Bayly Andrew; Rurawhe AdrianANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm just so glad that we had Mr Parker explaining that in such clarity—absolute clarity. Why didn't you say it as if you meant it Mr Parker? One other thing Mr Parker: I think you need to get out and about a bit more because we've been out and about. I've been in Auckland Hamilton Wellington Blenheim and Invercargill and they're not telling me that this Budget's a good thing. They're not saying that.So what we were expecting in this Budget: well we were expecting a pathway back to prosperity. We need to see a road map so people know where we're going as a country so that we can get this country growing again faster and that's what's missing in this Budget. I've got to say: where is the ambition of the Labour Government? It just wants to wallow around in the old stuff. What we want to see is a pathway so that we can actually grow create new jobs because when people create new jobs not only do we get our 200000 people off the benefit but the Government in time gets revenue so it can invest in hospitals schools roads and rail—all those things that New Zealanders are so desperate for.I think if you compare this Budget to the Australian Budget there are some stark differences. The Australians did the same things. They first of all concentrated on the most vulnerable and that is correct. They certainly identified women as one of the most vulnerable. This Budget for New Zealand we certainly had an element of that and I'm going to talk about that. But what this Budget misses and the Australian Budget did highlight and spend a fortune on is good packages good reforms good initiatives to help grow their economy. I've got to say to you why that is important. The issue is that Mr Robertson thinks it's OK to double the debt from today $100 billion to nearly $200 billion over the next three to four years. I just think we need to ask ourselves: why is Mr Robertson so comfortable continuing to run a situation where the Government can't pay its way? Effectively it is borrowing money to pay the interest bill.Just to put it in context this Government borrowed $110 million yesterday will borrow $110 million today and will borrow another $110 million tomorrow. That means in a one-week spend-up of borrowing it we effectively could've got enough money to build a super-duper regional hospital or if we do it for two weeks which will happen over the course of this parliamentary session that we are in right now Mr Woodhouse could have his brand new Dunedin Hospital for which we've waited for three years for this Government to sign off the business case—three years of delay. Or I could've had and Mrs Collins could've had our new $1.4 billion Mill Road in Auckland or over a course of eight weeks we could've spent the entire amount fixing up Wellington's transport woes—$6.4 billion. That is the scale of the borrowing that this Government is prepared to do. I've got to say to you: debt is an albatross around our neck because it removes our potential to deal with future issues such as earthquakes; calamities as we've just seen over the weekend; but also just in terms of our trading arrangements all those sorts of stuff. It gives us the ability to be flexible and to have a capability to be resilient. This Government just thinks it should be piling on the debt to make that happen.I've got to say with the emphasis on the benefits—$3.3 billion worth of money spent on the benefits—I think it was understandable that the Government devoted a certain amount of money towards this issue. But I just don't know—what is it about the mother of all Budgets" from Ruth Richardson from 1991? Most of them can't even remember it. I'd say to you the short history lesson is that under Bill English we increased benefits by $25 a week the first time in 40 years when we did it when we were last in Government. So somehow there is no sense of history in this Labour Government.But why is it having to do the increase in the benefits? Well I'll say to you the reason it has to do it is it's of its own making. The Labour Government has seen a $100 increase in rents per week since it came to office over three years ago and that is largely a result of its own policies it put in place. Then we've seen these massive increases in power prices and let me say to you as a business person and as a homeowner we are yet to see the price increases in electricity that are going to come through. They are borne by the action of the Prime Minister to so rashly close down the oil exploration which immediately saw all our oil companies disappear overseas. That should've been a transitional programme. What we saw was someone trying to get the highlights overseas.So what we've seen is the Government dealing with the issue of beneficiaries. That is an issue that needs to be dealt with but I'll say to you: what about all those other New Zealanders those low-income earners in New Zealand and what about our superannuitants? Did they see anything in this Budget? Absolutely nothing. This Budget was devoted to the beneficiaries and our low-income New Zealanders who get out every day go and do a job—they didn't see any upside in this Budget. I think it's very very unfortunate.So where are the areas that we expected more? Well I think we should've seen more support round businesses. What we've seen from this Government over the past three years is this continual socking of additional costs on our small businesses: the increase in the minimum wage at such a rapid escalation—no one's against increasing it over time but they're huge increases that have been imposed—the additional sick pay the additional public holiday and also all the electricity costs that have come through. We should be supporting our businesses. We should be working with them much more in an aligned fashion. We should be making sure that they've got capital at the right moment. We should be ensuring that they are more innovative. We should be doing what the Australians did putting an incentive to invest in much more modern plants and equipment so our productivity increases over time. That's what we should've seen in this Budget.Secondly we should've seen a move to diversify our economy. We all accept the loss of international tourism and students coming to New Zealand. We need to diversify this economy and what have we seen from this Government? Absolutely no focus on it—only $44 million towards a bit of training around digital stuff. It is ridiculous. We need a Government that has a vision of how it's going to make sure that this economy is much more resilient and that means an economy with strong productive sectors in it well-resourced with the money that they have and prepared to take on the risk.We should also be seeing more support about regional businesses. We are concerned about the hollowing out of the West Coast and places like that—I'm looking here at Maureen Pugh. We do not want to see people leave that area because they don't have a viable job. We want to make sure that there are still people who are prepared to join the fire brigade down there. That means being clear about the policies not Mr Nash walking around the country handing out a few dollars here and there with no real strategy.There is a pressing need for housing and again we've got 23000 people waiting to get in a house. It is an outrage for this country. It is absolutely dreadful that there was no specific innovative approach in this Budget to make sure that this issue is dealt with and dealt with quickly.What did we see in health? Well we saw $200 million go into Pharmac which was even less than we promised in the last Budget—and we would've done more in this Budget. But what did we see? We saw lower operating funding for our district health boards (DHBs). What did we really see? We saw half a billion dollars directed to restructuring our DHBs our hospitals. This is after a year where our doctors and our nurses have worked so hard to get us through the COVID. This Government this Labour Government thinks the best thing we should do is immediately put them into a restructuring reorganisation of our hospitals. Again it is illogical it is insensitive and what's more mental health is still a burning sore for this Government. In the 2019 Budget $900 million was promised and Mr Doocey what has been spent: $130 million—that's all. That's all—less than 20 percent.We need a Government that cares for people gets on and creates a more dynamic economy—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."