Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Mr Speaker. I would just like to remind the member who just spoke Priyanca Radhakrishnan and gave the Hon Nathan Guy a barrel about trade that the party on the opposite who is now the Government—or part of the Government—actually stood against the Trans-Pacific Partnership when we were trying to do it last year. And I would also like to make a comment—again the Hon Nathan Guy brought up about the wool carpets. And every question I've put in to the Minister for primary industries about wool has come back very vacant about what's happening with wool and I have to say that was a broken promise that the New Zealand First Party were talking about—wool carpets—and they can't call themselves the provincial champions when they go round breaking promises like that.But what I really want to talk about today is the golden egg. That Government over the other side talks about the golden egg. It's welfare. OK. We're going to give everybody everything! I know there's a fable out there and perhaps this Government could learn a lesson about the goose and the golden egg. This Government is going through the process of killing off the geese that are laying the golden eggs.And the Hon Damien O'Connor who's over there was at the same farmers' forum that I was at yesterday and the Hon Damien O'Connor would've probably heard Cameron Bagrie giving his presentation in the morning. I don't know if the Minister was there for that part of the presentation but the message was that we are going to end up with a growth void.Yes we have to change. Every industry is looking at change and every industry accepts that climate change exists but we cannot jump to the idealistic state and that is exactly what this Government is trying to do. We are going to end up with a growth void and we are going to end up having no money to fund the social policies that this Government believes that they are going to fund. We will not change the climate of the world by killing our economy. We have to come down to scale.We forget how small we are. We forget that we have some of the most efficient farmers in the world. And while we might not be a large country we have a large large impact on the export market. So what happens if we kill that goose that lays that golden egg? We will have less efficient farmers across the world supplying food products and guess what that's going to do for climate change? Absolutely nothing. It won't reverse it and it will probably at some point increase it.I want to say the same thing although this message has been said time and time again in this House and doesn't seem to be getting to the other side which is that if we cut off our gas supplies which are going to cut off much quicker than what this Government believes they are—because what happens is the horses are being spooked and we can stand here and think Oh well that's fine. We've got 30 years." Actually those permits do go out 30 years but if we don't build that bridge and we don't get that transition we are going to have a growth void. Because do you think that some of those companies are going to hang around in this country for 30 years and wait? And some of the science that we need to solve some of our issues doesn't even exist yet.So yesterday we heard that horticulture is going to be the answer to everything and our leader the Hon Simon Bridges asked the Prime Minister about horticulture and who is actually going to be the people who are going to harvest the apricots. So another broken promise.We talk about immigration. We heard a lot during the election about immigration and about how we're going to cut the numbers in immigration. And hold on! We've got nobody—nobody—who's going to be wanting to pick our fruit. We've got nobody—we've had people getting up and talking about no jobs in regional New Zealand. Well tell somebody who doesn't go there that. Because I've got jobs in my electorate for plumbers and electricians and truck drivers and you name it—farmers all those sorts of people. We have got to get our students and our children transitioning out of school into those jobs.So the warning is that this may be a nuclear moment for the Prime Minister's generation but if the geese that are giving us the golden eggs kill our economy and then fail to reduce climate change then it well may be a nuclear moment—[Time expired]The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."