Young Jonathan: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeYoung Jonathan: General Debate[Sitting date: 04 November 2015. Volume:709;Page:7706. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth): Seven years ago the people of New Zealand made a great decision and that was to vote in a John Key - led Government. National received 45 percent of public support. In 2011 it was 47 percent in 2014 it was 47 and on 19 October it was 47 percent. Nothing has changed. Here we are we are in Government we are looking after the people of New Zealand and they are supporting the John Key - led Government.And what do we see in the Opposition? We see a confused group of people who do not know who they are do not know what they stand for and have to have all these people from offshore come and tell them who they are. The people of New Zealand absolutely state in their lack of support of the Opposition that they have no confidence in a Labour-led Opposition.It is quite interesting. Just in Taranaki in these last number of years the number of Treaty settlements that we have progressed is quite phenomenal when you compare that with what was not done under the previous Government. This is the Taranaki region that suffered for many years—raiding parties from Waikato. But what we are experiencing these days is raiding parties from Wellington. We have Andrew Little come up and we have Grant Robertson come up trying to undermine the great work that the National Government has done in our region.Recently there was a headline in the Taranaki Daily News that read “Labour big wigs”—I am not sure whom they are referring to—“visit on regional reach-out”. We know that this is work that they are trying to do. “Taranaki hosted two Labour tours of the province on Thursday as the party continues their reach-out to regional New Zealanders.” Grant Robertson Stuart Nash Damien O’Connor—they all came up. They went out to the Contact Energy power station at Stratford. “Robertson said there was an increased interest in the Stratford power station since Contact Energy had shut down their Otahuhu power station for good on September 30.” This is the person who is the spokesperson on finance on the Labour benches and he said: “However the power station like other regional infrastructure was in desperate need of upgrades to bring it into the 21st century”. I find that quite unusual and I find it quite interesting that that was said. I guess what we can see is that Labour is out and busy finding out about what is happening in the regions. That is what Robertson said—that a desperate upgrade was needed to bring it into the 21st century.So needing to understand his sublime commentary on energy generation infrastructure I wrote a letter to the editor seeking the paper’s wisdom. “Sir in Grant Robertson referring to regional infrastructure [needing a desperate upgrade] I wasn’t sure which of the Contact Energy power stations in Stratford he says needs upgrading. Could it be the 377MW station that Contact describe as ‘a large efficient and modern plant being one of the largest gas turbines in the world housed in a single building constructed from special metals and featuring advanced cooling systems.’ ” Was that the one? Or perhaps it was the other power station needing to be brought into the 21st century. “Could it be Contact’s 200MW gas-fired peaking power station in Stratford—the one that Hekia Parata Chester Borrows and myself accompanied the Prime Minister to which the PM opened on 31 May 2011?”. So I am not sure whether it is the modern one with fantastic 21st century metals or the one the Prime Minister opened in 2011 that Grant Robertson refers to as decrepit infrastructure that needs bringing into the 21st century.What I do not understand is how Labour members can go to that place say that stuff get it quoted in the paper and have people think that they are credible. This is one of the reasons why people do not support the Labour Opposition because there is a lot said without credibility. There is a lot of rhetoric but the facts speak for themselves. The facts are that this Government has for 7 years supported this nation has supported people who have struggled has supported businesses through the worst economic times in this world has supported Christchurch and has supported the people of the west coast. We have stood strong and we stand strong by the regions of New Zealand. Thank you.