Woods MeganHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): That was a speech 18 years in the making that we've all been waiting for and what it came down to was Release the list because people want to know if they have a job." I think this was an echo of the National Party caucus meeting on Tuesday. Where is their party list? Who's left with a job after what we're going to see in only a few weeks' time? "Release the list"—we are only a few weeks out from a general election while New Zealand sits at a crossroads where there are such important issues at stake and that is what the brand newly minted Leader of the Opposition has to say in her first general debate speech: "Release the list." Was it a blueprint for an alternative vision for this country? No. It was "Release the list."Well I've got some news for the Leader of the Opposition. Let's talk about what this Government is getting on and doing. While the party on the other side has been obsessed with itself over the last weeks we look at just one small part of the New Zealand Upgrade Programme. Let's have a look at what we're spending in our local communities through our schools: 2488 projects are under way in our school upgrade programme; $249 million worth of work is under way. When I'm in my local electorate I talk to local tradies who are talking about the contracts they are getting at their local school and how this is so important to keeping their businesses afloat.But I think this is a time for reflection. On this side of the House we are incredibly proud of a Prime Minister that has led a decisive health response that saved lives and set us up for an economic recovery. Our rebuild plan is already in motion and we are already creating jobs. We are going in the right direction and it is important that we keep moving in that direction. We are committed to making sure that we are standing up for New Zealanders just as we did when we put New Zealanders first to make sure that we were protecting their health. Well we had baying from the opposite side that we were being too extreme that we should be doing X we should be doing Y. We stayed a course and we stayed a course under a Prime Minister who understands what leadership is about a Prime Minister that understands what her responsibilities are to this country. Not only did she keep us safe in terms of our health but this has set ourselves up as a country with the most economic and social freedoms of any country in the world and that is a position that we will protect. That is a position that we are protecting through our managed isolation facilities. We are keeping COVID out of our communities. We are keeping it at the border by making sure we are working in systematic and managed ways to ensure the security of those borders.What we have is an Opposition that is full of rhetoric. What we have is an Opposition that is continuing what they did in Government releasing an idea in a press release. They are untested uncosted—ghost roads yet again. When they talk about what the economic plan is it is very much reverting to type and ghost roads. The first cab off the rank was a road the second cab off the rank was a road and the third cab off the rank was another set of roads. But let's have a look at this. They are cutting Auckland Transport's funding by not identifying which projects will go. So how about you release that list Opposition? How about you tell Aucklanders which projects—SPEAKER: Order!Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: —are going to be cut? The axe is hanging over projects like SkyPath. These are the things that will create jobs. What we have is an Opposition that is assuming that the New Zealand Transport Agency will borrow a billion dollars a year and they are raiding the COVID fund and putting our futures at risk. On this side of the House let's keep moving."