Tabuteau FletcherFLETCHER TABUTEAU (NZ First): I want to just reply to some of the statements from the previous speaker from across the House there Maureen Pugh and address some of the statements that she made. I think what the member across the House needs to do is to listen to the presidential candidates in the US—both sides of the spectrum. Whether you respect one or disrespect the other both sides of the conversation in the US right now tell every New Zealander that New Zealand First has been saying exactly the same thing: that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will carve the heart out of middle New Zealand. It will compromise jobs in New Zealand.Mr Simon O'Connor spoke about listening to experts—the expert analysis on the TPP. The only independent one that we could make reference to spoke of job losses in the thousands in New Zealand alone. That is the expert analysis that the National Party has chosen to ignore and instead go with its feelings on international trade. If it was a conversation about just trade and tariff removals New Zealand First would be on board but the TPP is an example of this Government's deliberate ignorance if I do so say. It is an example of how it chooses to hear experts when they support its case but on the TPP it did not want to hear from the experts there.Speaking about experts and jobs one week after the Budget was released in New Zealand the new books came out. They actually pointed out—no one noticed and the Government was not going to talk about it—that the Government surplus that it is so desperately trying to fund was $1 billion less than what the Budget told New Zealand it was. We were told about a $1.6 billion surplus—sorry I am trying to find my notes; here they are—and then a week later we were told that actually the surplus was less than it was in the Budget before. So it just keeps going backwards for this National Government.I have got the 10-month Financial Statements of the Government here in front of me—just a little bit of light reading. I wish New Zealanders could see it because looking at core Crown expenses—there are about 15 entries here—every single one of them when compared with the financial year before is a negative number; every single Government entry in terms of core Crown expenses. Social security and welfare down $479 million; health down $453 million. Where is another one? Primary services down $83 million.It is just a litany of a story that this National Government wants the public of New Zealand to believe about how the Minister of Finance is this wonderful manager of our money and yet the Government is cutting money from every core Crown service. Bear that in mind: it is cutting money from every aspect of the Budget and at the same time this Government's debt is spiralling out of control. The National Government inherited either zero or $8 billion debt from the Labour Party 8 or 9 years ago when it came in. Now we are talking in excess of $80 billion to $90 billion of debt. That is the legacy of this National Party. That is what it is achieving.I say to the New Zealanders listening today that you are getting everything that the National Party promised: the policy settings and the legislation that it chooses to pass or it chooses to ignore—say taxing multinational corporates that are avoiding their obligations in this country ignoring the pressures of the housing market painting a picture of GDP growing in New Zealand when in fact per-person it is decreasing. I want to end on the note that as the Government quotes OECD figures on GDP growth it ignores OECD reports that say that New Zealand's overall wealth has declined because of the growing inequality gap in New Zealand. That is the legacy of this National Government and it absolutely must change. Thank you.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.