Parmar ParmjeetDr PARMJEET PARMAR (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's great to have the last say in today's general debate. This side is not afraid of doing things that are right for New Zealand unlike this Labour-led Government. They are in Government just by chance. They are in Government just because of the grace of the New Zealand First Party—or shall I say the New Zealand First Party's board. They were in Opposition for nine years and they have no plan. We have seen they lack the ability and organisation to run this country.They have very quickly reverted back to that tax and tax" Labour Government as we saw with the regional fuel tax legislation last night before the House. Yes Aucklanders don't need that legislation; Aucklanders don't need another burden of another tax. Yes we do need transport mechanisms; we do need more infrastructure—but there should be other ways of funding that.The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has no time to see what's happening in her party—maybe she's too busy looking for Russian spies.When they found themselves in Government because they didn't have any plan to cover up that they came up with an idea—that idea is to set up working groups after working groups. With the nurses' pay dispute there is going to be an advisory panel—so it's working groups advisory panels and reviews.Their legislative programme is weak and I suggest that they can bring legislation before the House that would make their legislative programme interesting as well. That legislation should be to legislate that in the next election—which could be before 2020 looking at the state of this Government—on the ballot paper instead of the names of the Labour politicians it should be the names of people that they will appoint on working groups if they ever get back in Government because it's those people on working groups actually running this country not these politicians in Government.We have seen that their policies are failing—yes already we have seen that. Their tertiary fees-fee education policy—we have seen there has been a negligible increase in the number of enrolments. And yes they can go ahead and set up another working group to establish why that policy didn't work and I know that working group will come back and say that that policy was never meant to increase enrolments but that policy was meant to be just a vote-grabbing policy—exactly a vote-grabbing policy. This Government is just a self-serving Government not serving New Zealand.As the spokesperson on research science and innovation I'm appalled to see the lack of commitment from this Government for research science and innovation. There is big talk just like in other policy areas of increasing science and research and development spending and that is to 2 percent of the GDP in 10 years. But what we have seen when it comes to funding—actually we have seen funding cut in Primary Growth Partnership that was for research and development. You don't increase spending in R & D by cutting research and development spending.Then the Minister is really busy going around launching and celebrating programmes that were put in place by the previous National Government. So yes the Minister formally launched a programme that has been in place since 2015—put in place by the previous National Government. And last week there was an event in Parliament to celebrate the success of National Science Challenges—and again I want to remind the Minister that it is really important that when she is going around launching those programmes formally and celebrating those programmes she should acknowledge that those programmes were put in place by the previous National Government and stop pretending that these programmes are put in place by her or this Labour Government.Science and innovation is important for the creation of jobs and to support the economy. The Government lack that understanding. They don't have the interest of New Zealand at their heart; it is this Opposition that champions that. Thank you.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."