Young JonathanJONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth): I refer to the report on the annual review of the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. On page 4 it speaks of the Regional Growth Programme which is very very important for New Zealand because out in the regions as we know—us regional MPs—there is huge opportunity for growth and there are massive resources that are enabling this economy to prosper.Just following the previous speaker Denis O'Rourke speaking of the virtues of rail—well our businesses and our freight forwarders use rail where rail is efficient and cost-effective for them. But often they need to also utilise road transport because it is a cost to businesses to offload from a factory to a rail head and then back to a truck to be able to get their product to market. They need to find efficiencies around that and I am sure the bright people at KiwiRail will work and create some innovations.When it comes to regional New Zealand I want to talk a little bit about the $135 million being invested into State Highway 3 and why that is important. It comes on the back of a very successful Government that has been able to enable this country and this economy to grow. We have surpluses that we are able to reinvest into our economies—$11 billion over the next 4 years and some of that is going to State Highway 3 which you Mr Chairperson Borrows will be very familiar with because no doubt yourself and other members of Parliament from Taranaki go up and down that passage of road quite often.But what travels that road in great numbers is the road transport industry because it carries freight in and out of Taranaki over that road. We know that when there are closures to that road—as there often are because of the terrain and the weather elements that we cannot control—and those vehicles need to go south up through Feilding and up State Highway 1 for every trip that those trucks take to either bring produce and food into the region or take exports out it is an extra $1000. That is a huge cost to the people of Taranaki a huge cost to business. It is speaking not only about the resiliency of that road but also the safety of it so what we see is a Government that through its good management of the economy is able to afford an infrastructure spend of $11 billion over the next 4 years and the people of Taranaki appreciate that.Looking at regional growth—in fact New Zealand is covered in regions 15 regions. There are metropolitan centres with large amounts of population but then there are regions. Over this last year 137000 jobs have been added to the New Zealand economy and many of them are in the regions. Just last week I was in the Hawke's Bay meeting with Business Hawke's Bay and it said that over the next year it was anticipating 4000 new jobs. This is a horticultural area very much the same as Gisborne which over the next few years is looking at another 1200 jobs. There are jobs available for New Zealanders. There are jobs available in highly profitable businesses and many of those jobs are high-paying jobs as well. We encourage New Zealanders to seek out those jobs.But one of the great steps that this Government has taken with the action plan in Gisborne is to fund a job coordinator. Those businesses are so hard at work doing business that managing a mobile workforce through many orchards and horticultural plants is quite difficult because they work hard. So there is coordination to recruit to train and to enable those new employees to come into those positions. But that is great news is it not? It is great news to see these people finding employment. We know that up in those regions 10 months out of 12 they need those workers there. It is great to see that these regions are succeeding and this Government is supporting them through the Regional Growth Programme. Thank you.