Coleman Jonathan: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeColeman Jonathan: General Debate[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11256. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN (Minister of Health): What a lot of bluff and bluster from Grant Robertson. That is all it is: the usual lack of substance. No work done all year and all he has got is to try to shoot down the Budget tomorrow. And of course he does not even know what is in it. The one fact that we got out of that speech is that Labour will raise taxes. He said it there. He is going to raise taxes for all New Zealanders.What I think is going to be very interesting when you see Grant Robertson produce some alternative budget—which of course he has not bothered to do—is to total up those spending promises because Annette King has already said that Labour is going to put $1.7 billion in over the next 3 years if it gets the chance before it even puts new money in. So if you listen to its figures where it is saying $600-700 million of new money it is talking about $2.4 billion into health. Frankly that is unaffordable. There will be no surplus; there will be ongoing deficits. It will be bad for New Zealand internationally in terms of our credit rating. And I can tell you what: the voters will not like it. Because the only way that Labour can fund that is with higher taxes.The problem for Labour is that it is just about more money. It is not about results. It is not about doing things better. In the health portfolio all it did was spend more and more and more and yet at the same time it delivered 2000 fewer operations over that period. It was sending people to Australia for cancer care waiting lists were blowing out Annette King was acting as a one person - culling machine people were kicked off lists—it was a mess. What we have done is bring the health system back to where we are now focusing on results. So yes there is more money going in—$4 billion more under this Government—but more important we are focused on the results that that actually delivers. So you can see an extra 50000 operations a year another 110000 appointments per year no one going to Australia for cancer care and over 6000 more doctors and nurses. More money has gone into mental health. More money is going into the disability sector. We have had a focus on consistently providing more services to more Kiwis.I am not sure whether members saw the TV news on Sunday night but at about item 6 it flashed to a gathering of what looked like an old Socialist Unity Party meeting from 1981. There amidst the pompom hats the nylon raincoats and the mugs of tea somewhere in the back there you could see the odd Labour MP. Annette King was too smart to be there. Kris Faafoi of course found himself in the front row. Trevor Mallard was trying to hide behind an umbrella in the fourth row. And then on came a man who looked nothing like a Prime Minister—he could not even get a tie on. I can tell you to describe Andrew Little as dull does not do justice to the experience because frankly he had that crowd in a catatonic thrall. They just could not get away. All that came out of that speech was actually that Andrew Little thinks that Kiwi families are $50 a week worse off.Well the facts just do not bear that out because wages have been growing faster than inflation unemployment is below 6 percent tens of thousands of jobs have been created and export sectors—the wine industry the IT industry tourism—are taking off like a rocket. These are actually great economic times for New Zealand providing great opportunities for New Zealanders. If you get out and you talk to the average person in the street they know that. We focused on what matters. You will have heard James Shaw before you know calling for all sorts of restrictions and taxes and all sorts of things and it is just ironic that the people who want more spending on health and education and all public services are the same people who want to limit the ability of the economy to grow. Fundamentally that is the problem that the Green Party has.We have spent our time in the last 8 years focusing on what is important to New Zealanders. It is the economy. It is economic growth. It is jobs. It is the health system where people are getting access to the treatment that they need. It is the education system. We have brought in national standards where parents can actually understand what their kids are getting out of the education system. And it is law and order where actually we have done a very good job on bringing down serious crime. So when you get outside this Chamber and speak to real New Zealanders who talk about the things that matter to them they tell you that the National Government is delivering. And we will continue to do so in Budget 2016.