Carter DavidRt Hon DAVID CARTER (National): It's an absolute pleasure to take call in the third reading of the Families Package (Income Tax and Benefits) Bill. I listened to the contribution from the Minister of Finance Grant Robertson and I just wonder what planet that man is on. This isn't about as Dr Megan Woods said delivering to 88000 children and lifting them out of poverty.I know we're only 10 days out from Christmas but why is the Government passing a package that's so generous to me? I'm a huge beneficiary out of what's happening here. We're wiping the tax cuts that are currently in legislation ostensibly to make sure there's enough money for a tertiary package. I'm one of those people with three teenage kids about to start their university studies. So they're going to be better off—or potentially I'm going to be better off—by $10000 or $12000 for each one.Not only that then I looked through the legislation and found the winter energy payment there. I don't need to declare a conflict of interest I'm sure but I'm eligible for the $700 winter energy payment. I tell those members on the other side that I very much doubt that I'll spend that to lower my energy bill and I certainly assure members on the other side that I won't be one of those that opt out. If this Government is stupid enough to pass a package that they say is delivered to people in poverty and they spray around taxpayers' money as liberally as this and I'm a beneficiary give me one reason why I should opt out of that generosity.I do accept in my first reading speech that there was one other bonus that might have been available—the baby bonus. I'm not sure I'll make it. I'm not sure I'll make it so that might be a saving to the Government.I said earlier to my learned colleague the Hon Chris Finlayson that urgency is a wonderful team building exercise for the Opposition. I want to acknowledge the team that we've had here who have—[Interruption] Well Kieran McAnulty interrupts again. That's all he's done throughout the last 14 hours. I don't think he's taken a call apart to ask for one closure and I think that was lost because he got it wrong. I have never seen a Government through a period of urgency so demoralised—so demoralised—as this Opposition has presented hundreds and hundreds of amendments. They've all been voted down—not even considered by the Government for their merit in tidying up some very messy legislation.So what we've seen over the last 14 hours is a shambolic process but it's a continuation of 44 days of shambolic Government—shambolic Government. There are many many useful amendments that we offered in good faith to the Government. [Interruption] Kris Faafoi interjects again. I don't think he's taken a call in the last 14 hours. He's very vocal now as we get towards the end of urgency. Those amendments could have been very very useful but they were all rejected with arrogance.I have been around this place for a while. In my opinion arrogance normally comes after about three terms of Government. What we're seeing here is arrogance after about three weeks of Government. So God help New Zealand voters as we move towards the next election.Madam Speaker—ah Mr Speaker I should say. [Mr Speaker holding baby]Hon Tim Macindoe: A little bit of both.Rt Hon DAVID CARTER: I won't make any comment on that. But I do want to say to all members of this House that I won't be here next week so I want to take this opportunity of acknowledging the tremendous effort that's been put into this debate by my colleagues. I want to wish them the very very best for Christmas. They deserve a break. They've worked extremely hard.To the Government members I also take this opportunity of wishing you a very merry Christmas. Have a good break. But over that break just think about—Hon Chris Hipkins: Here it comes.Rt Hon DAVID CARTER: I'm not going to leave it there. Chris Hipkins wants me to leave it there. But I've got an important message particularly for the Leader of the House: Government's not about student politics Mr Hipkins. This stuff gets serious. The voters of New Zealand deserve a Government that's truly got to focus on the issues. As the Government members reflect over the Christmas break on what a shambles it's been in the last 44 days—what a shambles this urgency process has been with them—I want them to reflect on the fact that it won't be too long before this House needs to sit again and tidy up many of the inaccuracies and foolhardiness and stupidity that's been written into legislation tonight as we pass the Families Package (Income Tax and Benefits) Bill.As I said to the House earlier I don't consider myself a person that should have benefited by the benefits that are given in this bill but if the Government really thinks that I'm in desperate financial circumstances and wants to extend its largesse and generosity to me well I'd be silly not to take it and I intend to. So I say to those members as they reflect over the Christmas break just remember that with the perks comes responsibility.