Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Well if there was ever a sign of a Government in its first term that is incompetent and out of touch it was its infrastructure announcements today. For the whole region of Canterbury we got a $15 million nice-to-have cycleway. What this Government did today is this Labour Government has prioritised a nice-to-have cycleway over a vitally important roading project in my electorate the Woodend bypass. We have a town of Woodend in Waimakariri that has 20000 car movements a day. Mums and dads are taking their students across that State highway every day to the Woodend Primary School. We don't even have a pedestrian crossing. Elderly are telling me they don't want to cross the State highway to get to the bus services to go to their medical appointments. The businesses in Woodend are telling me that people no longer stop in their shops because they don't want to head out back into the traffic.And here we have a vitally needed roading project that that community has petitioned the transport Minister Phil Twyford on. They even protested in February. They had the Woodend rally. They packed out Owen Stalker Park. All they're asking for is a vital transport investment that they need for a high-growth area that's causing real safety concerns for that community. This was the time that this Labour Government could have listened to the people on the ground and heard them and validated their concerns by backing them with vital roading funding. And what do they do? They kick them in the guts and they announce $15 million for a nice-to-have cycleway in another part of Greater Christchurch. What do these people have to do to be heard by this incompetent and out-of-touch Government? Let's take ourselves back to when this first happened. The National Government announced the Woodend bypass in 2017. This Labour Government came in in 2018 and changed the Government policy statement and what that did for transport is it stripped $5.5 billion out of State highway funding and redirected it to Auckland public transport. And now we know they've failed to deliver that. That's been scrapped. Yet people in Canterbury they're the ones that had $5.5 billion stripped out of State highway funding. The New Zealand Transport Agency turned up at the start of 2018 and they told the Pegasus Residents' Group and they told the Woodend residents group that the Woodend bypass was now off the table because the Government had changed its priorities. Instead of investing into vital roading infrastructure and growing regions like Greater Christchurch and Canterbury they redirected that money to roading and public transport initiatives in Auckland.Where does that leave us today? Here we have an incompetent and out-of-touch first-term Labour Government that makes a big song and dance about infrastructure announcements. Those people in my area of Waimakariri and North Canterbury and Canterbury they were listening this morning because they thought their time had finally come. And what does this Government do? Gives them a kick in the guts by announcing a nice-to-have $15 million cycleway.You go and tell those parents who are worried about taking their five- and six-year-olds across a State highway with 20000 thousand car movements a day that you guys prioritised a cycleway. This Labour Government prioritised a cycleway over elderly and disabled people who no longer cross that State highway to get to public transport the bus stops to get to the medical appointments because this Labour Government prioritised a cycleway. That's why it was great to have Chris Bishop in the Waimakariri last week who announced at Owen Stalker Park where the locals had a protest that when re-elected a National Government will deliver the Belfast to Pegasus motorway including the Woodend bypass because what we know how to do on this side of the House is deliver. Thank you Mr Speaker.