Stanford Erica; Rurawhe AdrianERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm happy to contribute to the first reading of this COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill. This is a bill that as previous members have already mentioned we're going to support to select committee because in general terms it's not a bad bill. Frankly potentially we would have done something similar in a similar situation—potentially we would have gone further but potentially we would have done something similar.Indeed we were in a very similar situation to this in 2009 with the global financial crisis. We found ourselves with a huge amount of unemployment and the need to stimulate the economy and we fast tracked infrastructure. We can now look back on some of that visionary work that we did in the roads of national significance—incredible visionary legacy projects that created thousands of jobs.Now we don't have a problem with the concept per se; as I said we did a similar thing. But the problem is not about the concept so much as it is about the projects. These guys have got a $20 billion slush fund and huge borrowing capacity and they're facing potentially by the end of the year 140000 people out of work. So in a way they've done the right thing to fast track some projects like we did after the Kaikōura earthquake and with the global financial crisis so you'd expect some really good grunty projects that create thousands of jobs. We'd expect vision. What have we got? Well we've got 11 projects—and while they're not in themselves necessarily bad projects they're not going to create the employment and the appreciable benefits that we need in these extremely difficult times. Let's just compare and contrast for a minute National's roads of significance fast tracked under legislation to what we have in front of us today. Roads of national significance: the Tauranga Eastern Corridor a massive legacy project; a project in this bill: the Pētone cycle and walkway—now I'm sure that that's a great project but in terms of great legacy visionary projects and the number of jobs that that's going to create these two things are just worlds apart. Roads of national significance: the Auckland Victoria Park bottleneck the State Highway 1 complete game-changer project; in this bill: the Papakura to Pukekohe rail electrification which you know we did the rest of the Auckland network and this was announced that we would do the rest of this project. Look it's a nice-to-have and it's a good thing but if you compare and contrast the two they're completely different in terms of their scale and their vision. And then of course there's the Unitec residential development the project that began under the National Government and then reannounced by Phil Twyford in 2018 and now rehashed re-baked reannounced under this bill as if it's something brand new—so this whole Hey here's something I prepared earlier." This isn't a project that's going to create more jobs; these are jobs that had already been announced. There's no contractors sitting at home going "Great. A whole big new project for me." This had already been announced.The rest of the projects are a disparate list of upgrades and road widenings. These are not projects that will create the thousands of jobs that we need. The number of jobs that it's said to create is—what?—1265; Air New Zealand laid off 4000 jobs alone. We're talking 40000 jobs that have been lost already and these 11 projects are nothing compared to what we need. But there's more than that. These projects aren't game-changers. I mean they're not terrible but they're not visionary or legacy. We don't just have to consider whether or not these projects will create jobs—and sure some jobs will be created by these 11 projects that I've already talked about; there won't be that many—but they're projects that need to deliver wholescale appreciable gains for a lot of people.If you take my community for example—I'm the MP for the East Coast Bays. Tens of thousands of people from my electorate and surrounding electorates drive in hours and hours of traffic both ways every day and the big game-changer for my community is a second harbour crossing. But what do we get? We get a cycle and walking path under the harbour bridge. Now look it's something we supported it's not a bad idea but it's hardly visionary game-changing legacy stuff that's going to create thousands of jobs that we can look back on in years to come and say "We did that." and "Look what we did." I mean it's a nice-to-have and we support it and it's great but it's not visionary and it's not legacy. If this Government was serious about delivering wholescale game-changing legacy infrastructure and fast tracking that then we would be looking at a second harbour crossing and some really big legacy projects not a SkyPath.As I said earlier—I've only got a few seconds left—we will support the bill through to first reading. We've got serious problems with the two weeks that I'm going to have in my select committee to go over this bill compared to the normal six months we would get. But given that—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! The member's time has expired. This is a split call. David Seymour—five minutes."