Nash StuartSTUART NASH (Labour—Napier): I am not too sure about what Mr Kennedy Graham was talking about but what I want to do today is celebrate all that is Rocket Lab. I think this is absolutely fantastic. I must state though when Mr—Dr Clark mentioned—Fletcher Tabuteau: Come on mate. You're married to him.STUART NASH: —the fact that Mr Joyce was in—ha ha—Māhia so often I thought it was because Māhia is in the Napier electorate and what Mr Joyce was keen to find out is how Labour won the seat off National. Well let me tell Mr Joyce the secret: hard work and concentrating on the issues that are important to the people of Napier and Wairoa.First of all let me rebut what the New Zealand First speaker Fletcher Tabuteau spoke about. Without the New Zealand Government's help this would not have happened. For every dollar that Rocket Lab and Peter got from the Government he spends $4 in the New Zealand economy. Peter Beck and Rocket Lab have created over 130 jobs and we are talking about high quality high paid and aspirational jobs. Rocket Lab has actually maxed out industrial capacity in this country for the sort of equipment it needs. Without the early intervention and support from the New Zealand Government—without help from a Minister in the form of Trevor Mallard—we would not even be debating this bill because we would not have this industry.In fact what Rocket Lab and Peter Beck have done is put New Zealand on the map and opened doors into worlds that would not exist without this. In fact Peter Beck has just won the title of Entrepreneur of the Year and I congratulate him for that. There are a couple of speakers who have talked about the No. 8 fencing wire mentality. Well anyone who has been through the Rocket Lab will know there is no No.8 fencing wire mentality about Rocket Lab. This is massive innovation extremely high-tech equipment and a group of very very intelligent and engaged individuals—in fact some of the best in the world. But what Mr Beck has to be careful about actually is who he employs because not only can this launch satellites and rockets into space it actually also can launch intercontinental ballistic missiles. So we do need to be a little bit careful about this.Peter tells a very funny story which I think epitomises the New Zealand spirit and what Peter is and what he stands for and how he has got to the top. One of Peter's initial customers—and shareholders I think—is NASA. Peter Beck phoned up the CEO of NASA and said This is who I am and this is what I do." and the NASA CEO thought that Peter had gone through the various channels to get to him. No no—Peter had just found out who the guy was picked up the phone and called him. When the guy found out that this is what Peter had done he was astounded but he called him "the Kiwi" and he loved this attitude. He loved the can-do attitude. This is what has made Rocket Lab as successful as it is today. So when I hear people like Steven Joyce talking about the fact that he is responsible—no he is not. Peter Beck is responsible for this. Peter Beck and the hard-working men and women behind Peter Beck are responsible. Trevor Mallard got it off the ground and really helped—there is no doubt about that—but Peter Beck has made this happen.But there is one other story that I would like to talk about and this is really about the can-do attitude of provincial New Zealand. Peter did initially look down in Canterbury and as Dr Clark I think talked about—or it might have been Mr Cunliffe—the people in Christchurch could not really get their ducks in a row and after about 8 months he still had not got a resource consent. He did go to Māhia and he went to the Wairoa District Council. The CEO of the Wairoa District Council a chap called Fergus Power understood what this was about—he "got" the opportunity and saw the future and said: "We'll work with you." What he did is I think within about 8 working days have the resource consent processed and through. Now this was not the council being sort of incompetent or glib or fooling around; it worked incredibly hard because it saw there was an opportunity here for Wairoa to be put on the map.I think the opportunities in the medium- to long-term future for New Zealand and Wairoa are absolutely fantastic. I actually put a lot of that down to partnership between the Wairoa District Council and Rocket Lab. What it does show is that when a little town like Wairoa decides it really wants to grab an opportunity with two hands it can. I will tell you what the fantastic people on that council worked incredibly hard and continue to work incredibly hard in partnership with Rocket Lab to make this happen. I cannot wait to be at that launch site for this to go off because this will put New Zealand on the map. It is just a magnificent case of innovation and expertise and can-do attitude. I welcome this bill but more than that I celebrate Peter Beck and Rocket Lab. Thank you very much."