of a family business that's now at risk. The realities of the COVID-19 economic crisis are really biting in our communities. So what we need is a Government that can give people certainty confidence that it has the ability to deliver that it can manage well and that it can deliver.Instead what do we have? Today we have the ridiculous situation where a Government that promised us it could manage the border well it could manage quarantine well that it would ensure that it kept COVID-19 out instead has broken every one of its own rules. In fact it appears it didn't even know what the rules were. Instead of a Prime Minister who's prepared to stand up and say Not on my watch—that Minister must go." we have the spectre of her defending him in this House. And I'll tell you why it matters. It matters not just because of the health crisis that we face and New Zealanders' ready expectation that this be managed well but it also speaks to this Government's ability to get us through what are going to be some very tough months and years ahead. We need a Government that has attention to detail and that can deliver. Instead we have a Government that built 395 KiwiBuild houses when it promised 10000; that when it said it would provide shovel-ready projects to get us out of this crisis instead released a list of reheated press releases of projects they promised two or three years ago—like the Unitec housing development that Phil Twyford first announced more than 800 days ago and that when asked in this House about it the Prime Minister said it couldn't happen because of Resource Management Act (RMA) delays. Well Prime Minister we offered you the chance to work with us on RMA reform and you didn't. This is a clumsy incompetent Government that does not have what it takes to give New Zealanders the confidence and certainty we need to rebuild our economy. It's time the adults took charge again. It's time for a National-led Government that can deliver.SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."