Naylor Jono: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNaylor Jono: General Debate[Sitting date: 19 August 2015. Volume:707;Page:5953. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONO NAYLOR (National): It is a great pleasure to rise and take a call in this general debate and to reflect I guess upon what has now been almost 12 months of this Parliament. I thought that by now I would have heard most things over the year but no; this afternoon what we got was a lecture on humility from the Rt Hon Winston Peters. I thought that I had heard it all but once I heard that I realised that perhaps there could be something new. I thought it was kind of ironic actually that he talked about the National Government having had a 36 percent turnover in MPs since 2008. I guess that means only 64 percent of our MPs were here in 2008. It is ironic when you consider that 100 percent of the MPs in the New Zealand First caucus were not here in 2008.I want to reflect a little bit on the past 11 or 12 months—as to how things have been going. One of the things that has really really perplexed me while I have been sitting in this House in this debating chamber listening to things that are going on is why it is that Opposition members are so down on New Zealand. Why is it that they are always talking about how bad things are? I know that it is the job of the Opposition to challenge the Government and to pick holes in the things that we are doing—or to find holes if it can—but the Opposition is just so down on New Zealand. There is such a lack of belief in New Zealand—such a lack of aspiration for the people of New Zealand and the good things that we can achieve. It is a little bit like the story of Chicken Littlewhere the acorn falls and lands on Chicken Little’s head. And then what happens? The sky is falling. It is the end of the world. Every time something happens that does not quite go the way that Chicken Little wants it the sky is falling it is a crisis everything has turned to custard and everything is in complete disarray.We are living in a country that is a little bit more resilient than that. We have got a Government that is committed to the resiliency of New Zealand. It is committed to and is aspirational for New Zealand. I was at a function recently and someone said to me: “What would happen to the National Government if John Key was hit by a bus?”. I thought it was a really interesting question for that person to ask. I could not figure out why they would ask that question but then I thought: “Well obviously they have been watching the Labour Party.” So many of its leaders have been thrown under the bus over the past few years and that might have led to the question. But the question was about whether the National Government would survive without John Key as its leader.He is a great leader. We have all said that and we all acknowledge that—it is great. But the strength of this party is that should there be an unfortunate event and we had to pick a new leader we have got plenty of people to choose from. What we have got is a caucus that is more than happy to get behind this party and to get behind whoever the leader of this party is; whereas what I see on the other side of the House is people sharpening their knives and getting ready to throw their next leader under the bus. That bus is called “Question time”. Every day Labour keeps putting up Mr Little and throwing him under John Key’s bus. It is a little bit like watching a train wreck happen but it keeps happening every day.We are working towards a plan. We are working towards a plan that is good for New Zealand. We are revising the way that we do our social services in New Zealand. We are taking an investment approach because we believe that we can deliver better lives for people. We are taking an investment approach to social housing. Mr Hipkins said that we are not interested in education or otherwise. But do you know what? We are seeing rising levels of educational achievement under this National Government. We are seeing greater participation in early childhood education under this Government. That is what is happening. We are doing better things for New Zealanders and we are seeing them succeed even more.At the moment all we hear from the other side of the fence is doom and gloom because the acorn fell when the dairy prices went down. We understand that it is not a good thing. But what we hear from over there is that the sky is falling and that it is the end of the world. I heard a commentator say the other day that all Fonterra does is take the water out of milk put it into 20 kilo bags and ship it overseas. Paul Foster-Bell and I visited the Fonterra research and development centre the other day. It was exciting to hear the plans that that company has to add more value to our products and send them overseas. These things are happening right across our economy and right throughout our regions.Again the other day it was fantastic to see the diversity of what is happening. We are seeing new people with new ideas. We are seeing companies like Altus UAS Ltd which is ready to export its drones to the United States. We are not a one-track economy; we are a diverse economy. We have got sound leadership. We are taking things forward for the people of New Zealand.