Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise in the adjournment debate and also a debate for the sitting calendar—where we debate the days that Parliament will sit and also days that we don't. We have this unhelpful term which we call recess" where the public thinks we go home for a break. Or as my wife famously once said when she was asked "What's the worst thing about your husband's job?" she said "Recess when he comes home."Mr Speaker can I acknowledge you and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. With your indulgence I do make a reflection. I sometimes wonder if I have missed out by being in this era of politics with you being the gamekeeper rather than being an MP in the time that you were the poacher because that would have been interesting times. And maybe one day we might see you become the poacher again. Although at times there—SPEAKER: Mid-career—you never know. MATT DOOCEY: —are signs of that and it's never too late to have another career.Can I also acknowledge your right-hand man Roland Todd and wish him sincerely a merry Christmas and happy New Year as well. Could I also acknowledge and wish a merry Christmas and happy New Year to David Wilson and Rafael Gonzalez-Montero as well and thank you for all your work over the year and all of your staff and staff around the precinct as well.I too want to continue with my good friend and colleague Poto Williams who made a focus today of talking about the former National Government and acknowledging the former National Government because of course Canterbury is just about to get a fantastic Christmas present thanks to the former National Government. In a week or so the newly minted transport Minister Michael Wood will be coming down to open the long-awaited Northern Corridor motorway. It's been on the books since the 1960s and it took a National Government to get it over the line. That's why we're going to call it either well "Gerry's Drive" or "Brownlee Boulevard"! But I know many in Canterbury are looking forward to that well several-hundred-million-dollar roading infrastructure project. That is an early present for Canterbury. We're looking forward to the Minister coming down to announce the Belfast to Pegasus motorway including the Woodend bypass as well and I'm sure he's looking forward to hearing a lot about that over the current term ahead.There has been a lot of focus on COVID and dare I say it this Government was lucky with COVID. What we forget and the adjournment debate is about farewelling—and they'll be pretty happy to farewell the former Government and the 52nd Parliament because the last Government was a failed socialist experiment. KiwiBuild fees-free light rail—it all lined up.Why do I know they're moving away from it? Because I picked up their new messages now—and Mr Seymour will enjoy this. They're now moving towards third-way politics. They're moving away from their socialism. Of course third-way politics—the architect was Tony Blair the prodigy of Maggie Thatcher. The claim for third-way politics is it claims to modernise politics by rejecting leftist policies. Now I'm looking forward to the term ahead with the rejection of leftist policies. If that's what they're continuing to do—third-way politics apparently under Grant Robertson—this is going to be interesting. So with a resounding victory everyone thought Parliament was moving to the left. Let's watch. I think instinctually it's going to move to the right as we're going to see the Labour Party leave its roots and move into the centre and maybe a bit more to the right as well. And that's going to come with a lot of tension in its base and I'm looking forward to that.A final report. Grant Robertson he didn't talk about the report coming out of the library: 117 hours in urgency out of 381. In 2018 there were only 14 hours in urgency; in 2019 30 hours; this year 117 hours in urgency. That's the legacy of this Government ramming through legislation. Out of 66 bills prepared to go to the Governor-General 43 of them under urgency. I'm looking forward to the year ahead."