Hayes Joanne: Address in ReplyText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Address in Reply[Sitting date: 28 October 2014. Volume:701;Page:282. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JOANNE HAYES (National):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. It is great to be back. I am just so rapt to be back in this House; it is a privileged position that I hold. I want to congratulate you Mr Assistant Speaker on your promotion. I also want to congratulate Lindsay Tisch on his Assistant Speaker role; the Hon Chester Borrows Deputy Speaker; and of course the Rt Hon David Carter on his role as the Speaker.I also want to extend a welcome to our new MPs to this 51st Parliament especially our 14 new MPs. It was not long ago that I actually stood in your shoes. It was actually the end of January this year. It is a highly privileged position to be in as you know. I know that you are going find the time here very valuable and you are going to meet some very good colleagues along the way.I want to extend my thanks to those people in Christchurch East those wonderful people who party voted National. I was selected 100 days prior to the election and spent about 50 days on the ground there and I met some amazing people in those streets. Some of those streets are a little bit battered but the people were strong and resilient and they continue to be that today. No doubt they will see me in their electorate from time to time.I also want to thank the volunteers from the Christchurch East National Party electorate committee. I want to thank Rae Mills. Rae is an old soldier from way back and he has worked tirelessly for the Christchurch East electorate. Rae if you are watching today I just want to extend my thanks to you for chairing our great electorate committee and also to Peter Macguire our deputy chair. I also want to say kia ora to a whanaunga over there on the Opposition benches Adrian Rurawhe. Adrian and I worked together. Adrian was actually on a board that I was the chief executive officer of in Whanganui so I want to say kia ora to you too Adrian.My Address in Reply speech is just going to cover off a couple of areas: one is growing the economy and the other is supporting beneficiaries in employment in Christchurch. I know that a strong economy produces more jobs and higher incomes and that when we have more jobs and higher incomes our well-being rises quite high. One of things I want to say is that these two ingredients for better well-being will go down well in the Christchurch East electorate. I know that.The Business Growth Agenda comprises six key areas. Those six key areas include education. Without a good education we struggle to get on employment ladders—we struggle to do a lot of things. I was brought up to believe that and that a good education will set you free.Innovation is the next key area. We have the No. 8 wire innovative thinking of all New Zealanders. That is what we do. If we have not got the tool we make it. That is what the innovation area is all about. When we start looking at infrastructure we are looking at roading and all those areas. For the Christchurch area we are progressing well in that area for horizontal infrastructure.When we start looking at skilled and safe workplaces it is one of the areas that Minister Michael Woodhouse is working on and it is a great area to work in because it is really important. I come from a Māori health provider area and that is one of the key areas that we had to do policies for to make sure that our staff are safe in their employment.Export and capital markets are key in order for this country’s economy to grow. We are already feeling the benefits of a growing economy. Already our best and brightest are starting to return to New Zealand. We are feeling that and it is great to have them home so they can help us keep on growing this wonderful country that we live in.My second focus area is in supporting beneficiaries into employment in Christchurch. When I was campaigning the Opposition MP did not like that. She thought it was a waste of money. Well I can tell you now that on the front page of the Christchurch Press we had one of those beneficiaries who came from the Wairarapa. He got a job in construction and he was made a supervisor in such a short time. I do not think that he would have felt very humbled or very happy that MPs were out there saying that what this Government has done was a waste of time for him. Thank you.