Luxton JoJO LUXTON (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I am absolutely delighted to take a call in this the general debate. I was actually quite surprised to find out that I've only been able to speak in three general debates since we've been here in the House so over the last 18 months I've had three contributions and now today I'm delighted to take the fourth. I am going to take the time in my contribution—it will be short unfortunately—to highlight all the good things that this Government is doing. I would need far more than five minutes to be able to highlight everything that we have been doing.I also wanted to celebrate the fact that I am standing here on this side of the House as in what Minister Iain Lees-Galloway said united and focused and delivering for New Zealand. Alongside with my colleague the Minister Henare I also want to congratulate our Ministers for the superb work that they are doing in Government. Far too often people complain particularly the Opposition about things that aren't going well. So I actually want to take the time to acknowledge our Ministers and congratulate them for everything that they are achieving. I'm really proud that we've actually got a progressive aspirational Government and I think that is something that all New Zealanders are excited about.We've been investing in so much in this Government and I was trying to think about what investment we saw from the previous Government and I thought Hmm". I sat and thought long and hard. So the flag referendum investing in a sheep farm somewhere—I don't know. Can any of my colleagues help me out here and think of anything that was invested in in the previous Government? No. OK. Oh well never mind let's move on. Let's move on to something a little more positive things that this Government is investing in: things like health things like education and things most importantly like families and actually really really importantly we're investing in regional economies. Absolutely essential. I just want to talk a bit about education first. You know I was absolutely alarmed to find out that the previous Government had not allowed or accounted or planned for roll growth in our schools. So what we ended up with was overcrowding in our schools. We had children having lessons in school gymnasiums staff rooms libraries cloakrooms if you please surrounded by school bags even the dental clinic. Remember the old dental clinics that we had onsite? How on earth is that a conducive environment for children to learn in? And then you know we need more teachers to come in and work in this sector. How on earth are we supposed to attract teachers into teaching in a dental clinic teaching in a cloakroom or teaching in a library? But that's OK. This Government has funded over 200 new or rebuilt classrooms and school facilities and in fact announced a new school rebuild for Ashburton College. And guess what? It takes account of future roll growth. Now that is something to be celebrated.I also want to talk about—because I'm running out of time and I've hardly covered anything. But anyway—Kieran McAnulty: Just like them.JO LUXTON: Ha ha! I'm going to move on to the Provincial Growth Fund. That's right Mr McNulty and the fact that this Government is investing in regional economies.I think that under the previous Government in the electorate where I live we might have got toilets. So you know we got some toilets. But under this Government we've had an announcement particularly thinking about the area where I live: the Opuke Thermal Pools and Spa in Methven and they're hoping to open in 2020. That's going to create 120 new jobs inject approximately $162 million into the local economy and could see 150000 visitors within five years. So we are investing in health education families regional economies and we are on track to deliver better outcomes for all New Zealanders. In the words of the Hon Nathan Guy "But wait there's more." There's always more."