Parker DavidHon DAVID PARKER (Attorney-General): It is Budget day tomorrow. It'll be a great day for the Government it'll be a sad day for the Opposition and they'll be even quieter tomorrow than they were during that contribution. The greatest contribution we've had from the Leader of the Opposition in the last week has been trickle-down theory. Well what trickled down under the last Government? I'll tell you what trickled down: homeownership rates went down to the lowest since the 1950s. Homeownership rates for Māori and for young people—they didn't just trickle down; they plunged down. This Government's going to do something about that. What else went down? Under the last Government exports trickled down from 30 percent of GDP to 27 percent of GDP when they had an ambition to lift them to 40 percent of GDP.Tomorrow's Budget will do much good for New Zealand. There will be measures to strengthen the economy. There will be measures to rebuild some of our services. Everyone in New Zealand knows that our hospital sector is under pressure—you just need to go and see someone in hospital. People are running around—you know some of the facilities are a bit shabby. People are so overstretched it's obvious that there's been not enough taxpayer money going into the health service and we all know that most of us need to have a publicly funded health system in case something goes wrong for ourselves or those that are dear to us.I'm not going to take fiscal advice from Amy Adams or other members of the Opposition. Last time Labour was in Government we reduced gross Government debt from 38 percent to 18 percent of GDP. We reduced net Government debt from 18 percent of GDP to zero when you take into account financial assets like the Superannuation Fund—the super fund that of course the National Party paid no money into. What did National do? National borrowed an extra $49 billion and took net debt to well over 20 percent of GDP.We're going to do lots of good things in the Budget tomorrow but what we're not going to do is run a deficit. The fiscal responsibility rules that Grant Robertson outlined before the election are being adhered to by the Government. We will be in surplus. We will be showing a route back to net debt of under 20 percent of GDP.I want to say a little bit in the time I've got about the money that the Rt Hon Winston Peters has secured for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Another area of trickle-down under the last Government was that the amount that New Zealand spent on overseas development aid trickled down from 0.28 percent of gross national income to 0.23 percent of gross national income and the Budget bid that Mr Peters has secured takes it back to 0.28 percent of GDP before we do better in the future. Why is that necessary? Well there are pressures in the South Pacific that are varied. They relate to a diversity of factors at large in the Pacific and we need to take care to both help the Pacific and protect our interests in the Pacific.More broadly though the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade includes the word Trade". As the Rt Hon Winston Peters said in question time today it is a threatening time in our trading interests at the moment. There is rising protectionism. There are new tariffs against steel and aluminium. There are trade wars breaking out between different countries. There are non-tariff barriers going up everywhere. None of this is in the interests of New Zealand and we've got to fight even harder to secure our place in the world. This Government's got an enormous trade agenda on. We brought home the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and I acknowledge the work that Mr McClay did on that before he left but we've improved that and we've landed that.We've got work in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. We've got impending negotiations that the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister put an enormous amount of political effort into meeting Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel and other countries in Europe in order to get those negotiations under way. We've got the Pacific Alliance negotiations with parts of Central and South America under way. We've got the upgrade to the China free-trade agreement. We've got the upgrade to the Singapore agreement. We're doing all of these things. In the meantime of course we've had a hugely redistributive package in favour of some of these people who were not doing so well in society under the last Government in the 100 days and lots more good news tomorrow."