SpeechHon DAVID BENNETT (National): Thank you Mr Speaker and I just want to acknowledge the passing of members of Parliament. We've had three members that have passed in the last week or so—especially Chester Borrows who was in my year in Parliament. Whoever comes in this place whatever side they're on it makes a great sacrifice from their family and their community so I just want to acknowledge all of the leadership that's been delivered by those three people.I also just want to acknowledge my good friend Tama Potaka here who did an excellent maiden speech yesterday and really showed the leadership I think that he ensues as an individual. I think there's a great political career ahead of him so I wish him all the very best in representing Hamilton West which is the second part of Hamilton behind Hamilton East of course but an equally important part of Hamilton as well.I couldn't help when we just heard that last speech but look across the side at the other side and I don't think any of them are coming back. I can't see any one of these people that will actually come back at the next election. I just couldn't—OK I don't know the names of some of them and I must admit that's very poor of me but effectively none of those people on that side will come back. OK Willie might have a chance. He may have a chance on a really good day—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Bennett.Hon DAVID BENNETT: —but it's unlikely—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Bennett.Hon DAVID BENNETT: —he's coming back.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Bennett could we use full names please in the House.Hon DAVID BENNETT: The Hon Willie Jackson is the only one that potentially is going to come back but that's a big call too. But I guess that's what happens when you come in on the big roll and you go out with the next big roll. The Prime Minister's statement was the chance for all that backbench there to actually think they had something salvageable out of this year and they would have sat there and they would have been so disappointed.The only person I saw that had a little tinge to their smile was Michael Wood and he was sitting there going How do I put this leader under the bus? How do I actually make sure that this guy gets smashed at the next election?" He was sort of thinking in his socialist-communist way of how he could achieve that goal and he's fomenting in his little corner of the House here and working out what his little tricks and trades will be to take the Prime Minister down.You know it's unfortunate when a political party gets to that stage and it does happen and we're seeing it now in the Labour Party. They're falling apart. Every day there's another ex-Labour Minister in trouble for breaching the conditions of the cushy jobs that they've been given by the Government. Every day we see Ministers in this House that can't perform don't know what to say around education don't know what to say around transport—they just don't know what they're doing in their jobs—and every day good Ministers like Willie Jackson have been silenced in this place. The great plans that he had have been cut out from underneath him and his legacy will be a Minister that tried but never got there. When we see that happening in this House it's a real disappointment for the Labour Party but it's the reality of a party that's going under.Now I want to talk about something serious for the last minute and a bit and that is around the infrastructure that New Zealand needs. Now Jamie Strange he's my colleague from Hamilton and he knows how effective Hamilton has grown and the infrastructure that National delivered to that city. When we came in the hospital had leaking walls we had to build the roads and we gave the infrastructure that actually made this into the great city it is.Then when you go to somewhere like Whangārei and you look at that now when there's a natural disaster people don't have the resilience because the infrastructure hasn't been built by this Government. It's all right saying "Oh we're going to get Bailey bridges in and we're going to fix things up." but the reality is when you're in Government you've got to make some really big calls about building resilience for New Zealand. It's not only just the infrastructure; it's the business resilience. It's our ability to withstand issues as a coastal nation that is going to be undertaking global warming and having to deal with those issues.But we need those decisions to be made around infrastructure and they didn't do it. They sat on their hands for five years and just gave money away and we're paying the price now."