Hipkins ChrisHon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education): Listening to that contribution from Steven Joyce I was reminded of a child's nursery rhyme because Humpty Dumpty has indeed had a great fall. He dug an $11 billion hole and threw his credibility into it and everybody is still waiting for him to recover from that.It is very clear that the former Government are having a great deal of difficulty getting their story straight as to what they think about the current Government. They want the current Government to be more transparent and then they complain we're being too open and honest about what it is that we are doing. Then they say we're moving far too fast—far too fast—and then they say we're not moving fast enough; we're going too slow. Then they say we're not doing anything—we're not doing anything—and then they say we're doing far too much. Then they try and say everything's great—everything's great—and then they say Oh my goodness things are getting worse things are terrible things are terrible."They are struggling with Opposition there is no doubt about that—as evidenced this morning by the fact that more than half the members of the National Party were too lazy to put a bill in the ballot for members' day this morning. So passionate are they about the causes they came to Parliament to advocate that half of them couldn't even put pen to paper and come up with a bill that they wanted to promote through this House. They are so lazy they could not come up with anything. So busy have they been trying to pull the rug out from under the current Government that they are failing to do their own job as the Opposition.So let's look at the success that's happening on this side of the House by contrast because we had a 100-day plan. Let's run through a few of the items in that 100-day plan: first of all make tertiary education fees free from 1 January—done; increase student living costs by $50 a week from 1 January—done; pass the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill requiring all rentals to be warm and dry—done; establish the tax working group—done; establish the Pike River Recovery Agency with a responsible Minister—done; introduce waka jumping legislation—done; and increase paid parental leave—done.And there are many many more that we are making progress on. Tomorrow we will introduce a Families Package into this House that will make New Zealand families genuinely better off and lift children out of poverty and that is something that you'll be hearing a lot more on from this side of the House tomorrow. We have already made significant progress to something the previous Government said could never be done and that is banning overseas speculators from buying up New Zealand houses. It's already practically delivered; we've got one final step to make that a reality. We've also made steps already to stop the sell-off of State houses—enough is enough. This Government is going to deliver on that. We're going to stop the sell-off. What's more we're going to build more because when you've got a housing crisis you build more houses and that is what this Government is going to deliver on.We will have an inquiry into the shambolic state of New Zealand's mental health services. Mental health is in crisis in New Zealand and this Government is committed to addressing that. We will resume contributions to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. This is a Government that is going to make good on its promise to ensure that superannuation is available for the future generations of New Zealand—something that that previous Government failed to do. They kept kicking the can down the road and they failed to take precautions to make the savings required to ensure that New Zealanders' superannuation in retirement was secured.We will introduce legislation to set a target for the reduction and elimination of child poverty in this country. That is something that this Government takes very seriously and we are going to deliver on that. We will increase the minimum wage so that those New Zealanders who are on the lowest incomes struggling to get ahead can actually get ahead. That is going to be delivered by this Government. This is a Government that has made enormous progress after only seven weeks in office and there is much much more to come.We've made a lot of progress outside of the 100-day plan. In education we have delivered on our commitment to scrap national standards. We have delivered on our commitment to start addressing the teacher supply crisis that we inherited from the last Government and there is a lot more to come. This is a Government getting on with the job of delivering for New Zealand."