Ross Jami-LeeJAMI-LEE ROSS (National—Botany): I am pleased to be following that member David Clark so that I can remind the House that that is the member who has led the Labour Opposition to the position of opposing trade and opposing future export opportunities for New Zealanders. He is the man who has led the Opposition towards a position that is completely divorced from what any Labour Government has ever held as a position previously in terms of trade. For anyone who was listening to David Clark talking in the House about trade and about exports and about growing the economy do not listen to a word he has said. Do not listen to anything he has had to say about growing the economy or growing exports or growing trade because we know that Labour is the party that no longer supports trade. Labour no longer supports the export sector in our country. It no longer supports people in New Zealand who are trying to get ahead by wanting to export more goods and services overseas and David Clark is one of the architects of the Labour Party's new opposition to trade and opposition to supporting New Zealand businesses. It does not support them any more. It does not support the workers in this country any more. The proud tradition that it held previously is no longer one with credibility. This Government is one with credibility. This Government is achieving good things for New Zealanders. It is a Government that is balancing the books. It is a Government that has led New Zealand through some difficult times and some difficult periods and we are now seeing the fruits of New Zealanders' hard work. We are now seeing the results of a country that has been prepared to go and work hard through the tough times supported by the Government and now we are seeing better opportunities for New Zealanders. We are seeing higher wages for New Zealanders. We are seeing more jobs created in this economy under a National-led Government led by John Key ably assisted by our Minister of Finance Bill English. We are seeing more achieved for New Zealanders and greater outcomes for New Zealanders. The appropriations in the Budget which we are talking about today are all about turning our economy more towards the next steps and future opportunities for New Zealand. When we talk about the likes of the education system we can talk about the additional investment that our Ministers and our Government are putting into education infrastructure. When we talk about the likes of the health system we cannot believe the numbers that the Labour Party has talked about in terms of funding. Funding for health has gone up every single year. It is not just about additional money going into the Budget; it is about getting better outcomes for New Zealanders as well. We can also point to the fact that New Zealanders are voting with their feet. We are not seeing tens of thousands of people leaving the country as we did when Labour was last in office. When Labour had the opportunity to govern the country a whole rugby stadium full of people was leaving the country every single year. That has turned around. That has reversed. New Zealanders are voting with their feet. [Interruption] We do not have to listen to what those members want to say in the Parliament; New Zealanders are voting with their feet and they are deciding for themselves where they want to see their future opportunities for New Zealand. Under Labour the future opportunities for New Zealanders are in Australia; under National the future opportunities for New Zealanders are in New Zealand. They are coming back to New Zealand in their droves. They are coming back here because they see future opportunities for their children. They see future opportunities for their families. They see that we are creating more jobs in this economy and they see that wages are going up. They see that the education system is leading to more children getting National Certificate of Educational Achievement level 2 and they are seeing that the under-investment in education is being reversed. They are seeing that their children and their families have more access to elective surgery under a National-led Government. They are seeing that their children have greater access to immunisation under this National-led Government. They are seeing that there are future opportunities for New Zealanders as well. I also want to point to the fact that the cities and the regions in this country are doing very well as well. Yes we have some housing difficulties in Auckland that we are working through. Yes there are challenges on the horizon. But let us just point out that much of the challenge that we have in Auckland is a challenge based on the results of success for New Zealand. We are dealing with these challenges because we have been successful as a country. We are dealing with higher migration in Auckland because people are choosing to move back to New Zealand. We are dealing with housing issues in Auckland because people are choosing to move to this country and they are choosing to live here. We do have a comprehensive plan of action for housing in Auckland and we do have a lot of work under way to deliver more supply but I say to the Labour Party and I say to those opposite who have been attacking the Government throughout speeches in this debate that if they really care about housing in Auckland and if they really care about the first-home buyers in Auckland come on board. Come on board with the plan to open up Auckland and open up land for more supply. Come on board and support Resource Management Act reform for New Zealand. Come on board and support getting more people into skills and into the workforce and the construction industry. Come on board to the fact that the answer to housing in Auckland is that it is not for the Government to try to build houses; it is for the Government and for the Parliament to create an environment so that New Zealanders living in Auckland who want to build and who want to have land available to build on have the opportunity to do that. I want to say something that is not said very often in this Parliament or even in Auckland. I want to say congratulations to the Auckland Council. I want to say congratulations to the Auckland Council on the leadership it has shown on the Auckland Unitary Plan recently because whatever the question is around housing in Auckland or anywhere else in New Zealand—whatever the question is and whatever you want to solve in the housing space—it all comes back to one answer and that is delivering more supply. Whether it is through the Auckland Unitary Plan which will deliver more supply; whether it is through the housing accords that we have had in place it will deliver more supply; or whether it is the infrastructure fund that we are putting aside for councils to work with us on it will deliver more supply and that is the way to get better housing opportunities for New Zealanders living in Auckland. I also want to say congratulations to Nick Smith on the HomeStart scheme. There are thousands of people thousands of first-home buyers across New Zealand who will have greater access to buying their first home through that HomeStart scheme set up by this Government led by Nick Smith. I know my colleagues Sarah Dowie and Todd Barclay and others from the regions far divorced from Auckland are also seeing their communities benefit from the HomeStart scheme where people can use their own savings through the KiwiSaver scheme to get access to funds to be able to purchase their first home. We are seeing the numbers slowly ramp up in that particular scheme and about 90000 people will have access to their first home under that scheme. I think that is a brilliant thing. We can combine that with the fact that New Zealanders are seeing their wages growing the fact that we have delivered tens of thousands of jobs in the past year and the years before that and the fact that we are going to see another 170000 jobs created in this economy by 2020. We can combine that with the fact that we are seeing more funding going into skills training the fact that we are seeing a healthier workforce and the fact that we are going to see future trading opportunities—which the Labour Party opposes—under the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We can combine that with the fact that we are seeing a New Zealand that now has a balanced Budget and better opportunities for children in the future. We are now seeing a New Zealand that is willing to invest up front in the early years of a child's life so that they get better outcomes in their later years. We are seeing a Government that is now mature enough to say: These are the areas we need to invest in early on so that we can both save money for the taxpayer in the future and more importantly get better outcomes in people's lives." These are the factors in which we can invest so that there is less connection with corrections so that there is less opportunity for people to fall through the cracks and so that there are more children who are able to succeed and achieve in their lives and that is a good thing for New Zealand.Dr David Clark: 8 long years.JAMI-LEE ROSS: 8 years of success Mr Clark. We have had 8 years of success in which we have been able to lead a Government—we have John Key and Bill English at the helm—and in which we have delivered good stable government that has invested in the important areas of New Zealand balanced the Budget and delivered a better New Zealand for future generations. I wholeheartedly endorse the Budget delivered by Bill English."