Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. This has been an absolutely tremendous year and I want to thank people from right across New Zealand from right across the political spectrum from all walks of life who have come to support ACT and they've come to support ACT for a couple of simple reasons. They see politics not working in New Zealand. They see a Government that leads by spin that dissembles and that's one party but the other that vacillates and goes from one jibe to the other sometimes playing me too" and sometimes criticising with negativity. That's why people come to ACT. They see that at the end of all this they have a country that is among the last to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic except maybe China.The only other country that is trying to maintain an elimination strategy is the Chinese Communist Party - governed People's Republic of China. We nearly ended up in an elimination bloc of countries where one country's a communist dictatorship and the other one is China. But we are leaving the elimination strategy last in the world with a mountain of debt and rising prices to boot because we've been sustained through this pandemic by two oceans—the literal oceans that have kept the virus from our shores. Isn't it incredible the way the Prime Minister congratulates herself almost daily for quarantining a remote group of islands in the far stretch of the Pacific?The other oceans that have sustained New Zealand through are the oceans of printed and borrowed money that they've pumped into the economy. Well the chickens are coming home to roost and New Zealanders—hard-working middle New Zealand—are squeezed from every angle as those oceans of cheap money that sustain this Government's COVID response start to overwhelm them with rising prices at the petrol pump at the supermarket. Hell we even heard yesterday that it could be $7 for a cup of coffee. Isn't that going to hurt the Labour Party beltway?We will as a country pass through the debt. We will pay it down in a generation. New Zealand has been through this before but there are so many things we could do to make it easier. And here's one simple example: we are not going to allow our universities our schools our colleges to compete in the world for international students until April or maybe even August depending on which country they're from. In Canada and Australia the universities the education sector have the welcome mat out and are competing for international students right now for the year 2022.Then there's the supply of labour for our horticultural industries for skilled labour for so many businesses trying to grow—they can't get people and when there's no one to work the wages are going up and every price with it.Now can the Government explain why it's going to be safe to open up the borders in a month's time for some people in four months' time for others? It's safe to do it today in New South Wales but it's not safe to do it in New Zealand. Of course they can't and they do not understand the cost that they're imposing. But like I say we will survive this expensive—you know the Prime Minister calls it "cautious"; I call it "costly response to COVID-19". But this country is being damaged in much more profound ways.You just have to ask yourself if the Director-General of Health says we don't need any roadblocks in Northland why are the police still operating them? Well the answer is they are there to babysit a minority of so-called leaders from Northland such as Hone Harawira who have said they're going to cause trouble anyway if the police aren't there. That's the truth. And the people I represent in central Auckland they don't get the cops coming when their stores are robbed and they call them because the police are busy manning borders the public health advice says shouldn't even exist.That's the real damage this Government is doing. Instead of creating an inclusive society we don't even know who's running the cops anymore in this country. There is a better way. ACT offers a better way and we thank so many people who have come to support us as they see it. Thank you Mr Speaker."