Bennett PaulaHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Prime Minister): Yes I would love to move that we move into the general debate. I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. Today what I am going to do is contrast National's announcements with the announcements that Labour has made this year so that is what we are going to do. Here is a quick snapshot. The quick snapshot is that ours is going to be a very long list and Labour's big announcement this year is that it is putting one Māori whom those members do not particularly like on the list and the ones that they do like are not going on the list. So that is pretty much Labour's announcement for the year. Rt Hon Bill English: Dealt to them. Hon PAULA BENNETT: They dealt to the—Rt Hon Bill English: No they asked for it. They asked for it. Hon PAULA BENNETT: Oh they asked for it—of course they did. So it is one rule for one and another rule for others so it is good. Yes you go out there and fight for your seat. Do not worry about the Māori vote and the party vote. That is how it goes. That is good. I look forward to other members in the Labour Party making announcements that they are also not standing on the list because they do not see that. I must say just personally I cannot help but have a moment to reflect on John Key because this is kind of his day I have to say and it is a bit of a privilege to speak in the general debate and just to get to put it on the record actually in Hansard. As that comes I just want to say at a personal level a genuine thankyou to him for the opportunities and support that he gave. I personally needed both. Then I also want to say from the National Party thank you very very very much to John Key for his leadership and—[Interruption] Yes we do feel that. Then I want to say on behalf of New Zealanders just thanks for your unrelenting belief in New Zealand and New Zealanders thanks for your optimism and thanks for pushing us and believing in New Zealanders. Thanks for the confidence that you gave to us as a country. Thanks for the place that you gave us in the world and you made us believe in ourselves and where we fit in the world a lot better. There are things that I particularly remember. I know that when I was the Minister for Social Development I literally used to get phone calls from John Key at all sorts of times and hours. They would be saying: I have just met someone in 'x' mall or in 'x' situation and they are going through this. Would you mind following up and making sure that they're getting all of their entitlements? Would you check that there is something that they can get connected to?". So he actually took a personal interest in New Zealanders as well. And I can see lots of people nodding because they will have had similar phone calls in their time either as a constituent MP—"This is happening. I have heard this while I have been out and about and would you do something?". I particularly remember a teen mum in the South Island who met him and he got into dad mode—which is what I like to call it—and really spoke to her about what she could do and the sorts of opportunities that she had. She then wrote to him a few weeks later and said that he had given her confidence in herself and in what she could do. She was going off the benefit she was putting it on her family she had got a job and she saw a future. I remember randomly bumping into a relatively young sports star and I got talking to them off the record and they started saying that John had actually helped them with career advice. He had sat there and said that "When the sport is over you need to have something else." I just went—man that man just went beyond the job of a Prime Minister at times and actually reached out at every chance that he could. I just want to say that I am really proud to have been one of his members of Parliament and on behalf of New Zealand I want that on record. Let us go to the long list of achievements because there is this really long list of not only achievements—Rt Hon Bill English: One minute—go fast. Hon PAULA BENNETT: —but more than that we have got what we have done. Here we go in 54 seconds Prime Minister we have got the police announcement of 1125 more police; ultra-fast broadband in 151 towns and 45 suburban areas world-class fibre is coming your way; superannuation—you made the call Prime Minister to say: "Let's raise the age in 20 years' time." Something had to be done. I have seen Nathan Guy's note. The Kapiti Expressway—$630 million 4 months early ladies and gentlemen and 18 kilometres long. Nathan Guy got on his bike and the Prime Minister got on his too. They rode it they saw it and they believed in it. Thank you Simon Bridges. Actually thank you Amy Adams for your announcement this year on the historical homosexual convictions which will be wiped. Thank you to the Government business and unions for working for the first time through pay equity with the joint working group. That is a huge one. Thanks for the $5.5 million extra in tourism infrastructure. Thank you—the list goes on. Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member's—Hon PAULA BENNETT: —regarding the Domestic Violence Act. The list is long. On this side are the ones with announcements. Sorry? Members opposite have nothing to say."