Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Of that effort I have to acknowledge Kieran McAnulty. Mr McAnulty I'd like an appointment with you to take lessons on how one does speak for 10 minutes and say absolutely nothing because after the last 10 minutes I have no idea what that member actually said in terms of the Budget. The only thing was that he started off saying that no one likes a whinger and basically he proceeded to whinge. He whinged. I mean he started off his speech by saying that no one likes a whinger and that the National Party was whinging and he whinged for 10 minutes and he talked about the National Party. This is their second Budget. This is supposed to be the Wellbeing Budget of the Labour Government in their second year delivering for the people of New Zealand. They're supposed to be very proud of the Budget that is delivering for people regardless of the fact that they actually referred to moon feelings when they're deciding on how they're going to divvy up the money in the Budget or the locus of control to figure out how they're going to deliver for the people and yet that member could not actually talk about the Budget that he is proud of. I have to say that this Labour Government is absolutely failing New Zealand. They are failing to deliver for New Zealanders and they are failing to deliver on their promises. In my particular portfolio I like to sort of talk about how this Budget of 2019 has basically confirmed that RNZ+ is now dead in the water. There is no money for public broadcasting; basically because they've not delivered. They promised that they were going to deliver $38 million per year for the next four years while they're in Government—they said they were going to deliver $38 million—they actually delivered $15 million last year. And guess what? This year there is not money for that.There is not even money for something that they've announced three days before the Budget. Three days before the Budget the Minister actually announced that there will be a local democracy reporter pilot. I support that move because that is an opportunity for people to report about what is happening in our local government our funded agencies and it is actually an opportunity for more reporters to be hired to write stories—real local democracy - type stories which are really important in the public media sector. So that was very very welcome. They were going to spend I guess about a million dollars for the pilot and they were going to employ—I can't remember exactly how many—reporters. But this is actually an example that they've taken out from the British model where in the UK the BBC has started the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme where they now have in excess of 150 reporters reporting on that. But that announcement three days before the Budget which made all of us think that it was the new Budget announcement was not in fact this year's Budget announcement; it is actually a hangover from the Budget of the previous year where they haven't actually spent the money. They gave extra money to New Zealand On Air and Radio New Zealand and it was a one-off $6 million fund. It was an innovation fund that they gave to public media but three days before the Budget they hadn't spent the money so they decided to make the announcement as if it is new money; it certainly is not.There is also that whole manifesto. I mean you know this Government came into power with the proviso that they were going to be the most open and transparent Government of all time. As we saw in the actions that the Ministers have taken in not disclosing meetings for example—and I've actually exposed at least one of those—the fact that they were going to employ a Chief Technology Officer which is also dead in the water because that has not happened. Imagine if they had in fact employed a Chief Technology Officer. I wonder what that person—he or she—would have advised the Government in relation to the supposed hack that this Government claims happened when people went searching—like doing a google search going to Treasury's website and hitting on the search bar Budget 2019" and finding the freely available information that we were able to get.Simeon Brown: The only time they've been open and transparent. MELISSA LEE: That's right. It was a lolly scramble free for everybody to access for free—lolly scramble. The only time that this Government has actually been open and transparent; now they're calling it a criminal hack which is rather embarrassing—Todd Muller: Outrageous!MELISSA LEE: —rather outrageous. And whatever happened to the Digital Economy and Digital Inclusion Ministerial Advisory Group (DEDIMAG) ministerial advisory boards that the Government has spent millions of dollars on—the Public Media Advisory Board? There's no money in this Budget for them to continue—I think their term comes to an end at the end of this month—and they're supposed to advise the Minister and this Government on what to do about public media. DEDIMAG—I think they actually finished last month so where are they? I mean their minutes were never publicly available; they never even recorded the minutes. What about you know a public media group? I mean in terms of the funding commission that they were actually going to create whatever happened to that plan? This Budget does not provide a single cent towards the plan that the Labour Party and the Government set out and actually said out loud very proudly that they were the champions of public media and they were going to provide $38 million a year—and this Government has not actually delivered.There are a couple of other things that Mr McAnulty said which I just want to take issue with. He said that we took issue with the small concession in terms of what the coalition partners got. Small concession is not billions and billions of dollars to actually plant trees or to actually place a roundabout in Shane Jones' electorate around his house—you know billions of dollars that has actually delivered nothing. It's supposed to grow economic development for the regions and hasn't really delivered. The last count I had was that it did not even produce a hundred new jobs in terms of the money that Shane Jones has spent.I have to say the KiwiBuild saga is also an absolute disaster as well. When this Government comes in and says this is what they're going to do and when you have KiwiBuild—their main policy area the big chunk that they were going to make a difference in this country as opposed to the National Government—this was their flagship portfolio. This was their flagship policy that they were going to deliver for New Zealanders. We know for a fact that it's an absolute diabolical failure. The Minister's a joke and he hasn't actually delivered and he's spending good money after another not delivering for people. When I have constituents who ring me up and say they've been homeless for the last 87 days and Oranga Tamariki and Housing New Zealand and Work and Income haven't come to their aid I get really angry. Although I'm not an electorate MP I am a list MP who actually cares about the constituents and I am championing their causes. No doubt the Ministers will hear about these issues soon as well.But you know in terms of what they're not delivering for New Zealanders I mean whatever happened to the cheaper doctors visits? We were going to pay $10 in doctors visits. What about the lifesaving medicines that we were all going to get? I just got an email recently about a woman who is desperate because her child's—her four year-old daughter's—epilepsy medicine is going to be changed by Pharmac against Medsafe advice and she is absolutely frightened that her child is going to go through seizure after seizure; she is actually desperate. This is the so-called caring Government that is apparently delivering the Wellbeing Budget. I say to the members opposite that they should hang their heads in shame because they certainly haven't looked at the wellbeing of New Zealanders. They are not growing the economy they are not providing the jobs that people need; instead they're providing 13000 extra people on the dole queue on the benefit. People are worse off. More people are actually homeless more people are living in caravan parks. I think the members opposite should be ashamed of themselves."