Dyson RuthHon RUTH DYSON (Labour—Port Hills): Can I thank the member from the ACT Party for his contribution to this debate. I found it one of the more uplifting from the Opposition's side and I appreciate the fact that he actually put some ideas on the table rather than the tirade of relentless negativity that we have heard from the other Opposition members. I now understand better why ACT and National have fallen out so much: because David Seymour continues to promote challenging and different ideas while the National Party does not.What I found really interesting about the National Party contribution this afternoon what I heard with every National Party speaker and I've got to be honest what I recognised from every National Party speech was that every single member got up and supported their current leader. Every single one of those members got up and said I support the Hon Simon Bridges as leader." How many were there four? Four? Four members.Hon Chris Hipkins: Five. Five.Hon RUTH DYSON: Five. Well some of them did it with a little less sincerity and a little less credibility and didn't use very expansive adjectives to describe how strongly they felt of him but the script was really clear: back up the leader say something nice and positive about the leader and then continue the rest of the four minutes and 30 seconds of a five-minute speech with the relentless negativity that has become the brand of the National Party.I think it's time for the National Party to cheer up. I think it's time for the National Party to get over the grievance that they feel about being dislodged from their natural place of being the Government and look at the contribution that is being made to improve New Zealand society. That once-proud party has now descended into a depressed and depressing group of people who are interested in their own future in their own promotion. They're sharpening their elbows nudging each other out of the way to get promoted up the ranks of the National Party. What they have been elected to this Parliament to do is make a contribution to making New Zealand a better place.In the meantime on this side of the House we have three parties who are working together. We have different perspectives different priorities. We are working together to build strong foundations for a better future for New Zealand and New Zealanders. That's important. That's what I think we were elected to do. We're fixing the long-term problems. Nine years of neglect we've been left with—nine years of underfunding in health and housing in education in investment in infrastructure and in supporting families. The National Party has the audacity to say "You've had one Budget; why haven't you fixed it already?" We have nine years of neglect to fix but this Budget this year laid a very strong foundation for our future. We are running surpluses. We are paying off debt and alongside that we are investing in health we're investing in housing we're investing in education and we're investing in police.We want to leave our country better for future generations not worse. We don't want the neglect that we've seen from the National-led Government in the past transferred to our children and grandchildren. It's our responsibility to improve the lives of future generations. We have a clear plan. The 100-day plan of action was put into force. I actually thought it was too ambitious. I was really nervous that that 100-day plan was not going to be delivered but every single policy in that 100-day plan was delivered within that 100 days. That's fantastic and every day we see more policies for improving the lives of ordinary New Zealanders working families being delivered by this Government.We know there's been huge pressure on families with the cost of living. This Government won't stand by while ordinary New Zealanders struggle to get by day after day struggle to pay the rent or struggle to pay the mortgage turn off the heaters because they can't afford a power bill and work hard every day and get a pittance in their wage packet. This Government won't accept that as being good enough for New Zealanders so we are improving the foundations for New Zealand. We will leave New Zealand and New Zealanders better off in the future.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."