Mitchell ClaytonCLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): Thank you Mr Speaker and a big happy Halloween to you and to the House all right? Nobody's mentioned that so far. The kids around the country will be getting all dressed up. Some of you lot don't have to get dressed up; you're already scary enough all right. Mr Speaker you're well-dressed up sir and you do look a little bit scary in that outfit I have to say. We have had a little bit of Halloween over the last nine years of the previous Government in actual fact—nine years of trick or treating but without the treating just trickery. In fact the last 12 months have been quite refreshing because we have had a lot of treating and I'm going to talk about that as part of my contribution.There's a lot of doom and gloom over that side but we are quite buoyant on the direction that we're taking this Government. The trickery I talk of is the previous Government talking about their strong economic leadership. Well what absolute trickery that is because in the nine years that they were in Government they only managed one—just one—Budget surplus. How appalling is that for people that actually say that they can actually deliver strong economic outcomes?They talk about looking after New Zealanders but in their term of Government they managed to give the top 10 percent the very wealthy in our country a $440 million payback. It worked out to be about $440 million that the former Government gave back to their rich mates—not looking after the most vulnerable. I'll talk about what we have got that we're working on that we're actually implementing and that we've got well and truly under way. That's not to mention the $24 million that that previous Government wasted on a flag referendum that was a vanity project for their leader that the entire country railed against and didn't want to take any part of. What about the $11 million that that previous Government threw to Saudi sheep farmers to build an abattoir so we could send all of our livestock over there creating jobs in the Middle East and taking away opportunities for our Kiwis to get real jobs? That's the trickery that we saw for nine years.But wait—but wait there's more. I actually think they've given up. I think the people over there have given up. They want to go home. Last night we were in the House and we had three bills on the Order Paper and it was the committee stage for three of those bills which would normally take up enough time. Now we went through nearly 18.5 hours' worth of committee stage in 4½ hours flat because they didn't want to take calls. Their lips were down their heads were down—I've never seen such a sorry sight in all my life.Chris Bishop: Where were you Clayton?CLAYTON MITCHELL: Oh the man down the back Mr Bishop pipes up. What was it—it was tedious repetition" I think that you were just referred to as by the Speaker. I just about commended you sir. I wanted to take a point of order just to thank you for that because I'd been thinking the very same thing: tedious.SPEAKER: Order! No. I'm going to take it off the member's time. I just want to warn people that it is a five-minute speech. I hit the wrong button on the clock so those people who think it's been a long time or it's going to be a long time—it's not going to be that much longer. But the member will not refer to my rulings after they've been made.CLAYTON MITCHELL: Thank you Mr Speaker. I will take that on board but I don't know what time I've got left. Can you give me some indication?SPEAKER: The member just did it again.CLAYTON MITCHELL: I was just looking at the time. Sir thank you. So in the time that I have got left I'll talk about the wins that we've had because time is going fast and the people in New Zealand want to know what sorts of things we've done. We've given free GP visits for under-14-year-olds—thank you very much New Zealand. Thank you very much—you're welcome. We've increased research and development to $1 billion and we've taken it from 12.5 percent to 15 percent—that's right. What about the $1 billion for our Provincial Growth Fund in the last 12 months that we're extending to $3 billion over three years.All this and a lot more and we've still got a surplus in our first 12 months. So people back home are absolutely outstandingly pleased that we've got 1800 new police on their way coming up; we've got a billion-tree programme on its way—Hon Peeni Henare: One billion trees.CLAYTON MITCHELL: One billion trees that's right. We've got a commitment to increase police numbers which I've talked about. We've got $1 billion going into foreign affairs to open up new embassies and to help out those countries and to develop trade and create wealth opportunities for our Government and for this country moving forward. We're cracking down—there's a $34 million funding boost into Immigration New Zealand and we've doubled the Limited Service Volunteers from 800 to 1600.I can keep going on. It goes on and on. We're enhancing defence force capabilities with our great Minister Ron Mark down here in front of me—$367.7 million over four years and $42.3 million in capital funding for modernisation. Not to mention the time that I spent in Opposition battling just to get some extra dollars and funding from the Hon Maggie Barry over here who underfunded—[Time expired]"