Naylor Jono: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNaylor Jono: General Debate[Sitting date: 02 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8484. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONO NAYLOR (National): Can I just say how proud I am to be a part of a well-balanced Government that is aspirational for New Zealand and aspirational for New Zealanders. As I have sat here over this last 12 months of my first term of Parliament one of the big cries that I have heard from the other side of the House is that National is concerned only about its rich mates. It is an accusation that is often made and so I thought I would have a look back over my past year here in Government. I had a little bit of a look at the pieces of legislation that I have had the privilege of speaking on—there have been 30 of them. There have been 30 different pieces of legislation and that is just my share—the ones I have spoken on. I want to look at some of the themes of that legislation that I have had the privilege of speaking on.Some of them have been in the justice sector because that aligns with the Justice and Electoral Committee which I am on. We have had the Harmful Digital Communications Bill which has sought to protect young people in particular from online bullying and the like. We have had the public protection orders going into place which are going to help protect victims of crime from further victimisation; extended supervision orders; and the like. In the social space we have got the Support for Children in Hardship Bill with the bills arising from it having their third reading tomorrow. It is a fantastic piece of legislation raising the benefits in real terms for the first time in 40 years—that is not just “looking after your rich mates”. We are seeing the Social Security (Extension of Young Persons Services and Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill which is going to help our most vulnerable teen parents and high-risk young people.This is a Government that is doing all sorts of other things as well not just the things that I speak on. We have seen some great initiatives in the environmental space with the expansion of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary which will now be one of the largest ocean sanctuaries on the globe. We have got a whole bunch of other things going on. In the health space we are seeing waiting lists for elective surgery coming down as well—that is not just “looking after your rich mates”. But we have also been focused on the economy and I know in my home patch where I come from in the Manawatū we have been privileged to have a regional growth study done that has been a partnership with the local councils with the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment and with the Ministry for Primary Industries. It is a fantastic document which is going to lead the way forward for regional development in that region. It is going to see more jobs. It is going to see people doing a whole lot better. So we are seeing that happen in the economy space. Then financially of course against all odds we have got a Minister of Finance who has delivered a surplus for the New Zealand Government.This is a well-balanced Government as I said which is aspirational for New Zealanders and for New Zealand. To go along with this continued ongoing balanced approach tomorrow we will see the first reading of the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill. Again it is a sensible balanced approach. We would all acknowledge that a Resource Management Act should be and it still will be focused on protecting our environment. But our Resource Management Act has not actually been a particularly useful tool at times for some people and we know that it has been a roadblock to sensible development. It has been unnecessarily holding up processes which has made things difficult for businesses and for people who are going to be producing jobs in our regional economies. It stops them from moving forward so it is time that we had some reforms of the Resource Management Act.There are some really good reforms in particular. What I have seen in my time in local government that what was challenging for people was the amount of time that it took to get plan changes through. So there is going to be a 2-year time limit on getting those plan changes through under the new Resource Management Act. It has also been ridiculous over time that if you want to do something as simple as putting a deck on your house you have had to get consent from not just the neighbour who is going to be most affected by it but also just about anybody else in the neighbourhood. We are going to start streamlining these processes through the Resource Management Act so that we continue to look after and take good care of our environment but also ensure that there is going to be a sensible approach that will deliver other better outcomes for New Zealand. So in summary we continue to move forward with this Government in a balanced approach that is delivering for New Zealand economically socially and environmentally right across the board. We continue to be aspirational for New Zealanders. We continue to be aspirational for New Zealand so that New Zealanders can continue to live more fulfilling and prosperous lives.