Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): OK Madam Speaker. I'd just like to acknowledge the Minister as well. I think Shane Jones has done an excellent job with this bill. He has been very open with the other parties in this House to look at the board that he is putting on that infrastructure commission. So I'd just like to thank him for the way that he has conducted that. I think he's done a pretty good job of keeping it bipartisan around the committee for that board and I think that's a good start for the bill.The bill basically is just a replication of the New South Wales legislation in this area. The Labour Party has just photocopied it really and brought it to this House—[Interruption] Oh the New Zealand First Party but that's probably pretty good for them to actually photocopy something and bring it to the House. It's probably a step up from their usual antics in their usual legislation. But you know it does have one problem in the bill and as was talked about by that last member he said parliamentary supremacy" you know. That basically—to all those people out there that aren't Greens supporters and aren't of that ilk—means that this room basically can override the rules that are in there just for their own political convenience. You may say "Oh who would do that infrastructure? You know this is something we all need for everybody." I'll give you a great example and I'll give you one example and this is a great example to show you what a failure this bill would be under this Government. That's the Waikato Expressway I just want to start off with that. The first thing I want to say is that we heard on the other side that their Annette King started the Waikato Expressway. Now I was a new member of Parliament and when I first came into this House one of the first things I went to was actually a cutting of the ribbon on part of the Waikato Expressway that was up the north up there by Rangiriri. They had to do it probably about three times afterwards but they still cut the ribbon there. Annette King cut the ribbon and she said "This is a great thing for the Labour Government. Look what we've done." I thought "Yeah I don't know if the Labour Government actually did do this." So I went back and it was actually started under the previous National administration because anybody that has driven that road knew that it took about 10 years to build it. It's like the Southern Motorway going into Auckland which should have been finished last year and still hasn't been finished and that's what happened up in Rangiriri. We had this part of the road that actually had started under National. There was no Labour involvement at all apart from cutting the ribbon at the end. The Labour Party couldn't cancel the road either because it had already been started by the time they got in. So that was what happened.Now let's take a step—about three years after that the National Government is elected and we promised to finish that road which is the four sections and the $2 billion promise and we delivered it. We delivered that road. We have done that but it gets worse. The Labour Party came in and stopped the next stages of that road. The road from Cambridge to Piarere was actually approved by the board of the New Zealand Transport Authority in July of election year 2017 and the Labour Party came in and told the board to revoke that decision. They used political impropriety to go in there and change the decision of that board. That is what happened and that road was gone. But we've got this magical train which carries 160 people and costs $90 million a year as a result and everyone is very happy in Hamilton for that crazy train that's diesel and is going to make a big difference isn't it to 160 people. It's actually $570000 per person if you add it up. We could buy them a house in Auckland each instead of having to get them on that diesel train which takes two hours to get you to Papakura which is going to be really helpful when you actually want to go into the central city. So that's a great investment!But that's what happens when you get lefties running infrastructure because they take away the good stuff and they put in a lot of silly ideas and that is what is happening with this bill. All the infrastructure that had been started through New Zealand has been stopped and because of parliamentary supremacy we're going to see this continue and this bill will be a white elephant under that Government because all it's going to do is sit there and wait for this magical train in Auckland that they're trying to build that they can't even work out how to contract let alone start. That will create what I call—if you want to do big words like what is it parliamentary supremacy and all that—the infrastructure development deficit that will come to this country in the next two years. What is going to happen when all those roads finish in 2020 which is when the Waikato Expressway was due to finish but because of these lefties in there it's now 2022 and lucky to finish then—[Interruption] No it's true. All the workers have left and the companies are holding back because they know they've got nowhere else to send their staff so they're dragging them out and it's going to be 2020—Hon Meka Whaitiri: Rubbish!Hon DAVID BENNETT: Oh it's not rubbish. Go talk to Waikato-Tainui and see what they say. The reality is that that is what is going to happen under this bill. It will get lost as just a blanket bill with no actual infrastructure development because over that side they've taken away the next level of infrastructure that was planned and approved in New Zealand and put in place one gleaming big train in Auckland which they can't even get off the ground.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): The next call is a split call. I call Tamati Coffey."