Eagle PaulPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you Mr Chair. Can I just say it's a pleasure to speak after my colleague Tamati Coffey and to just continue focusing solely on Part 1 because I know that's important and I've decided to come in and give him a hand. Look it's a hardworking committee the Finance and Expenditure Committee chaired by Deborah Russell on my left here—of course a hard-working chair I have to reiterate. But also this is a fantastic piece of work from the one of the hardest-working Cabinet Ministers the Hon Shane Jones there in his high-vis vest—Hon Shane Jones: Illustrious. PAUL EAGLE: —illustrious; the adjectives are coming thick and fast. But look I do want to focus on Part 1. I know the Chair is nervous that this may have been exhausted but can I reassure him that it hasn't because when we talk about community expectations boy is the list long. I remember that when the transport Minister the Hon Phil Twyford spoke in his speech he talked about nation-building and mentioned that wonderful public service agency the Ministry of Works. I was doing some research—as you do with these critical speeches in the House—and it was none other than the other side who got rid of it in 1996 I saw. I think that's key and I want to relate the disestablishment of the Ministry of Works in 1996 by that side of the House—what a disgraceful act that was to community expectations. I heard local government being mentioned and there was no better training ground or for those of us that have electorate offices to hear first-hand what community expectations are. Can I say that those expectations are just really basic stuff around infrastructure. So when they come into my office it's simple stuff they talk airports—you know why is every airport in this country putting their hand up to the Minister saying We need money we need funding for our airport extensions". That's an expectation that's quite real. Every single airport is crawling here saying "That lot on the other side they gave us nothing; absolutely nothing". What I now see is that Provincial Growth Fund logo up proudly going up like a coat of arms that usually the local authority co-owner would put up but instead it's that beautiful hook to say this has been funded by this side of the House—a coalition Government absolutely serious about infrastructure. I only need to walk down the road from the Wellington Airport and you see wharves there that are boarded up—that's infrastructure. But did you know that nearly every single wharf in this city is boarded up because there's been zero investment? They were discarded. I don't want to talk about the role of local government yet because that comes in a different part but it's sad. Add wharves to ports and another set of infrastructure—by this stage you're down at the railway station here in the capital city. There is no better symbol or icon of how infrastructure has gone so wrong in this city itself. I mean it's running through most of New Zealand Aotearoa and—they are all over New Zealand crying out for investment. Those are the expectations of community; they want to be able to have conversations around infrastructure they have certain expectations. Everyone's mentioned maintenance I mean come on—when you build something you have to maintain it. We know that from a personal perspective when you own your own home or you're renting or whatever maintenance is key. That's talked about there in Part 1. I think Kiwis have an absolute passion around getting infrastructure right. It's talked about every day in every town; every MP's talking about it. I'm so glad that on this side of the House we've put together a programme we've set up a commission—that I'll talk about in Part 2—led by the illustrious as he calls himself the first citizen of the provinces none other than the Hon Shane Jones himself and I'm very happy to speak on this bill. Thank you Mr Chair. Part 1 agreed to."