Lees-Galloway IainHon IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Oh my goodness how much the National Party misses John Key! Remember the days of John Key's National Party" "I'm a Key person" "Team Key"? No sign of the National brand; it was all John Key back in the days when they had a popular leader a charismatic leader that people could believe in. I know they miss him—I know they miss him—and I know they wish that they had someone of the quality and character of Jacinda Ardern on their side of the House. But I don't want to talk about them; I want to talk about the marvellous weekend the Labour Party had in Whanganui over the weekend celebrating two years of action and celebrating two years of Government for the people of New Zealand. And boy did we have so much to celebrate.I want to talk a little bit about what the last two years of this coalition Government have meant for my electorate of Palmerston North. Let me just talk about schools—let's talk about education. The announcement was made on the weekend at the end of the Labour Party conference that every State school in the country is going to get additional money for property and maintenance. I want to talk about Cloverlea School a decile 3 school in my electorate. They will get $239085 towards property and maintenance for that school instead of school donations. The principal told me the other day that they normally take about $2000 a year in school donations because they come from a community where people just don't have spare cash to donate towards their local school. Instead of $2000 they will now get $45000 from the Government. Of course we've made an offer to teacher-aides that if they agree with it if they settle will see all teacher-aides on at least the living wage a huge increase in support for schools like Cloverlea School not just in my electorate but across the country.The Provincial Growth Fund—I know the National Party doesn't like the Provincial Growth Fund very much but we're very fond of it in Palmerston North. Shane Jones came to our electorate over the recess to announce funding for the KiwiRail freight hub a high-tech intermodal freight hub that will grow Palmerston North's role as a critical freight distribution centre. Of course it'll help to reduce transport emissions. It'll take the pressure off our city roads and support that growing sector of logistics combined with of course the replacement road for the Manawatū Gorge something that I've been calling for since 2011 but the National Government never saw fit to do never saw fit to designate never saw fit to fund. That project is now well under way as well under this Government.The Prime Minister came to Palmerston North not so long ago to announce a $30 million replacement mental health ward to make sure that we're delivering the services that people in need require. Housing: National—in Palmerston North State houses got torn down. State houses got torn down and the land was left completely empty. We've in the last two years had the first new purpose-built State house in Palmerston North for 25 years. We're building more State houses and there is a plan to add 105 additional State houses to the stock in my electorate. That is a Government of action. That is a Government of delivery for New Zealanders.Compare that with the National Party. What was their big announcement over the recess? Strike Force Raptor—raa! I want to know where this came from. I want to know what inspired Simon Bridges to roll out Strike Force Raptor. I think he was going to his happy place when he was a wee lad: little Simon sitting on the living room floor watching Transformers. He's watching Transformers and he saw the Dinobots on Transformers: Grimlock Swoop Slag Sludge and Snarl. Now normally we say which members of the National Party we think those characters represent but I'm just not going there. I'm not that brave. But I have to say what were they? They were a rogue strike force that would go out and beat up the Decepticon gang. They'd go and cause lots of grief for the opposition but they had a tendency to attack their own accidentally. I have to say that's what this policy has done to the National Party. Did we hear Simon Bridges talk about Strike Force Raptor during his speech? No we did not. Did we hear Paul Goldsmith talk about it? No we did not. This policy has bitten National in the bum and if there's anything I've learnt from Jurassic Park it's that when a raptor bites you in the bum it's probably terminal.So I have to say it's clear as we go into the election year that this country has had a coalition Government of action delivering for everybody in New Zealand and the alternative is a party of dinosaurs."