Hutchison Paul: General Debate 
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Hutchison Paul: General Debate 
[Sitting date: 11 May 2011. Volume:672;Page:18570. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON (National—Hunua) 
: 
 It would be wonderful if Mr Hodgson concentrated on relevancy but instead once again we have a tirade of trivia emanating from that man.  
In 1854 a little before the New Zealand Wars a madcap almost suicidal charge by 600 cavalrymen was memorialised by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The last few weeks of political life in New Zealand could be likened to the Charge of the Light Brigade. After all we have Hone on the left of us Don on the right of us and Phil in between us wriggling and writhing. His not to reason why his but to do and die. Andrew Little will make him cry sooner or later. The question is when Andrew Little will run the sabre through. Will it be before the election— 
Chris Auchinvole 
: It can be any time. 
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON 
: —any time—or after the election? We know that Andrew Little is going up and down the country doing the numbers. The likes of Mr Hipkins have been talked to by Andrew Little. The sabre could be run through at any old time.  
What does it matter? Labour is in tatters. It has no plan. All its members can talk about is trivia. That is what they immerse themselves in. Mr Goff the leader of the Labour Party is the very man who should be talking about substance. Perhaps one of the only things he has done substantially is sell off New Zealand State-owned enterprises probably more than anyone else in the history of the New Zealand Parliament but now he has changed his mind. Now he has changed his mind.  
Then we have Annette King the lady who in 1998 said that a waiting list of 89000 was criminal. She went on to build the biggest health bureaucracy in the history of the world with a waiting list of 130000 from which she culled 10000 at a time. Productivity in health went nowhere despite her increasing spending from $6 billion to $12 billion. One of the reasons why New Zealand is in the dire situation it is in is that we had Ministers like her doubling expenditure but not looking at productivity.  
Then there is the Hon David Cunliffe the man of the people who looks after his downtrodden constituents by remote control from his upmarket house in St Marys Bay. He was the man whose polling went up when he left for Tokyo. It actually went up.  
Then there is Shane Jones. Members probably saw him on  
Make the Politician Work  
on Sunday night. What happened? He went to sleep. He went out on that boat past the Manukau Heads and they required a fire alarm to wake him up. He was supposed to go out and help fishing but if he had not had the fire alarm then he probably would have been out there for 3 days and come back still having not realised that he was supposed to be working. We certainly cannot rely on him.  
Thank goodness for the John Key - led National Government. Thank goodness for the solid set of achievements in a raft of areas that the Government has been focused on. For instance there is more elective surgery 1000 more nurses 500 more doctors and shorter waiting times for radiotherapy.  
I will concentrate for one moment or two on the very fine feat in immunisation that has been achieved by the National Government over the last few years. In 2007 only 67 percent of our 2-year-olds were immunised. The number is now 88 percent. This is an incredible improvement. Recently—only last week—$54 million was put into maternity services. We have a forward-looking progressive National Government that is looking after the future of our children.