Clark David; Rurawhe AdrianHon Dr DAVID CLARK (Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs): Mr Deputy Speaker can I start by congratulating you on your appointment. You are respected across this House and we look forward to working with you in the role. I also want to congratulate all the new members. They have been referenced by many of the speakers today and I particularly do want to welcome the two other new members who are resident in the same city as me: Ingrid Leary who is the new member for Taieri—we welcome her to this House—and also Rachel Brooking who is resident in Dunedin. It's bringing the number of local representatives to three and that's exciting for our city for the period ahead. So welcome to this House. I look forward to working with you and with all new members across the House. New Zealanders voted for stability and certainty this election and ultimately on this side of the House we are humbled to be the first majority Government under MMP in New Zealand. We know—it's been referenced today—that with this responsibility comes too huge responsibility with this privilege. I want to speak a little in my contribution about our five-point plan for economic recovery that will help New Zealand bounce back faster in the COVID period. We of course have an overarching objective of keeping New Zealanders safe from COVID-19 but then the next thing on our list is keeping our economy in good shape accelerating the recovery and then laying the foundations for our future. I heard Mr Woodhouse contribute to the debate on debt. There were some comments there about spending and so on—the usual tired refrains from an Opposition that seems not to have any ideas of its own—and I would like to point out to this House that the net debt that we are projected to have as a country is likely to be at the level that many other countries would like to have started the COVID period at. Relative to those other countries in the OECD that we like to compare ourselves to we will be keeping debt much lower through the COVID period and that's due to the careful stewardship of the Hon Grant Robertson as Minister of Finance. I referenced at the outset that New Zealanders voted for stability and certainty at this election. That is what the Minister of Finance Grant Robertson represents to many people I spoke to through the campaign. People who had only ever voted National for their whole lives told me that they were voting Labour this time in part because of the leadership that our Minister of Finance has shown for his careful stewardship of the economy and for his ability to keep that debt down despite the need for investment as well. That careful balance that he has maintained with Jacinda Ardern's leadership for our economy has been crucial to many in the decisions they made in the election and of course the irony of Mr Woodhouse's comments is that his own party were making spending promises through the election campaign like drunken sailors. They did not say where the money was coming from. They promised money to be thrown about all over the place but would not commit to scaling anything back. Well of course the voters of New Zealand saw through that and they elected for that stability and certainty of Jacinda Ardern's leadership and the careful economic stewardship that Grant Robertson has brought to the economy under his tenure. Mr Deputy Speaker I recognise the time is evaporating fast so I'm going to very quickly speak to our five-point economic plan. The first part of that plan is investing in our people and so we've already made investments in apprenticeship schemes that first year fees-free that supports trades training and so on. The second part of our plan is a focus—a relentless focus—on jobs. In my own town Dunedin obviously the Government's bringing the investment in the hospital there—a $1.4 billion investment—that will make sure we have a modern healthcare facility but also it will provide jobs locally a shovel-ready project that's going to have 200 jobs attached to it during construction. We'll build a trades training centre purpose-built for the city; 200 people will be working on site then 350 people will be working on the out-patients building; and then eventually a thousand people on the in-patients building that will be built in Dunedin. That project is huge for jobs locally. There are infrastructure projects across the country that this Government is investing in to make sure that there are jobs for our people. We are preparing for the future a sustainable future and that means things like bringing forward the 100 percent renewable target in our electricity sector and making sure there's no new baseload thermal generation and making sure we listen to what the independent Climate Change Commission brings back with its independent carbon budgets. We want a sustainable economy into the future. We'll also be supporting small business. We've extended the Small Business Cashflow (Loan) Scheme. I'm looking forward to making announcements around regulating merchant service fees and we also want to focus on trade to make sure we're positioned well for the future—high-quality trade deals. We have a plan—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired. I call the Hon Priyanca Radhakrishnan—five minutes.