Scott Alastair: Debate on Prime Minister’s StatementText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeScott Alastair: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement[Sitting date: 10 February 2016. Volume:711;Page:8870. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa): Thank you for this opportunity to rise in support of the Prime Minister’s statement. And what a fabulous vision he outlined for us just a couple of days ago. Sometimes I wonder listening to the Opposition whether the Opposition members are in the same country.This dream—the New Zealand Dream—is alive and well. This place is better off than it has ever been before. The standard of living continues to rise. Incomes continue to rise. There are more schools—in fact every school in my electorate is now connected to the world through ultra-fast broadband. Whether it is Martinborough or Pongaroa those schools and those kids are now connected to the world. We have more children in early childhood education than ever before. More children are being immunised and more children are reaching National Certificate of Educational Achievement level 2 than ever before.This place is in good shape. The New Zealand Dream the Kiwi Dream is alive and well. Those members say that we do not care. Well I have outlined a couple of things that have supported the Kiwi kids of today and of course my colleague Mr Bakshi has already mentioned the $25 a week that demonstrates that we do care for those who are less well off. The superannuation level has outpaced inflation; real incomes have outpaced inflation. People of all walks of life are better off than they were in 2008.Alternative party policies have been and continue to be confusing and conflicting. Flip-flopping is what you can best describe it as. Those members say they support small businesses they say they support a stronger economy and they say they care about jobs for the ordinary New Zealanders but their actions speak louder than words. They choose not to vote for the free-trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement but funnily enough they were the architects of the Chinese free-trade agreement which of course we support on this side of the House.Much has already been spoken about the flip-flopping nature and the indecisiveness of the Labour Party. I would like to spend the next couple of minutes discussing the Green Party’s conflicts as well which are not quite as often publicly displayed if you like. There are two factions that I see in the Green Party and they conflict with each other which is why they will never be part—in my view at least—of a coalition of any Government whether it be with Labour or National. On the one hand we have those members who claim they support and protect the environment. These are the people who actually want to rip apart the economy. These are the guys who want to take away the dairy farms. They want to close the dairy farms they want to take the cattle off the land and they want to take the sheep off the hills. That would be fair enough if that was a policy and they were consistent through their party but of course they are not.On the other hand the Green Party has a faction that wants only to redistribute the wealth created in New Zealand. These are the people who want to pay a minimum wage of $19 or $20 an hour but they forget that it has to be paid for. So you can see the irony: the second group is in direct conflict with the first. The first wants to rip down the economy—it does not want to support irrigation projects it does not want to support free-trade agreements and it does not want us to trade with the rest of the world—but then of course the other side of that party needs a growing economy if is to achieve what is its aspirational goal of increasing the minimum wage to say $19 or $20.We are on the right track. There is a Kiwi Dream. It is alive and well. It is being supported by a strong National Government led by Prime Minister John Key. Thank you.