Willis NicolaNICOLA WILLIS (National): New Zealanders are sick of hearing about how good they've got it from a Government who talks the talk but cannot walk the walk. Instead of indulging in self-congratulations about how good their COVID response has been instead of back-slapping each other over their latest announcement and getting sucked in by their own spin Ministers and members opposite need to understand what it is really like for struggling Kiwis right now.I want the members opposite to think about the Aucklanders who have spent more than 100 days in lockdown. Many still don't have their kids back at school full-time and to learn today that the Director-General of Health said they could've been out of those restrictions. I want members opposite to think of those who are in Auckland and still can't leave for a funeral or a wedding of a loved one. I want members opposite to think about the businesses who are continuing to struggle under restrictions with no certainty about when those restrictions will end. And when they've done thinking about that I want members opposite to think about what it's like for Kiwis when the cost of living is outstripping wage growth 2:1. How does that feel at the supermarket each week and at the petrol pump each fortnight? I want members opposite to think about what it feels like when rents go up $90 a week under Labour—that makes it tough—and when house prices go up $170000 on average a year. How does it feel to be someone who wants to buy their own first home in this country? It feels like it's impossible under Labour to climb that mountain.When members opposite talk about how they've done a great job I want to remind them of this: they took $50 billion of New Zealanders' hard-earned cash and they said they'd spend it on COVID recovery. So did they spend it on a single extra ICU bed in our hospitals? No they didn't. Instead they spent it on a private Green School in the Taranaki and $27 million for wallaby control. Members opposite need to remember that that is not their money they are spending. That money belongs to hard-working New Zealanders.All of that is pretty bad—the Government's not getting the basics right so you ask yourself But are they doing what they promised they would do when they were elected?" And this is where the failures are writ so large. Let's talk about housing. Let's talk about the hundred thousand KiwiBuild homes that were promised. How many have been built today? It is a disgrace—the number is 1230. There should have been 20000 by now. What a disgrace. There are now 19000 more people on the State house waiting list. That's the homelessness that the Prime Minister said she was going to solve—19000 more people waiting for a house.The Prime Minister said that the real reason she was in politics was because she was concerned about child poverty. Well I'm concerned about the cycle of dependence that this so-called kind Government is entrenching where there are 70000 more people on a job seeker benefit during a time of high employment. Do you know what the real result of that is? The real result of that is more children growing up in benefit-dependent households dependent on the State growing up assigned to material hardship. Thousands more children in those benefit-dependent homes and there are 5000 families raising their children in motel rooms—this under the administration that said it was here to solve child poverty.They also said they were here to solve the climate change emergency didn't they? Well since they made that declaration guess how many tonnes of coal they've imported into this country: 931000 tonnes of coal. It's a record—and that's their response to the climate change emergency.What we have opposite us is a Government who have announced announcement after announcement. They have spoken from the podium of truth but have not delivered for the people they are here to serve. We're National we're back and we're going to make sure that Kiwis get a much better deal come 2023."