van de Molen Tim; Rurawhe AdrianTIM VAN DE MOLEN (National—Waikato): Thank you Mr Speaker. Look it's interesting to have the opportunity to rise and speak at short notice following Mr Strange. Now I would just like to touch on some of the comments he has made in relation to the Prime Minister's statement and in fact check some of those. One of the most interesting of those he talked about was how this Government has invested $1 billion in the Waikato Expressway. Well perhaps I've missed that announcement but we certainly haven't seen any of that come into the Waikato region. In fact under the most recent $8 billion infrastructure announcement from this Government—$8 billion—the Waikato received only $58 million and that was for a roundabout: $58 million out of $8 billion. And that's $58 million more than Lawrence Yule had in the Tukituki electorate. So I would question the validity of some of these claims.Actually the Waikato region is growing rapidly. We look at this golden triangle between Auckland Hamilton Tauranga—massive growth massive increase in freight movements vehicle passenger movements through there. We need ongoing infrastructure investment. And that's why the last National Government invested significantly in the Waikato Expressway—a $1.2 billion project over 100 kilometres going down through my electorate from the Bombays down towards Piarere. The next stage was to extend it down to Piarere a busy intersection between State Highways 1 and 29: 20000 vehicle movements a day far too many accidents there every fortnight an unplanned road closure along that corridor. And yet this Government came in and cancelled that project. It's simply not good enough when you've got that massive growth happening in that corridor not to mention the safety benefits that we're seeing off the back of these four-lane expressways. So it is a real shame to see the Government's sudden sudden epiphany to shift the prioritisation towards four-lane expressways. And we welcome their change in focus and congratulate the Tauranga area and the advocacy of Todd Muller and Simon Bridges to get the Tauranga Northern Link back on the cards there. But unfortunately we've missed out in the Waikato and I had hoped Mr Strange that with your strong advocacy we would have indeed achieved that project. But alas it was not to be. And so we shall continue on this side of the House to advocate strongly for that project because it is a crucial next link and of course from there then continuing over towards Tauranga as well. So what we're seeing from this Government actually is a consistent track record of failing to deliver; not just not doing things but actually saying I'll do it." and then not delivering on it. Again we heard Mr Strange talk about a whole raft of announcements for Hamilton. And indeed there are some very nice announcements there but they're announcements; they're not delivering. They're all intentions and talk and none of them have actually been delivered yet. There is $100 million for a mental health facility. Well there's no sign of that yet. It's still years away. This Government will never have the opportunity to deliver on all those promises it's making. They know they can go out and splash the cash promise all they like without having to deliver. We're seen that in the Waikato it's simply not good enough and our constituents deserve better. Then we look at the rural space and in the rural Waikato there's a lot of pressure at the moment. I do commend the Minister of Agriculture for just on Friday announcing a medium-scale adverse event in terms of a drought declaration there. It's been incredibly dry and I just want to acknowledge all the farmers going through some pretty tough times there. As if that weren't bad enough they were already feeling under pressure and we'd already seen confidence levels at historic lows late last year. That was despite at that stage still relatively favourable weather conditions low interest rates and indeed pretty good returns for their products whether it was milk or beef or whatever it might have been. So really that was driven by a significant change in policies and a lot of that is partly the climate change legislation but also the freshwater proposals that have been put forward. There's a massive shift in the expectation from this Government which has then been pushed out to the public that rural New Zealand needs to fix all our environmental problems. Now of course there is a part to play but it's not simply a rural issue. You can look at any number of urban centres—Auckland; Hamilton as Mr Strange just said; down here in Wellington—there are a whole raft of wastewater and water storage issues within those areas as well. So water is a big area that we need to focus on. Again it comes back to infrastructure and this Government's recent epiphany that actually infrastructure is important. I commend them on finally coming to the table with that but there needs to be so much more done. It's simply not good enough at this level.We are committed to that. We are the party of infrastructure and you can be assured that we will be delivering a suite of infrastructure projects if we're back in Government after September. Thank you.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Chris Penk—five minutes."