Jones Shane; Rurawhe AdrianHon SHANE JONES (NZ First): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Madam Deputy Speaker ngā mihi ki a koe i roto i tēnei whakaaranga ōu kia noho hei Māngai mō Te Whare.[Madam Deputy Speaker congratulations to you on this elevation of yours to sit as a Speaker for the House.] Greetings Madam Deputy Speaker a senior member not unlike myself from a province; I acknowledge you and thank you for those words of clarification.There are seven stages of grief. We have witnessed that from a member currently holding by the narrowest of margins the seat of Nelson. What we've got is a mixture of shock and denial. Now as a consequence of the member correctly holding his seat—but now he's in denial because he occupies the desert known as Opposition". The speech reflects an unwillingness or a denial for what is a system relied upon to elect a Government in New Zealand. Now he may deny that he enjoys his current position but he cannot deny the veracity in the existence of the law that enables this Government to be formed. So I accept that there's still the element of shock.I also know that soon we'll witness in that member the expression of guilt and that guilt will evince itself with bouts of anger that they should never have run a campaign saying "Get rid of the middle men." There was always going to be a cost for that assertion. I will not talk about matters that will require substantial legal fees on that side of the House because it's not parliamentary to talk about High Court cases. But in that case guilt will start to consume the architects of the election campaign on that side of the House which has caused them to occupy the space where they are.Of course beyond that the next stage of guilt is often called bargaining. Now a great bargain is going to take place between my old competent Judith Collins "Slim Shady"—in the form of Mr Joyce—and—Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: Sorry to interrupt the member but please no descriptions; can we just have the names of the members.Hon SHANE JONES: I apologise. The architects of the campaign—so the grand bargain as a part of the grief process will take place as to how do they get rid of the people that caused them to end up in Opposition. The bargaining has to happen amongst themselves but rest assured every week that goes by we will endeavour to pour petrol on that fire. It will grow as they learn about the loneliness the irrelevance and bit by bit the public indifference which will just reveal to them how actually lonely they are.Loneliness is the next stage of grief: loneliness and reflection. The former Minister the member for Nelson has never been reflective about a single thing in this House. And I can't speak for erstwhile colleagues from Labour but I have no doubt in my mind that the notion of utu and karma which they think about from time to time rests upon the head of that member.Now after the bleakness of depression and loneliness there's an upward turn. The upward turn is sitting on that side of the front bench. Judith Collins is awaiting her opportunity to serve utu upon the people who deprecated her while she was a loyal Minister in the last Government—incredibly hard-working loyal to the kaupapa but unfortunately written off. Rest assured that upward shift is happening as members who have had their day like the member for Nelson disappear down the shaft of political obscurity.Now after that in the process of grief comes reconstruction. Now naturally I'm the Minister for Infrastructure but I'll talk about that another time. Reconstruction is when you try and reinvent yourself as that side of the House must do in order to capture enough Kiwis to govern again. You cannot run a campaign to get rid of the middleman you cannot make the Māoris extinct—OK you can keep the equivalent of the SPCA in Epsom one single canine running around occasionally waiting for a rub but that's not good enough to form a Government. That's not good enough to create a majority in the House. So in the process of reconstruction not only do they need to freshen up their message but they need to move away from the ugly cruel unwise—I have to say—types of memes that they ran through their campaign. That will be incredibly important for the people that they purport to represent because let me tell you from Foveaux Strait Spirits Bay Tai Rāwhiti Te Tai Hauāuru I can assure you: your leaders in your own community are knocking on the billion-dollar Minister's door. Naturally we will treat them as ordinary fair Kiwi representatives—something that that side of the House chose not to do where my leader was concerned. There's a cost for that folks. You can't run tawdry slimy duplicitous comments and campaigns like that without having to bear the burden of the costs. That cost is three years of obscurity.Now of course the final element of the actual grief process is hope and the Bible talks about three taonga and Corinthians talks about faith hope and aroha. Well a small part of me does have aroha for where you find yourselves but as you did to others so it will be done unto you—ka pai. Secondly it is necessary for us to have faith—have faith in the land of the law Mr Smith which enables New Zealanders to vote and cause this type of innovative Government to rule the country for three years. Trust and have faith in the law that in your time you helped pass. Of course the final element of hope is that without change it's an empty—it's a barren sensation and at the moment there is no evidence that their hopes will be realised. We will watch the different stages of grief along with New Zealanders as this side of the House gets going with appropriate levels of humility to run the country.Now given that we've been talking about the member for Nelson he has encouraged me to come to his region. I look forward to coming to his region if only to remind him: don't ever try to destroy the Treaty of Waitangi rights of the indigenous people by imposing upon them in secret the Kermadecs reserve. Don't ever try that again. That not only humiliated John Key—humiliated John Key—while he wandered off into an international forum it not only isolated the hard-working and reputable then Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations but this man got going on a silent agenda that only he could hear in his head an agenda that has been rejected by so many New Zealanders. He leads those who are still in a wicked place of grief—true. I say to you: not only will we have the billion-dollar fund but we will plant the trees to pay for the $32 billion deficit that that Minister that environment Minister of the past has left with New Zealand.Upon agreeing with the Paris Agreement New Zealand and as a consequence of doing absolutely nothing to reduce our carbon deficit—that bill is now up to $32 billion and it must be paid by 2030. Only through us planting trees only through us bringing the agricultural sector so that they own the full cost of the privileges they enjoy to make money within our environment will we all as Kiwis make a meaningful contribution. I say it again: $32 billion of a deficit that has to be paid as a consequence of his dilatory approach in relation to climate change.So we will plant trees. We will plant native trees. We will plant exotic trees. We will plant in such a way that the young people see it as an acorn that they can grow and be proud of their contributions to get rid of the excesses of climate change. Number two: we will work with local government. Number three: we will work with iwi. Number four: we will also find spaces within the State-owned enterprise estate to ensure that all sectors of Government work with the Ministers to ensure that our contribution in a very practical way reduces the $32 billion deficit. Kia ora tātou katoa.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Tēnā koe e te uri o Te Awa Tupu. [Greetings to you the relative of the sacred River.]"