Macindoe TimHon TIM MACINDOE (National—Hamilton West): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm sure it won't have been lost on the three New Zealanders who were still listening at the end of Mr McAnulty's contribution that he began by telling us that he didn't like whingers and he then spent five minutes doing nothing but.Residents of my fine city have long known and visitors to our town quickly come to discover that Hamilton is the most desirable city in our country. I'm pleased to say that we are still doing very well thanks to the fact that our citizens work hard they see great opportunities and we've got a steady influx of people coming from around the country wanting to share what we have and live there. But my constituents are noticing that their great efforts are not being matched by the Government's.We had at the beginning of the year the Prime Minister telling us that this would be the year of delivery. Well it has been anything but. Sadly because it's not very funny what has become very very clear is that despite their good intentions—and it is very clear that the Labour Party campaign slogan next year will be Well it was the thought that counts"—they are all utterly out of their depths and haven't a clue about what they are doing. Today Mr Little began this debate by crowing about the so-called achievements of his Government but couldn't really name any. He really spent most of his time just attacking us on the other side.Well let us look at what has happened. We've had KiwiBuild abandoned and its Minister sacked because it was such an abject failure. They didn't even get close to starting meeting their targets. The Ministry of Health recently published its 2018-19 quarter three health target data file on its website. It came pretty much quite a few months later than was expected—there's a story about that as well—and it showed that the health sector has been going steadily backwards in the time that David Clark has been the Minister. Importantly we've seen elective surgeries going backwards. We've seen vaccination rates falling behind despite the fact that at the moment we have a major epidemic around the country particularly in my part of the country and north of there with measles. No wonder the escalation is happening if the Government can't get on top of vaccination rates. We've got 17 of the 20 DHBs showing poor immunisation rates since before he became the Minister and 13 of them showing poorer performances against the faster cancer treatment targets.The National Party when we were in office pledged to increase police numbers and we were doing that. Labour came along and said "Oh anything you can do we can do better" but they haven't. They haven't got close to delivering on what they promised. Their gun buy-back scheme is increasingly raising concern around our communities. Good law-abiding people are doing as expected but what we are seeing is that the gangs and others who we definitely don't want having firearms in their possession are not fronting up to the buy-back opportunities and we should all be deeply worried about that because the Government hasn't got a clue how they're going to sort that out. Now Mr Speaker Hamilton West as you know is an urban electorate but we do provide vital services—particularly to the dairy industry—and we definitely appreciate that farming has long been the backbone of our economy. Well inexplicably it's becoming clearer by the day that the Labour Party hates farmers. This Government is determined to impose methane emissions reduction targets on our farmers that aren't supported by science that are not those which are being recommended by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment—they're far higher than he is suggesting—and that if adopted will simply drive our vital food production offshore to less efficient less emissions - friendly countries and at the same time this Government wants to hammer our primary sector and damage our collective livelihood with freshwater proposals that ignore the steady improvement we've been seeing in our waterways which began under National and which will impose huge costs with no economic analysis and which are causing huge anxiety in the farming sector. That feeling of anxiety is palpable and when I sat on the environment subcommittee in Hamilton a couple of weeks ago I became aware of just how widespread the distress is. We had a Budget earlier this year that was utterly underwhelming. It promised to deliver wellbeing but it actually has delivered very little. The first bill that they passed—under urgency of course—was another fuel tax increase. They are great at the tax idea. They're great at announcing with a big head of steam that they're going to spend money on this that and the other but they have not been delivering. They do not have a plan for what they are supposed to be doing. They haven't a clue how to govern the country and I look forward to this time next year when the country will quite rightly be throwing them out on their ear."