Carter DavidRt Hon DAVID CARTER (National): Thank you very much Mr Chairman. The first point I want to make is in relation to the comment earlier by the Minister the Hon David Parker and asks him why he dismisses the Queenstown example advanced by Hamish Walker when 25 submitters came from the Queenstown area to present to the Finance and Expenditure Committee and in common they all said There is a housing affordability issue in Queenstown and this measure being advanced in this bill will only make it worse." We heard that from owners of land we heard that from developers we heard that from carpenters—we all agree that Queenstown has got an affordability issue. Do something that's positive about it Minister. Don't advance legislation that's going to make the problem worse and don't ignore 25 submitters. Now I know the Minister has a history. He actually came into this Parliament as the member for Otago. I think it was 2002 to 2005 from memory. He knows the very people who made these submissions and tonight he just rejects them with an arrogance that doesn't normally come to Ministers in only nine months of Government.The reason I wanted to take another call is that I was outraged to hear Mark Patterson's contribution earlier. And I am looking forward to when that Hansard is published and I'm going to make sure Hamish Walker and Jacqui Dean send it as wide as they can around Clutha-Southland and the South Otago area because that member will never come back into Parliament with that speech. What a socialist position from a person who claims he represents the New Zealand primary sector. Throughout his speech he decried people who make money he decried people who make a profit and he said we should all be equal in this world. It was almost communist in its delivery. I thought it was a frightful frightful contribution completely anti - foreign investment. How does that member think our primary industry was ever established in this country? How does he think the processes came and arrived from England if it wasn't for foreign investment? I thought that member had some possibility but I think he's now got 2½ or two years left in this place before his constituents down in that part of the world realise that he's not for farmers at all; he's completely a socialist.The other thing I wanted to talk about was the issue about the sudden change of attack and the introduction of a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) around forestry. And I can just imagine what happened in Cabinet as the forest report slipped from the select committee back to the Cabinet members and they realised what a mess they'd made with the first piece of legislation put into this House. You have the Hon Shane Jones who claims he's the champion of the provinces advancing a scheme to plant a billion trees a year and as this was put into Parliament as it was introduced by the Hon David Parker it would have stopped foreign investment in that industry completely. And it's already 74 percent foreign-owned. So they had to scrape together a saviour SOP which has now made an exemption for forestry of up to 1000 hectares. And I say to Mr Parker: if you're doing it for forestry why is that the only industry that's important? What about horticulture? It earns more money than forestry and they're under the regime now of not greater than 5 hectares.You can just imagine the argument between Shane Jones Winston Peters and David Parker around the Cabinet table when they realised what a disaster this original legislation was. And we see that right through the whole submission process when every submitter almost to a tee came before the select committee and said "We understand what the Government's trying to do but the effect of this legislation is so bad it will do exactly the opposite." And I just cannot believe the arrogance of particularly the Minister in the Chair—well I suppose having known him for as long as I have I can—but I would have thought some of the other Ministers would realise the effect of this legislation. Mr Parker's opposed foreign investment not only in land ownership in this country; he's opposed foreign investment he's opposed anybody who claims to make a credible life for themselves and becomes wealthy and he's opposed that throughout his parliamentary career."