MANAWATU FARMING LIFESTYLES May 2019
Promises and shortfalls by Ian McKelvie, MP for Rangitikei
For all the government’s talk of wellbeing and fairness, its deliveries to date have been bad for New Zealand families and have hit the poor harder than most. What is fair about the median rent going up by $50 a week under this government? How has well-being improved for the extra 13,000 New Zealanders now on a benefit? What stories of heartbreak are behind a more-than-tripling of emergency housing grants? Five months into 2019, it is worth reflecting on the things that the government vowed to deliver and the ones that can already be called a fail. It’s a long list, so we’re giving a representative cross-section. The government said it would boost the number of sworn frontline police by 1,800 by November 2020, but it‘s already clear it won’t deliver. Many New Zealanders would assume housing, and in particular social housing, would have been a priority for the government. The prime minister cited KiwiBuild when she debuted her ‘year of delivery’ slogan. KiwiBuild has been allocated $2 billion, and all it has delivered is a few dozen houses. That’s despite the government talking big on housing and hiring public relations consultants. A failure to deliver and a shambles. Annual economic growth has slowed from about four per cent to just above
two per cent. Growth for each person stalled in the most recent two quarters, which means the only driver of economic growth is a bigger population. The finance minister also talked about jobs growth back in December 2017 but fast-forward to 2019, and we’re going backwards. The number of New Zealanders with jobs fell by 4,000 in the past three months. Under National, new jobs created at a rate of 10,000 a month. Budget 2019 has $95 million for four years for 3,280 extra teachers. The package falls well short of the ministry’s estimate that more than 8,000 extra teachers will be needed in classrooms over the next five years. Rounding out the short-list of non-deliveries is the Provincial Growth Fund, a $3 billion payback to NZ First for allowing Labour to win the Treasury benches. The Minister for Regional Economic Development boasted that 10,000 jobs could be created by the PGF but on closer inspection could only find 562. National could only find 54, and the minister has now become coy about the numbers. The likely verdict? Another failure to deliver. The prime minister’s declaration that 2019 is the ‘year of delivery’ will come back to haunt her.
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