Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Oh thank you Mr Speaker. Can I start by thanking you Mr Speaker for your courtesy towards me this year and also too I'd like to thank all of our parliamentary staff here within the complex and also the contractors. I'd particularly like to thank my own staff and also my family for the support that they give me. Can I thank also my electorate of Papakura. Thank you for continuing to vote for me and may this continue well into the future. Thank you very much.I'm also going to break with tradition and thank the Government. I do this because the Government helps us so much every day to do our job. Might I particularly thank the Hon Phil Twyford my very close and dear friend who everybody knows now is really one of us and on our side. So I promised Simon Bridges when he took over as Leader of the Opposition a mere 20 months ago Give me housing and I tell you the Government will not want to crow about it and we will." Well have I delivered team? Have I delivered? Yes I have and by the way delivered an awful lot more than the current Labour Government.I think it is really important that a Government does particularly in its first term—and hopefully only term—have some pretty big ideas and what have we got from this Government today? Can't build houses but by goodness can they ban those cotton buds. The cotton buds and the plastic forks are on their way out. The world is safe! And the stickers on the fruit? Mind you I quite like getting the stickers off the fruit because it is irritating. But I thought we also had a Government that wanted us all to know where our food came from. I don't know how that got past the Greens.What we are seeing is a Government that is making our job every day in Opposition absolutely sweet because we know there's good stuff coming next year for us. We've got a Government that has learnt nothing from Boris Johnson and the brilliant win in the United Kingdom for the Conservatives. We have a Government whose Prime Minister when you go back through the tweets is very very uncomplimentary about the Prime Minister of the UK—or by the way the President of the United States.I think it's important though to remember that we are an Opposition that does not intend to stay in Opposition and that is why we have been producing policy discussion documents—the sorts of things that if only the Labour Party in particular had done in Opposition they might not have had to set up 312 working groups within their first two years. We have a Government that has achieved little apart from banning plastic bags and 312 working groups with lots of jobs for their mates.Over Christmas I'm going to be spending my time working on finishing the last few chapters of my first book. And note the way I said "first book" because I must say I think you're going to like it. I think you're all going to like it. There's the odd one that ain't going to like it quite so much but I actually figured most of those people have gone anyway so who cares! I think hopefully you'll have some laughs in it and hopefully you'll still talk to me afterwards.I think it is really important though that we remember what a privileged position we are in here in Parliament and I actually am very much reminded of that as I'm looking through from the days of my maiden speech a few years ago to now to realise that we're still talking about the same issues. In that maiden speech I was talking about the need to reform the Resource Management Act (RMA) and by goodness we are going to get the chance to do that because the policy work that I've been doing is so important—the first time that I've had the opportunity to take the RMA by the scruff of the neck. I'm really relishing it.We talked also in the maiden speeches—what was it we were all talking about? I was talking about methamphetamine and the scourge of it and the gangs. And today what are we talking about under a Labour Government? The same thing. Why weren't we talking about it much when we were in Government? Why? Because we were dealing with it. Now soft on crime back again no delivery experimenting around prisons unable to actually make decisions except for things like banning cotton buds. I mean these are clearly the issues!What happened to child poverty—what happened to child poverty? Oh no that's right—we're not going to do that now. One of the things that I see is so stunning with this Government is their inability to understand that just spending money doesn't always bring results. That is what we know from this Government. No delivery; experimentation only."