Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): That was a long 10 minutes wasn't it? My goodness! Do you know what? I was listening to the Hon Phil Twyford yesterday. I was one of the only kind people who bothered to listen and I was waiting for him to mention that word KiwiBuild". Did I hear it? I did not no. Remember KiwiBuild? It was going to bring 100000 houses to New Zealanders. Everyone was going to have one it was going to be great—Hon Member: How's that going?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Oh I think they've got about a hundred. It's only 18 months and $2 billion. I'm just quoting the Hon Shane Jones of course—billion dollars billion dollars. Two billion dollars and a hundred houses—I could've popped down to the shop and bought some because that's where Phil Twyford thinks houses come from.What we did not hear from Phil Twyford is anything about what's happening with this reset. In January this year we got told KiwiBuild targets were going to be reset. It was going to be a rethink. It's sort of recalibrate and I think it's actually going to be a retreat. So what we've got now is we have six months down the—Simeon Brown: What about a "resign"?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Well it could well be a resign Mr Simeon Brown Pakuranga—excellent MP. It could well be a resign. The fact is that Phil Twyford has been struggling terribly with KiwiBuild and it is of course as a kind and caring person something I wish to feel pity for him on but it's so difficult because of my colleague Denise Lee first-term MP asking written questions of Phil Twyford and the very sneaky meetings he was having with Phil Goff his former boss who's Mayor of Auckland and the Hon David Parker to talk about I don't know urban development—all those things. There's an email released by David Parker's office and not released by Phil Twyford's office—but apparently it's actually from Phil Twyford's office—saying "Let's have this as one of those little secret meetings where we're not going to talk about anything that's not political." so no ministerial responsibility. I think that's excellent work but looking for what Phil Twyford was up to well he obviously didn't talk about KiwiBuild because nothing's happened.There's something funny going on with KiwiBuild and at the moment I've been going around with our colleague Andrew Bayly MP for Hunua and building construction spokesman and we've been talking to a lot of property developers. Every time they come in the door they're wanting to talk about KiwiBuild. Why? They are laughing about it and I keep saying to them "Look you've got a great welfare scheme. Nothing can beat a welfare scheme for property developers." Imagine if the National Party in Government had come up with a property developers' welfare scheme. But they're going one better. What they're doing at the moment is they're now talking to great big enormous corporate entities; you know those great big enormous corporate entities some of which have foreign shareholders—no foreign shareholders—and they're talking about having these foreign corporate people as well as some New Zealand enormous corporate people build—Hon Scott Simpson: What do the names sound like?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: —some of them. But they've all got "Kiwi" in them apparently so it makes it all right.What they're doing is they're going to talk to them about building great big apartment blocks to house people for renting for life—renting for life. That sounds excellent doesn't it? It sounds excellent until one thinks who's going to own the building and who's going to get all the rent? Oh that's going to be the big foreign-type corporate people. And after that what's going to happen—how are they going to get all this stuff done? Well Phil Twyford's got the deal for them and guess what it is? You'll never guess what it is. He's going to let them have all this Crown land around places like Auckland that is currently unoccupied and unused and they don't have to pay for it—no not for ages and ages and when they do come to pay for it it won't be worth much because it's already at a set price; it's going to be a deferred payment. Now what numpty would ever do that? The answer is that would be somebody of the sort of the Hon Phil Twyford who is the property developers' closest and dearest friend and now he's the big corporate friend. So when I've been talking to these people they say to me "What do you think about this?" I kind of think if a National-led Government did this what would be the howls of derision from the other side of Parliament? Would they be saying "This is great corporate welfare for the rich end of town."? Of course they would be saying it and why are they not saying it now? Because they're the ones who are being conned into it. These people in charge in KiwiBuild and all the other entities—by the way it's only $2 billion in last year's Budget. There's about $500 million here there and everywhere. It's only money. It's only other people's money. It's only money that hard-working New Zealanders who pay their taxes have paid for. It's money that is something that people should expect this Government will respect and use with discretion. But no let's just funnel it off to the big corporates—funnel it off there and ask them "How many ways would you like us to pay you?" That's what's happening. This is an entire Budget about broken promises. Never before have we seen the Government be able to spin a botched Budget and call it a wellbeing Budget. Well remember this promise about no new taxes? Oh I don't know there's only seven to date. Seven—seven—to date. How about the $10 cheaper doctors visit for all? Sorry not in this Budget. Hon Mark Mitchell: Yeah where's the $10?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: No that's going to the property developers in the KiwiBuild scheme. If you put away Mr Mitchell $2 billion for the property developers of Wānaka Te Kauwhata Canterbury and anywhere else—McLennan Park in Papakura—there's really not $10 left for the poor little kids who can't—Hon Mark Mitchell: What about the teachers?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: —go to the doctors. And the teachers—and what about the teachers? What a good question. Early childhood education funding—100 percent qualified they said. We're going to have all of that. Oh sorry not in this Budget. How about ensuring all students have access to mobile digital devices? Oh no not in this Budget. How about the promise to increase the age of breast screening to 74? No not in this Budget. How about the cancer drugs for the women the youngish women in their 40s—actually very young really frankly 40—who are dying of terminal cancer and drugs that are available in Australia are not here in New Zealand because there's no money for Pharmac to pay for them? Now how about that? I don't know. I can tell you. There's $2 billion in KiwiBuild that you can strike right now and take. How about the promise to get debt below 20 percent of GDP? Oh that's easy; this Budget's increased the target to 25 percent—that's how you deal with that. The thousand KiwiBuild houses due for 1 July 2019—we've got three weeks to go. We've got a hundred and they can't sell them. Phil Twyford can't sell them. So we're supposed to believe in New Zealand that you've got 100 houses actually built. You've got half of them sold half of them not sold. The property developers who actually do marketing of houses they can't sell them; and Phil Twyford reckons he can do a better job selling them? Well he could sell them at a discount or he could turn them into State houses but he doesn't want to do that. Why doesn't he want to do that? Because he's signed contracts for the developers saying he wasn't allowed to do that. He got taken to the cleaners and the problem with that is that New Zealanders got taken to the cleaners. I remember that he committed that there was going to be no more housing people in motels and nobody should be sleeping in cars in winter. I remember him saying that. Today in select committee what did Phil Twyford say? He said these famous words—I want us all to remember—"It's going to get worse before it gets better." I said to him today "Why would that be? Why would it get worse? and he talked about the National-led Government—except that he's been in Government for 20 months and secondly he tells us he hasn't sold any State houses. He's told us he's built all these State houses. Well where are they? Because I can tell you this: they're not full of people who are sleeping on the streets or sleeping in cars.He said and the Government said that they promised—and actually Phil Twyford said he promised—to build light rail to the airport from the Auckland central business district within four years. Well that was 20 months ago and what's happened? Not even a business case—and rumoured I hear that it's heading for a scrapping so it's not even a business case. But it's OK. They'll just call it "KiwiTram" and they'll try and sell it to the public at the next election and say "Just like KiwiBuild at some stage it will be coming somewhere to you at the Māngere town centre." This is the level of planning from this Government and this is the level of delivery. No planning no preparation no delivery; just rhetoric."