Henare Tau: Imprest Supply DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHenare Tau: Imprest Supply Debate[Sitting date: 06 August 2013. Volume:692;Page:12396. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Third ReadingHon TAU HENARE (National):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Kai a koe e hoa e Mita nui atu te mihi ki a koemōtōhaerenga maii rotoi te Whare o te Raiona.Nō reiranau mai haere mai.Ngā mihingā mihingā mihi ki a koe.[Greetings to you Mr Assistant Speaker. To you colleague Mita an overwhelming tribute to you for coming into the House of the Lion. So welcome welcome. Acknowledgments greetings and salutations to you. ]I want to talk first about the farmer-hater whom I heard in the House this morning David Cunliffe—that man who so wants to be the leader of the Labour Party. You know he railed against the rich in his speech. He railed against the rich and told us how he loves the poor. But he does not want to live in New Lynn. He does not want to live with the poor people in New Lynn. He would rather live inWestmere—[Interruption ] Oh I am sorry; it is Herne Bay.I love it when we see the Labour Party members get on their hind legs and yell out: “We are against mining. We don’t want to see any oil exploration or any mining in our electorates.” Do you know what? That same day they go to the airport and wave goodbye to their sons and daughters and their nieces and nephews who are going to Australia so that they can go and get mining jobs. For goodness’ sake! Those members think that that is the way to prosperity.If you were to listen to the speeches we have heard this morning and it is undoubted that we do not listen to them—or many people anyway—this country is in dire straits. This country is falling over. So why do we have 3 percent growth? Why are we projected to have growth in the next few years of 2 to 3 percent? If that was the case if our country was a basket case we would be going backwards economically. All those members can do is say to foreign investors—and mark my words it is not the investment of me and my mates in New Zealand; it is actually the foreign investment—Hon Member: All your rich crony mates.Hon TAU HENARE: —all my rich mates out in TeAtatū North—it is the foreign investors. It is the investment money that comes from overseas that makes us the country we are. Labour’s big policy announcement—and I know that it resounds well with the general public and that goes for any country—is to say that the housing problem is all foreigners. It is due to foreign investment. It is due to the foreigner buying a house in New Zealand as an investment. I have not once heard any Labour MP talk about greenfields andbrownfields. I have not heard one Labour MP talk about freeing up land so we can build houses so people can have what you and I had which is the opportunity to purchase your first home. Once you have got your first home the world is your oyster.Labour members talk about Skycity. Listen we in Auckland and in New Zealand get a free—listen up—a free convention centre. It is a world-class convention centre with thousands of jobs not only in the building of that place but also in the running of that place. The downstream jobs that come out of that are enormous—are enormous. For what? For a couple of hundred extra pokie machines. I tell you what. When the pokie machine number is all tallied up it is still less than it was 10 or so years ago. So what is the big deal?The Government Communications Security Bureau—I see in the papers for the last week there have been some warnings from the United States of America over some terrorist attacks that might happen. I wonder where and I wonder how it got that information. It did not just think about it. It got an intelligence-gathering machine. That is how you protect your nation. The hysteria that is being thrown around by the Labour Party and the Green Party about mass surveillance—it is not going to happen. Here is the reason why. No agency has the capability of mass surveillance. Not one of the organisations in New Zealand has that capability.I want to talk about national standards just for a moment. When national standards were proposed by the Hon Hekia Parata everybody fell off their horses. They said basically that the sun was not going to come up in the morning and the sky was goingto fall in. Well lo and behold because of national standards people are succeeding—people are succeeding. Have a look in theDominion Postfrom yesterday at the front page.Kris Faafoi: It has nothing to do with it.Hon TAU HENARE: Oh it has got nothing to do with standards. It has got nothing to do with national standards says Kris Faafoi from Mana who does not really know where McDonald’s is. I have got to tell him this.Kris Faafoi: Do you know where it is?Hon TAU HENARE: Oh yes I know where every McDonald’s is and I tell you what I even know where the 24-hour ones are. It is like this. If you set standards and you keep standards up then our kids will succeed. There are more people now in training—training for proper jobs quality jobs—than ever before. Gone are the days when you could just go off on your own and get the Government to pay for a basket weaving course that was never going to get you anything or a hair braiding exercise down at the local polytech. No that is not a good spend. That is not a good spend of taxpayers’ money.Andrew Little: Oh not again.Hon TAU HENARE: Oh here he is—here he is. He is the working-class hero Andrew Little just waiting—waiting in the wings—to be able to get that top job. He has always coveted that top job. He was like that in the Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union but he wanted to move up so he joined the Labour Party and now he is after David’s job. Now he is after David’s job but I am not sure which David.Kris Faafoi: How many parties? Three parties?Hon TAU HENARE: Three mate.Kris Faafoi: Three?Hon TAU HENARE: Three and proud of it—and proud of it. It is something you could not do—well not you Mr Assistant Speaker. But I tell you what we also heard the figure this morning about power price rises. Under a Labour Government there was a 72 percent increase in power prices. Under this Government and we have been in for only one and a half terms it is 16 percent—16 percent. So if Labour members want to quibble and argue about what has been going on—you hear from David Cunliffe that man who lives in Herne Bay and represents the poor people of another electorate. He just loves it does he not? What was that David? No sorry you cannot speak. He talked about the razor wire and the secure gated communities—Hon Anne Tolley: It’s like Herne Bay.Hon TAU HENARE: Yes and he knows this from sitting on his deck in Herne Bay. I have heard that you are not supposed to go down that road and people are representing their electorates but the thing is that when you rail against the rich and you rail against the people on theForbesrich list and then you have the gumption to get up and say: “I support the poor. All our policies are about poor people.” and you do not want to even live in that electorate you do not want to even live with the people whom you supposedly represent—and I know what Labour members are going to say. They will have a go at the Prime Minister. But let me just finish on this note—let me just finish on this note. When you wave goodbye to your sons and daughters and your nieces and nephews but you will not allow them to get a job in that industry in your own country that word starts with an “h” and I will let you work out what that word is.