🗳️ That the amendment be amended by omitting all the words after the word “House” and inserting the following words: “has no confidence in the Labour minority Government and those who for 21 years have blindly supported failed, neo-Liberal policies and records with regret that the Government has failed to provide leadership and policy to enhance New Zealand’s export performance and per capita incomes, has failed to address New Zealand’s burgeoning balance of payments deficit, has failed to deal with escalating violent crime, has failed to provide sufficient numbers of police, has failed to deliver a first world health system, has failed to curb the burgeoning Treaty of Waitangi industry, has done nothing to stop excessive and unfocused immigration, and does nothing to lay the foundations for building a better, more prosperous nation for future generations.”

Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN (Minister of Finance): It is a time-limited debate, and 10 minutes before the end of the Budget debate the Minister of Finance is called in reply, regardless of whoever is actually speaking at that point. The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Clem... Read more →