Collins Judith; Tolley AnneHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Might I congratulate you on your appointment and it's a delight to have you in this role.I don't want to embarrass my colleague the Hon Steven Joyce but I think I will just this once—well actually quite often really. Just this once. He won't ask for it because he's such a humble man but I'm going to ask for it: he needs an apology from the Hon Grant Robertson. He needs an apology for the disgraceful way that he was castigated during the election campaign over the $11.7 billion fiscal hole. And what we found today from Grant Robertson the new Minister of Finance—I'm trying not to laugh as I say that; I'm trying to actually give him that due—is that he doesn't even know what all these promises are going to cost. In fact how could he say to Steven Joyce This $11.7 billion hole is not correct it's all been costed and it's all right"—utter rubbish. It's probably going to be even more.From the Speech from the Throne just the other day—I was listening to it and I thought "I don't think there's been one of those with that degree of hopefulness of promises—with no money for it all those promises—since 1972" and we all know what happened to that Government. It's really important that when you're going to make these promises on the election trail when you come to ask the Speech from the Throne from the Governor-General to make huge promises on behalf of a new Government that there is actually some possibility of being able to deliver on them. Instead what we've seen today in the House in question time and yesterday and the day before is an utterly incompetent group of people who are Ministers in a Government that should not be there. That's what we've seen.These people have been in the role for three weeks. They've had the best help from the best Public Service that I have seen—the very best people who have been trying to help them to understand even the most basic parts of their job. Could we get an answer today from the Government that made sense? No we could not. What we heard was "Oh we'll come back to you when we've done a costing. Oh we'll come back to you when we've worked out what we're going to do. Oh I can't remember what I said four years ago when I was saying we should have an East-West link—and now suddenly I don't want it."That's the sort of response we got from an incompetent Government and they're not going to have much time to get better because we are going to hold this Government to account. We are going to ask why it is that we have political questions and attack points from the so-called Green Party all about talking about themselves and using a Government department as one of their advocates rather than allowing them to be a public service after all. That's what we're going to be doing.So when we go back to what this new Government has inherited they have inherited something that a National-led Government has never had the opportunity to inherit and that is actually a sound set of books; a country that is going places—upwards not down—a country where people want to come and live; a country with the lowest unemployment rate of any of our competitor countries; a country that actually took kids who were failing and helped to secure for them a future. What we've seen today is the petty nastiness of a Government that wants to take away from little kids who have been failed in the standard mainstream education system—to take away from them a chance of a better life because it doesn't suit the unions' ideology. That's what we've seen. It has been an absolute disgrace to see that today. We've had a Government whose Ministers have been happy to go out and to say that they're going to wipe out these contracts that they're going to ignore the law—which by the way is the law of New Zealand. They're going to do all of that and the kids who are going to have failed because of that they're the kids who are the most vulnerable.I've got a partnership school in my electorate and I am proud of the fact that there are people who are willing and able to help kids who in the mainstream system will simply fail and they'll fail because of all sorts of situations. But quite often if those kids are not allowed to succeed they will not only have a failure of an education but they will have a failure of a life and so will their children and grandchildren. And to see today the nasty little pettiness—and did we hear anything from the Speech from the Throne yesterday about these poor little kids? Oh yeah we did—that we're going to close down the schools that will help them. That's what we heard.What a nasty petty Government to do that. There are no children more worthy of our help as a country and by the way for taxpayers to help fund than these kids because their success actually means generations of success for families. Any of those of us who've had anything to do with working in or dealing with the justice sector the prison service all of these areas and even in our electorate offices we see families where there is intergenerational failure—failure in terms of education failure in terms of keeping to the law failure in terms of addiction all sorts of problems family violence; all the way through.This new brave Government that's going to be relentlessly positive for New Zealand has done nothing for those kids other than to make their lives more difficult. Let's spare a thought for the parents of those children. Let's just spare a thought for them. So they've got good parents trying to do their best—a child with difficulties a child who cannot function in the mainstream system because kids are not all born the same. That's something that you only really learn as a parent. Almost nothing prepares you for parenthood other than parenthood—nothing. I hate hearing people who have never had to deal with a situation where a child is being bullied is having difficulties because of teacher—Darroch Ball: Oh come on Judith. You're talking rubbish.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I know Darroch Ball thinks that's funny but I actually don't think that's funny. I think that people like Darroch Ball who come down to the House and who think that they're going to shout out and tell us over here—that they don't care. Well I don't care about people like Darroch Ball because people like him people like Darroch Ball they think more government is the answer to everything. Actually for those kids they just need the help they need the funding they need people who care and they don't need experts like Darroch Ball. If the expert is Darroch Ball I'd rather have the amateur any day.Actually when I think about this particular Speech from the Throne what did we hear? Well we're going to have 100000 new houses built by this new Government in 10 years. Well on my counting that's 10000 houses every year and by the way I've started counting. So with three weeks in I hope they're doing some foundation work. I wonder who's doing it for them. Isn't it funny how Governments like a Labour-led Government like to claim credit for the private sector the developers the people who actually take the risks in life the people who mortgage their own properties just so that they can actually get a development going get a subdivision going—the people who take the risks; the people who by the way pay the interest rates to the bank—that's how they do it.Unless Mr Twyford is going to set up a great big little building company which is going to be what? "Kiwi Building Housing"—whatever. It will have to be a Kiwi thing because they can't use the words "New Zealand" because apparently they don't like that but it's the "Kiwi Building Housing Company" that is going to be out building 10000 new houses a year. Well it's a jolly good thing for Mr Twyford and his Government that we have left from Government a situation where there has been job creation of 10000 jobs a month with 56000 jobs created in the last three months. It's such a good thing that the outgoing National-led Government has left enough money not only in the kitty but actually in people's pockets so that they can actually do something for themselves. They're not going to be hanging around waiting for Mr Twyford because the developers have been working for some years. They're working very hard taking a lot of risks and the one thing that's the big risk that they didn't want was a Labour-led Government.Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: I understand this next call is a split call. I call Jan Logie. I will give you a warning bell at one minute."