Bennett PaulaGENERAL DEBATEHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. Well there was no doubt about it. We already knew that this Government was lazy. Outsourcing more than 200 working groups—Hon Simon Bridges: 300.Hon PAULA BENNETT: 300—sorry. It's 300 says leader Simon Bridges. So the reality is we knew they hadn't done the work in Opposition had no idea what to do once they got into Government and outsourced the job. That's what we knew. What we didn't know I think until recently was just how arrogant they've got so quickly—so quickly.We were told by Newstalk ZB's Chris Lynch that actually they want to drop the Prime Minister's monthly slot. She simply turned around and the reason given was she already had done too many interviews and our Canterbury audience is not worth her time. That's what she actually told them.And then of course yesterday we saw from Chris Lynch himself that he said—and I quote the whole thing—Her press secretary recently told our producer Nellie that the [Prime Minister] won't come on the show unless there is 'something like another March 15th'—I kid you not. Nellie was so shocked she repeated his words back to him." Rt Hon Winston Peters: Pathetic. What a lightweight.Hon PAULA BENNETT: Mr Peters why don't you take advice from the State Services Commissioner—who I find incredible for two years—[Interruption]SPEAKER: Order! Order! Order! Both of you. Now there is a matter currently before the court and it's not going to be referred to as part of this general debate. I am sometimes slightly behind the times but I have been following the newspapers and I know exactly what the member was referring to and she will cease.Hon PAULA BENNETT: Mr Peters why don't you take some advice from the State Services Commissioner—Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. She cannot begin by saying "why don't you take some advice". I know she's not very experienced but at least she should have learnt something about this House's procedures. You can't—you—use the word "you".SPEAKER: Well actually Mr Peters—and the comment was in order in that she used "you" in the sense of "one" which I have indicated in a recent ruling is acceptable.Hon Member: Yes. That's right.SPEAKER: I could do without the help thank you. But what I have also made clear Mr Peters is where something is part of a debate and it is very clearly directed to a member opposite as part of that debate—in this case it was "Mr Peters you"—I have indicated that I have loosened off some of the rules in that area—not as part of question time; part of debate. It was something that was dealt with at the Business Committee by way of discussion. We'll go back to the Hon Paula Bennett.Hon PAULA BENNETT: Thank you Mr Speaker. Back to the debate where I was suggesting Mr Peters that one looks at the State Services Commissioner who has had to stop an investigation into the Treasury leaks because of botching up yet another one that was happening. The arrogance I think from the Government is pretty stark as one sees that the Canterbury audience isn't even important enough for the Prime Minister to actually go out and do. But what we've seen in the last two weeks is more work done by the Opposition in the last two years—with minimal resources and minimal staff—than a Government that has the whole Public Service at its disposal and a whole lot of people that can do things for it. So what we've seen is actually—whether it goes to the fabulous discussion document put out on social services welfare and our children; whether it goes to the education document from the Hon Nikki Kaye that we've seen today—more work and more ideas from the Opposition than one can see from three Government parties that can't get themselves together outsource to more than 300 working groups and are still unable to deliver.The list of course—and we saw the Prime Minister do a little video of can she in two minutes get through all that they have done. Let me for the next one minute and 42 seconds get through all that they haven't done.They've introduced seven new taxes despite saying that there'd be none. Seven out of nine child poverty indicators have actually increased. Failed to deliver of course 1800 new police. Failing to deliver 100 percent qualified early childhood education teachers. The number of people in motels has increased threefold despite saying there'd be absolutely none. Failing to deliver a surgical mesh register which has actually been promised by this Government. Failing to strengthen the Official Information Act—because of course this is the most open and the most transparent Government that has ever been seen. Embarrassed into action—no let's say it: embarrassed into action—which they were on cancer by of course National and all the work that had gone on by this Opposition that does more work than the lazy Government does on any day of the week. Failing to increase the age of breast screening to 74 years old like it was promised but not delivered. Fees-free of course is still resulting in fewer students studying not more. Failing to reduce the gender pay gap—and in fact my colleague Denise Lee is going to get up a bit later and she'll actually talk to you all a bit about how that's going with the legislation that simply gets stalled. A cannabis referendum that of course won't be binding because the lazy Government has failed to do the work early enough to bring it to the House so that the public get a true say. Has not actually introduced volunteer rural constabulary like they promised. Job growth has halved. SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."