van de Molen Tim; Mallard TrevorTIM VAN DE MOLEN (National—Waikato): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well it's an interesting week and I think this place often ends up that way but we can start by looking at what we're hearing in the news about New Zealand First's funding streams. They have always had some unique funding avenues and I think it just highlights some of the unique characteristics this Government has. Whilst they might claim on that side that they are delivering for New Zealanders I think we need to ask: are New Zealanders actually feeling better off under this Government? Quite clearly in the Waikato the answer is no. They have been let down time and again by this Government failing to deliver. Broken promises left right and centre—all over the show they have failed to help New Zealanders. We heard just before about ordinary New Zealanders. Well I'm not entirely sure what an ordinary New Zealander is but in the Waikato we have thousands of extraordinary New Zealanders who are going above and beyond every day to make the best they can in their jobs in their communities and for their families and they are feeling let down by this Government—extraordinary New Zealanders every day trying to be better off. Business owners employees people participating in community activities—whatever it may be they are feeling they are not better off under this Government. You can look at some of the basic stats: the number of people on benefits have increased significantly homeless numbers have increased rent costs have gone up as well. Actually even in strong rural areas like the Waikato some of those aspects impact on us and our provincial rural towns—towns like Matamata towns like Morrinsville. When I talk to constituents throughout those towns I ask them how they're doing. How's business going? Are you feeling better off under this Government?" Kieran McAnulty: The member asks them like that?TIM VAN DE MOLEN: And the resounding answer is clearly no. Mr McAnulty might make fun of talking to constituents and perhaps I guess he doesn't understand that since he has none but I would encourage him to get out and try talking to people in the electorates. It's a novel approach. This Government should try it a bit more. We've seen far too often they are curtailing what we would expect as a standard democratic process. You can look at any number of pieces of legislation that have gone through this House that have had a curtailed select committee process. The typical attitude from this Government is that they know best. The arrogance of it to assume they know more than people throughout New Zealand—those extraordinary New Zealanders who are every day doing their best in their particular fields of interest are being let down time and again and this Government needs to wake up and smell the roses.We're seeing huge uncertainty in the business sector and I hear that around my electorate. Businesses that are employing tens of staff hundreds of staff throughout our communities—a massive contribution they make to the economic wealth and benefit and prosperity within our regions. They're saying "Well actually I don't feel confident under this Government." and we see that in the business confidence stats. So they're not making investment decisions they're not making hiring decisions—some of those considerations that this Government just doesn't seem to get when they think about trying to make people better off: "everyday New Zealanders" whatever that term is.It's the same in the farming sector. We saw just last week out on the forecourt here at Parliament a massive protest led by the 50 Shades Of Green movement. Farmers from around the country—and there were farmers from the Waikato that had travelled down which shows how passionate they are to represent their industry and express their concerns with the policy settings this Government is putting forward. Far too many aspects within that are focused on the farming sector negatively. Everyone would agree there needs to be change and improvement; the farming sector accepts that. But actually it's not just a farming issue. This is for all of New Zealand to improve and these policies are letting farmers down. Despite prices being at very good levels interest rates being at very low levels and actually weather conditions being pretty good—the three factors that typically underpin farming confidence it is the lowest it has been in decades. That is clearly driven by the uncertainty this Government is stoking into the sector and the rhetoric that comes out from this Labour-led Government and their New Zealand First supporters.It's not good enough and sadly we're seeing that play out in a range of areas. We just talked yesterday about the mental health commission being set up and I do commend them on that because that is a great piece of work. There are far too many New Zealanders suffering from mental health. Sadly in rural New Zealand we've seen that increasing in terms of suicide rates; that has gone up. Urban New Zealand is trending down which is fantastic. In rural New Zealand that's not the case. So we need to see more front-line services and we need to see it sooner. A significant increase in investment there is fantastic but it needs to be playing out in front-line services.That's before we even get on to some of the transport issues which I want to touch on briefly before we finish. So a whole range of areas that were feeling let down broken promises and a failure to deliver. And I would just reiterate the letters I wrote to the Prime Minister and transport Minister. Road safety is critical. Karapiro School that intersection I want to see the Ministers there to fix it.SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."