Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Hunua): It is a pleasure to be talking on this third reading of the Appropriation (2017/18 Estimates) Bill and hopefully we can be more cheerful than that former speaker Richard Prosser because that was very very dreary. Actually I think this is an excellent Budget and I will tell you why: this Government is delivering for all New Zealanders. This is a Government that is open to trade is open to investment and is happy that Kiwis are choosing to stay at home because this is where they want to live. They do not need to flee to some other country; they want to stay here because we are successful we are growing and we are delivering for everyone.We are not taking a break as some people said—oh sorry that may have been last week; someone else might be saying something different this week. But we are on a road to growth to prosperity. So what are the people of New Zealand actually achieving? Well one of the first things they have done through the hard efforts of everyone in New Zealand is get one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. In fact I asked the Minister of Finance today in question time about the Moody's report that has just come out. Moody's an independent body—and I am not sure if many of the Opposition know who Mr Moody is. But I am not referring to Mr Moody; I am talking about that international credit agency. It stated that New Zealand is one of the fastest-growing Aaa economies in the world and what is that leading to? Jobs—180000 jobs in the last 3 years. That is 10000 a month—10000 every month. That is what we want. We want to see New Zealanders with the opportunity to get good employment earn money buy a house and look out for their families. That is why you create successful economies.What that is leading to is low unemployment—4.8 percent and projected by Treasury to go even lower. Wages are increasing as well. Increasing wages—a $17000 net increase over the last 8 years in real wages. That is all against an environment where we have got low inflation which means low interest rates which means people can afford to buy houses much more readily than when interest rates were at 10 percent or 20 percent under the previous regime.I think this Government should be named the Government of infrastructure". What a facilitator of growth. We know how important it is and this Budget—contrary that last speaker—is one about investing in new infrastructure. Do you realise that $32 billion will be spent on infrastructure over the next 4 years—$32 billion? Unbelievable. You know what it is going to go into? Well a lot of it is going into roads—and I am going to talk about that and other transport initiatives—but also into big things like schools. In my electorate of Hunua I have got three brand new schools committed: Ormiston Junior College Flat Bush and a new one at Belmont Pukekohe. I have got lots of schools that have got new classrooms upgraded facilities and all those good things.Hospitals—lots of them. We have been doing all the big ones and now we are doing things like the West Coast hospital and further south. Defence—I see the Minister of Defence here doing a great job and we have committed $20 billion over the next 20 years to upgrade our facilities and our defence capabilities. Housing—I hope you have been listening to the Hon Amy Adams. She is doing a great job in terms of delivering a real plan for housing and not one that is uncosted. It is not like the one that we have heard from the Opposition about these 100000 homes: "How are you going to pay for it?" "We don't know." Amy Adams is doing a great job because she has costed it. We have got a plan. We know what we are going to do and that is what we are going to do and already we are seeing the benefits of housing prices easing off—if not decreasing—and that is going to make it better for everyone.There is $550 million put into rail around New Zealand and $436 million allocated in the Budget for the central rail loop. But what a weekend—what I weekend I have had. I am most grateful to the Prime Minister and to the Minister of Transport the Hon Simon Bridges because they have recognised the need of the South Auckland community. They specified in the weekend that this Government is going to invest $130 million to electrify the rail line from Papakura to Pukekohe. One hundred million is going to go into triple-laning the rail track between Wiri and Westfield. Some people will not appreciate why we have invested in that. What this is about is that currently on the rail loop between Westfield and Wiri there is congestion with freight trains and the triple-laning will mean that the rail track coming up from the south can be more optimised better used and have more trains on it. This of course builds on the recent announcement to buy 17 new electric trains operated by battery. That is just working its way through the process but the intent is to get it in 2 years' time so that we can have battery-powered trains coming up into Pukekohe with the capability to go as far as Pōkeno and also up into the north to the member for Rodney's electorate. So that extends the capability of our rail network.Of course in the previous weekend we had the announcement around another two railway stations that are going to be built in the southern loop—one at Paerata where the Wesley development is going to take place and also at Drury South. These are great things. They recognised the high-growth area I represent and where the hard-working people of the south come from and travel into the rest of Auckland. I think when you combine this with the announcement that the Government is looking at a new four-lane road corridor that mirrors the Southern Motorway this is what we are all about. This is about improving the infrastructure in New Zealand improving the infrastructure in Auckland and assisting people to get to work and go about their lives.It was remarkable—I had just watched with a sense of anticipation what the Labour Party might come up with for its transport policy. What did I hear? Labour wants to invest in a new rail link that goes from the Wynyard Quarter to Mount Roskill for light rail over the next 4 years—already we have had people saying: "Well we don't know whether we could do that."—and then extend that to the airport within 10 years. How is Labour going to fund that? Well the first thing it is going to do is tax everyone. Everyone in Auckland is going to be taxed another 10 cents—another tax. Then what Labour is also going to do is it is going to slow down—scale down—the East-West Link. At the moment there are 2000 trucks a day using the route from Onehunga to Mount Wellington and Labour wants to slow that down. It wants to stop those truckies from coming out of that heartland business area and feeding the nation—it wants to slow that process down so those trucks cannot get out and continue the congestion that goes on.Tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. when my people—my constituents from Hunua and Papakura—get in their cars I do not think they are going to be saying: "I wish we had a new light rail to the airport." What they want to know is that they can get into their cars and get on to the motorway or get on the train and go to work without any problems. That is where the real priority is. When you take this package together with the recent one around the Crown Infrastructure Partners package which is about the Government committing a further billion dollars in terms of investment in infrastructure—$600 million from the Government and the rest from councils and private equity—this is about a Government delivering infrastructure which is one of the most crucial drivers of growth. That is what we are going to do. That is why we need to be back here in October. I am looking forward to being part of that Government when we do come back. Thank you very much."