Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Mr Speaker. I would also like to acknowledge the storm recovery that's going on out there and I am thinking of all the people that are doing the clean-up today. I would just like to thank the previous speaker Peeni Henare for his offer of the lessons on party leadership—because that party over there are experts on that—but I just want to say no thanks—not thanks we've got it all under control. On that note I would like to acknowledge our current leader the Rt Hon Bill English who's put in 27 years of fantastic service not only for our party but for this country and for the Government of New Zealand over that time.There are some things in the House this week that I've found rather interesting and the first one of them was around the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA). We've heard a lot—it doesn't matter whether you talk about health whether you talk about education whether you talk about DIRA; whatever you talk about all we hear about is reviews. So it was really interesting the other night to hear that another review is being done of one that was done only two years ago. We don't know what the terms of reference are of this review but one thing I do want to pick up from the other night—I think we did have a good exchange around the rural-urban divide. James Shaw added a lot of value to that contribution when he said he was making a commitment to work together to help close up that rural-urban divide and I am going to work and hold James Shaw to account on that one.The other thing that's come up this week is the conversation about the third medical school. We heard Dr Coleman say before that the Minister said that it's not in the public interest to talk about this. Well I can tell you that the people who work in rural health the rural health association of New Zealand—they have a lot of members from all around the country and they've made the case that rural health involves 600000 people. So 600000 people make up New Zealand's largest city which just happens to be scattered all over the place and I'd like David Clark to explain to us at some point why this is not in the public interest. These public these 600000 people are very interested in their primary healthcare and we see these proposals for the medical school as some way of moving forward to get more doctors in our rural areas.The biggest thing—the biggest thing—of the last week is that we have had issues in biosecurity with the stink bug we have had issues in biosecurity with M. bovis and there's a number of other things going on like myrtle rust and we cannot get any answers out of the Minister. We have been asking questions. We have been trying to get funding on behalf of people who are looking to find out where they head to next on the whole M. bovis thing. I went down to the Southern Field Days last week and I spent some time with the very good local MP Hamish Walker and he has been trying to get answers. Nathan Guy and I have been trying to get answers and these farmers just simply do not know what the rules of the game are.So I would actually make a call out to the Hon Damien O'Connor to please answer our questions. I have been very upfront with Damien O'Connor and I have told him that biosecurity of a serious nature like we currently have in this country on a couple of issues is no place to play political games. I'm not interested in playing politics in this; I'm just interested in getting answers for our industries with M. bovis with the stink bug. I don't want to play games. I'm saying Hey we've got to fix this." This is a national interest thing.Now we know that that party over there who are currently calling themselves the Government made up with two others are very seriously going to run out of money for the 51 promises and wish lists that they're up to. We know that money's not hugely available after giving it all to the students. It should be available for things like M. bovis but we're not getting answers out of that one. So I would call again for the opportunity to stop playing games over something that is so serious for New Zealand and for New Zealand's economy because biosecurity is not a game. Thank you Mr Speaker."