Webb DuncanHon Dr DUNCAN WEBB (Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs): Tēnā koe te Mana Whakawā ngā mihi. What a negative niggardly speech. It must be frustrating for Dr Reti the spokesperson on health to find out on the news what the National Party health policy is around prescription charges. Make sure you switch on in a timely fashion because it changes with every news bulletin. First of all they were going to cancel the prescription charges and now they're going to bring them back in some muted way. But I can tell you that in my visits—and my email inbox is full of pharmacists saying that this is a good policy. It is a good policy for a number of reasons but most fundamentally because it makes sure people are healthy. Yes those people are our elderly our low-income people our weak and our vulnerable but what would they do? They would get rid of them. On the one hand we can take people's health seriously: removing prescription fees; 100000 healthier warmer homes; and national super to stay at age 65. The choice for New Zealand here is clear. What would they do? Impose prescription charges raise the super age and not fund healthier homes. Now the real policy driver over there sits a bit to one side really—doesn't it?—because it's a coalition that they're looking at and it is a chaotic coalition of cuts. They haven't even got a policy out there but I took some time to read the ACT Party's manifesto. Look KiwiSaver: we are going to fund KiwiSaver whilst parents are on parental leave to make sure that people when they end their working life aren't disadvantaged by looking after their kids. What would the other side do? Have a look at the policy—the alternative Budget that's out there. They would ditch the Government KiwiSaver subsidy. They would make people retire poorer. They would raise the superannuation age. That is appalling and it doesn't look after those that need it most.What would they do about carbon? How would they decarbonise? We've got the Clean Car Discount we've been putting money into rail and we're investing more into charging stations so that people can use their electric cars. What were they going to do on the other side of the House? Repeal the zero carbon Act. That is the policy that is out there at the moment. The great leap backwards is what we would get from the other side of the House in Government so think very carefully about the choice that you have. What are we going to do for children and families? Extend 20 hours' free childcare to under-twos. What would that side do? What's in their alternative Budget? End the Best Start payment—end the payment to give kids the best start that they can. That's what the coalition of cuts are going to do. They're going to try and find money by stealing kids' lunches basically. That's basically where we end up—taking food out of children's mouths.Here we are supporting our most innovative industries. We're supporting film. We're supporting our innovative gaming industry. I have received correspondence from gaming developers in Christchurch saying We need this. We will now stay and employ young people in Christchurch in this industry." What will the "coalition of cuts" do? Read their alternative Budget: ditch the film rebate—the rebate that has a thriving film sector in New Zealand. It is one of the lowest-carbon highest-value industries that we have and they would cut it off at the knees. So what have we got here? We've got a party on this side of the House who is willing to see New Zealand grow in a low-carbon way and to look after those that need it most and what do we have over there? Parties committed to a low-wage low-care economy. Over here we're growing wages we're growing the economy inflation is falling and what does the alternative Budget say? Freeze the minimum wage for three years. Over that side of the House that's what you'll be getting: freezing the minimum wage and they have the audacity to pretend that they're telling a high-wage story. It's absolutely false. It's unconscionable. This side of the House cares for people and we know that by growing the economy by putting money where it's needed and by building long-term and resilient infrastructure we can do that. Over there the chaotic "coalition of cuts" will undercut everything we've worked for and earned. This is the Government that does this. Stay here—vote Labour."