McClay Todd: Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
McClay Todd: Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee 
[Sitting date: 24 May 2012. Volume:680;Page:2445. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua) 
: 
 Where might one start after that last speech from Grant Robertson? Actually you know at the last election the National Party campaigned on a brighter future for paper boys and paper girls. It might be OK for members on the other side of the House to say that at the age of 40 you should still be delivering papers but the money that we put into education in this Budget will give every single paper boy and paper girl a brighter future in this country. Before the last speaker goes I just wanted to say that he should not be such a bully when it comes to talking about the hard-working Minister Anne Tolley and the very hard-working member for Taupo Louise Upston. Together their majorities added up to more than the total number of people who voted for him in the Wellington Central electorate. 
Hon Christopher Finlayson 
: And he was third in the party vote. 
TODD McCLAY 
: He was third in the party vote. Well that is a good start—that is a good start. Welcome back. That is a good start. What happens on this side of the House when we do our maths is you take a majority from this member and a majority from that member you add them together and if it was more than the total number— 
Grant Robertson 
: I seek leave of the House to table the results from two electorates— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: No no—order! The member knows that is not a point of order. 
TODD McCLAY 
: And that is their problem with the Budget. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It is a longstanding tradition in this House that members do not sit in the Prime Minister’s seat unless they have ambitions to be there. I wonder whether that member is showing that ambition now. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: The member may well be right and the member on my right has to suffer the consequences. 
TODD McCLAY 
: I notice that nobody is willing to sit in the seat of the Leader of the Opposition at the moment and that tells us more about what is going on here tonight. That is the difference between this side of the House and that side of the House. When it comes to the Budget that side is worried about the issues that New Zealanders are not caring about; we are focusing on what is important. What I want to say is that over the dinner break I was invited to go out and make a post-Budget speech and talk to some people—some everyday New Zealanders—about what is important to them. Can I tell you that it is a wonderful place: the Angus Inn Hotel on Waterloo Road in Lower Hutt. There were people lining up to come in to hear the good news about this Budget. One of them asked what the difference is between the Government and the Opposition. I said it was straightforward: we are ambitious and we want to do more for New Zealand; the Opposition wants to borrow and spend borrow and spend borrow and spend. Do you know what I found in that Hutt South electorate when I walked outside looking for my car to come back here? There were Greek restaurants all up and down Trevor Mallard’s electorate—all up and down the street. That is all they want to do: make us like those poor countries those poor people over there in Europe.  
This is an ambitious piece of legislation that brings balance to our tax system and that does good things for New Zealand and I give you a guarantee that the party opposite will vote against it just like members of the public in New Zealand voted against that party in droves only 6 months ago. 
Dr David Clark 
: Mr Speaker.