SpeechHon SHANE JONES (Minister of Forestry): That was Pāora ko te Sky Tower taku whare ko Ngāti Epsom taku marae ko Māngere sewage pond taku moana ko Pāora tōku ingoa.[That was Pāora the Sky Tower is my ancestral home Ngāti Epsom is my village Māngere sewage pond is my ancestral body of water Pāora is my name.]That was the list member based in Epsom who bears the now Māori-fied name Pāora" which reminds us of Paul from the Bible. Paul was struck blind for three days; this Paul has been blind for three years—intellectually inert vocally mute and sadly spiritually very negative—failing to recognise that this Budget lays down a handsome array of opportunities for community for business for international investment and indeed for domestic employment.Let's take a small part of the Budget associated with infrastructure. Now infrastructure has been blighted for far too long by red tape excessive delay and processes that may have made sense in a time of economic surplus but now must be trimmed. They must be shortened and they must be rationalised in order for the $3 billion set aside—that's before we get to the $20 billion that the Minister of Finance has wisely sequestered for future developments. The $3 billion will be dealt to by the Cabinet and will identify those projects that will add momentum to people's need to create jobs to absorb the slack labour and those firms that are ready to go in the small to medium sized enterprise sector—those projects that can move with pace timeliness—because I accept on the odd occasions where Mr Goldsmith has made a sliver of sense that it has taken too long for a number of our roading projects rail projects to get up and get galloping.And indeed the Opposition infrastructure spokesperson has made the point that the Resource Management Act (RMA) changes are overdue. But deep down we don't have the luxury of waiting incessantly for these projects which is why that part of the Budget has as a companion piece the work that Mr David Parker is pursuing in revamping the RMA. There is more work to be done in the application of the Public Works Act and in addition to that the Building Act. Both of those I have no doubt will enjoy the refining soothing qualities of bureaucratic reform in the not too distant future preferably before the election.Let me come back to another key piece of the Budget. Now often it's unkindly said about the former Speaker Sir Lockwood Smith that he presided over the death of apprenticeships and vocational training in New Zealand. It's wrong to blame that single individual and he was the Minister of Education. He was implementing the policies of the time. If there is one awful error that was made back in the early 1990s it was to downgrade the significance of that type of training and uplift the significance of university-orientated training. One of the great contributions of this Budget is that fees will be met money will be available for people wanting to move into education the tertiary sector or to retrain because infrastructure and housing are going to be key ingredients as we search out ways to expand economic activity to make up for the loss of income associated with the diminution of international tourism and indeed international education. I see two types of international education myself. I do believe international education has a tremendous amount to offer with those kids that are coming here and going to secondary school. It actually expands the knowledge the experience and the confidence of our Kiwi kids when they meet look learn and consult with our international students. And indeed universities are able to expand their services for Kiwi kids by attracting highly paying international students. But where I draw the line is where we have dodgy language schools that really have paraded as educational institutions where sadly too often they'd be nothing more than visa factories. So in that sense no one in this House should look for an early return to that type of education because many of the unfortunate souls attracted to New Zealand to study in that context have been abused and they've been used and they've actually been a source of cheap labour fodder by unscrupulous employers. Those days as a consequence of COVID thinking are over.Now let me return to the Budget. During the course of the Budget urgency period we introduced an overdue small piece of legislation to deal with forestry registration of advisers and log traders otherwise known as "log mongers". I won't say too much about that bill because it's still at the select committee other than to share with the House that if we are going to diversify the sources of revenue in our economy we need to turbocharge those parts of the economy where we can rely upon our own natural resources and invest and expand in a better mix of goods and services. Now admittedly a lot of our raw material does go at the moment to China. That's not surprising from the time that the Helen Clark Government negotiated and bedded down the free trade deal with China—a historic and extraordinary development. Sadly it has left too many of our commodity traders such as the woebegone crayfish traders in a situation that once that tap is turned off they have nowhere else to go. So one of the great contributions that will come post-COVID from that small piece of forestry reform will be to broaden the markets given that we'll have a richer array of products coming out of our own country to lessen our reliance on commodity trading with China.However we should value the economic relationship with China. It is very important but we must address our own economic sovereign interests which is why later today we will be dealing with the overdue reform that Mr David Parker is shepherding through to ensure that as a consequence of COVID our country does not lose the ownership of strategically important industries firms and enterprises by tightening up the Overseas Investment Office criterion not to prevent overseas investment but to ensure that it contributes to deepening our ability to survive in an increasingly turbulent world.One of the features of the Budget has been the focus and attention shown to ensuring that Pasifika and Māori endeavour is not marginalised. But I have a message: we have zero tolerance we have zero willingness in the party that I belong to to acquiesce or to encourage any growth in the mistaken beliefs ideologically driven by the iwi leaders group that they have a role to play in either vetoing consenting allocating or rationalising any funding out of our Government to achieve better outcomes for water quality better outcomes for resource management better outcomes for farming. I say to those iwi leaders: go back and ensure you look after your own rangatahi before you try and eclipse the status and the experience of those Māori that are already in Cabinet. Any iwi leader who wants to eclipse the role of parliamentarians: hang up your rūnanga spurs join the fray stand for election. Otherwise get out of the way."