Patterson Mark; Mallard TrevorMARK PATTERSON (NZ First): Could I just before I respond to that contribution take the opportunity on behalf of New Zealand First to extend our condolences to the Jones family. Of course the Hon Shane Jones is a highly respected member of our caucus and I know someone who has many friends and is one of the great characters in this House and I know that you will probably all join me and us in extending our condolences and showing our respects to his family on the passing of his father.I guess the contribution we've just had from the member for Clutha-Southland Mr Walker actually follows on from that funeral theme. It has been emanating from the Opposition benches over recent times. It wouldn't be so bad if it was actually borne out by some facts and we've just seen the forecast from the IMF: the 3 percent GDP growth out for five years; unemployment trending lower; and importantly real wages beating inflation. That is the challenge: to get a growing economy where everyone benefits not just everything going up to the top 1 percent. As we look at the egalitarian message we've done around this we're taking foreign buyers out of the housing market so our citizens get a better shake of the stick. But there's an old maxim Don't listen to what people are saying about the markets; listen to what the markets are saying about themselves" and oh what a story they're telling. The sharemarket where actual people put real money and invest is at record highs.I want to highlight off the back of Mr Walker's contribution the fact that the latest quarterly update from the Ministry of Primary Industries on primary industry exports is up to $42.2 billion up 10 percent at a record level. We have challenges of growth not stagnation. Dairy revenue is up 14 percent and encouragingly that's off the back of value-add. It's not on more volume. We've actually got 200000-odd less cows than we had two years ago but we're starting to trend in the right direction in that value-add.Horticulture is up to nearly $7 billion up 4.7 percent. Arable is up 20 percent and a lot of that is based on herbal remedies and natural remedies that we're manufacturing and adding real value to. And forestry is up 11 percent as we embark on our nation-building 1 billion trees strategy.Of course Mr Walker alluded to the $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund. He may be sceptical about that but I can tell you his mayors and his constituents are very excited for the first time in a number of years to actually have some money available for their infrastructure and their projects. There's the $1.1 billion tax credits that came in the Budget to help us innovate help that value-add. There's the trade deals the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership as Mr Walker alluded to. There's the EU trade deal. We were at the British High Commission this morning—and I know Mr Walker was there as well—and they're enthusiastic about a UK trade deal. We have been there for those farmers in Clutha-Southland with the M. bovis and yes they should contribute some themselves but we're putting up $886 million the vast majority of that coming from the taxpayers of New Zealand. But of course the industry that I do want to highlight is the red meat sector and isn't it great to have a $9.2 billion industry up 10 percent. But of course one of the challenges that we have as an industry is the pipeline of synthetic proteins—this disruptive technology coming down the pipe at us. We must respond as a nation. But imagine my shock and surprise as a farmer as much as a politician when I saw our national carrier our national champion highlighting and showcasing the very threat that we face the Impossible burger—and not just putting it on the menu but showcasing it putting videos out and talking a big game. It's paying journalists to go overseas. The Air New Zealand charter in its guiding principles actually says that one of their aims is to promote New Zealand companies and in this case they have badly let their rural constituency down. Those constituents that only have the choice of Air New Zealand have no choice to take their business elsewhere—the tens of thousands of meatworkers the farmers and the truckies. They all have to—Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired. Before I call Nicola Willis there's been a box that's been sitting in that area without a member behind it for the vast majority of this time. It's to be taken down off the bench. Thank you."