Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): We do have a strong Prime Minister; his name is Bill English. I would like to concur with the previous speaker Ruth Dyson about keeping the tinge of nastiness out of the debate for the next 6 months. I think that is a really good idea and I totally support that Ms Dyson.Look our leader is a leader. He is not a follower; he is actually a visionary. I want to talk to the prior speaker as well Mr Lees-Galloway about his comments about us National members having no investment in people. Well our leader Prime Minister Bill English has a great programme of social investment going and that is totally about investment with people. If you actually can imagine this is taking the 5 to 7-year-olds now who are most at risk and wrapping the services around them. We can now do that because we have actually invested in getting the data process together we have got technology on board and we can identify those people—and Mrs Tolley will be able to add weight to this conversation.It is identifying them wrapping the services around them and asking: is it health? Is it family violence? Is it social housing? Is it a learning disability? What is it that is wrong with these young people and what is it that we all need to do to support them and wrap around them so they do not become the next people in corrections and the next people who are being dealt with by our police? So if that is not social investment and investing in people I do not know what is.Also we had Ms Dyson talking about this Government being short-sighted. We have actually just had conversations in the last 10 days about superannuation and everyone is telling us it is too far out in the future. Everyone is telling us that we are shifting the rules on another generation. Well we went through a generation where the age was 60—it went to 65. It just happens that in 60 years 12 years have been added to the age that people live to. So the age expectancy is getting higher and higher and higher. I know that. I have just had a grandmother turn 100 years old in the last 6 months. That was a fantastic occasion.People are living longer and it is a matter of facing up to the realities. We have got to front up and face up to what is happening. We are also getting better diagnostics we are getting better medicines and we are getting better ways of giving people better quality of life as they live longer so they will continue to live longer. At some point we have to bite the bullet and afford those things.We are about looking into the future and we are about taking action. I have also heard a previous speaker Scott Simpson talking this afternoon about regional provincial New Zealand. In his electorate—we face a lot of the same issues and one of them which he talked about today is ultra-fast broadband. I can see it: as we get the ultra-fast broadband rolling out—12 towns in that last announcement were in my electorate—people then see it as more of a choice to come and live in rural provincial New Zealand. Young people can pick up their phones and they can do exactly what they do in the city—they are connected up. It is really important that we do that so we can see some of our smaller towns becoming vibrant. What I am seeing in my electorate is my small provincial towns not turning into zombie towns. There is actually growth and there is life in those towns and long may it continue.The other thing that has been announced this year is around policing. It has been a struggle for some of our communities and some of our police. I was out in Te Awamutu with the then Minister of Police the Hon Judith Collins when our own Te Awamutu Police Station had been broken into. We were talking about policing numbers and I am absolutely thrilled that the plan is to have 95 percent of New Zealanders no further than 25 kilometres from a police presence. I want to reiterate that that is a presence not a station. I think that is really important. Part two of that is that there is going to be a new phone number developed—we have got 111 now for emergencies. To try to get a hold of a small police station is quite difficult because the police officers are out and about. So there is new number being developed so that people can always ring the police and always get a response on the new number. I think that is a really commendable process and it is something that is really important for our communities because they want to feel safer. Now they are getting connected and safer the roads are improving and there are so many big things happenings. It is my pleasure to be part of a strong National-led Government.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.