Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (Minister of Forestry): Apologies sir. The way in which it was reflected I did not gather that you had terminated his speech. I apologise.This is a dark day in terms of how low the National Party are prepared to go. They are losing support with this form of smear deviousness stigmatisation. They have no friends here. They are losing support amongst garden-variety Kiwis who are not interested in the National Party taking up the cause of the media. The media is not made up of shrinking violets; they are key contributors to the democratic process through the fourth estate. They don't need Paula Bennett to conveniently forget the last nine years of history. They don't need Nick Smith to overlook his own patchy record on such matters pertaining to judicial appearances.I want to come back and talk about what Kiwis are genuinely interested in. Let us speak about four things. Today they raised the question as to why we are maintaining the right of silence in matters pertaining to child abuse—and I will not talk about a case that may or may not be currently being investigated by the police. The right of silence is an ancient doctrine. The police currently have a host of other options available to them if they want to squeeze people who should be talking and make them talk.Secondly how many times over the last nine years have we seen this pattern sorry to say too disproportionately amongst my own community the Māori community. I say to the people the gangs the gang hangers-on up in Hawke's Bay and other places: when children are traumatised assaulted if you do not speak up you are cowards. Don't blame Oranga Tamariki when the remedy lies within yourselves. Stand up and shine the torchlight of honesty on the affairs of their own whānau. People who act in that cowardly fashion we call them in the Ngāpuhi country kutus—they are a type of social head lice—and I condemn all the people that are hiding behind either legal doctrine or manufactured excuses called colonialisation so as not to take responsibility for this awful social disease afflicting many of the members of our Māori community where little ones are punished and older people who ought to be held responsible are evading those responsibilities.Let me now talk about the gangs. The gangs are a social cancer and partly what I've heard from the other side of the House I cannot but agree but I say to the other side of the House: over the last nine years you allowed the police resources to shrink in proportion to the growth of the P-fuelled gang mayhem. As the gangs sent back people either willingly or unwillingly from Australia to New Zealand that's when we needed a massive increase in surveillance and statutory power and in police numbers. So excuse me if we think crocodile tears" when the other side of the House all of a sudden wants to borrow some Schwarzenegger approach of wandering around South Auckland and other such places in souped-up armoured vehicles. The reality is: follow the money honey. That is a famous expression and it is what we must do in order to curb and bring these gangsters—the gangsters with muscle and bling are creating the most destructive image amongst the rangatahi the young people that we are endeavouring to work for.So be under no illusions: the gangs have no friends amongst our party. That's not to say Christian reformation is not possible but if you want to take the Christian route get your gang patch dig a hole and burn it. Don't try and pretend to be Christian turning up at Waitangi but whilst you're secretly continuing to deal the lifeblood of gangs which is cruelty menace money and death.I want now to talk about what the people of the North have been saying today. They are glad that they have a champion—not the sitting member who thunders back home and whimpers when he's in Parliament not the trolls that continually seek to undermine the work of our stakeholders and various leaders in the North. They are happy that a Government within a remarkably short period of time has provided a remedy to a Zimbabwe-like problem of water access in Kaikohe and Kaitāia. The council should not be allowed to get off scot-free as we have announced $2 million to ensure that our senior citizens our kōhanga children our schoolchildren our businesses garden-variety households can enjoy what you and I expect to enjoy every day in urban New Zealand: access to volumes of quality water. We have solved that problem in the short term today.You don't solve those problems unless you're prepared to take risks and we didn't come from the North into Parliament without the ability to absorb risk and manage risk. Now I know outside of the North there are other places that central government should look at but the Northerners today can breathe a sigh of relief that in myself and the other three Ministers we have made a robust decision that will ensure that they enjoy access to water.Recently I was privileged to catch a ride on KiwiRail and we went to the Waiotira tunnel built in 1920. It has taken the Jacinda Ardern - Winston Peters duo of leadership a hundred years later for a Government to go back and fix up that tunnel. What we are finding in KiwiRail is that they're not relying on the Australian-based overpriced consultants. They have had the ability to draw and harness talent long since neglected and overlooked by the other side of the House to fix up the infrastructure ourselves. All they ever needed was some pūtea some self-belief and a clear direction a pathway of hope. That's what KiwiRail as a key feature of an integrated and robust future transport system has by working with the current Government.There are five things—if you look at a star it's got five points. Of course now there's a thing called the "Northern Star" and I don't claim to be that; I'm talking about the five-pointed political policy star shining in the North. The first point of that star is the revitalisation of rail north of Auckland into the North. Thank you Rt Hon Winston Peters. The second point of that star is the creation of a world-leading dry dock facility owned and operated by Babcock in association with the navy. The third point of the star is the four-lane highway. To demonstrate that our party our Government is willing to take a risk bring forward $12 billion worth of expenditure. There will be a four-lane highway from Whangārei to the new expanded Northport in Ruakākā Marsden Point.The fourth point of the star is that the Ports of Auckland will move. The Prime Minister has identified that the current location of the Ports of Auckland has outlived its social licence. It will go. Work is being done as to whether or not it goes to Tauranga to Northland—or whether or not as certain consultants would like we're going to build a massive island in the Manukau Harbour and hope that the ships of the world will go over the most treacherous bar in New Zealand or we're going to build a massive island in the Firth of Thames. I have very very dim views about both of those options.The fifth thing which we ought to bear in mind is the longstanding challenge that goes back to John Banks' days of relocating the naval resources out of Devonport freeing up that estate for housing providing an opportunity for new entrants into the navy to be able to afford to live as they join the forces as ratings. The pathway leads north. That's why all of the mayors all of the civic leaders all of the community advocates and all of the senior business identities have joined a programme called Kia Kaha.The five-pointed star of progress and development is a navigational star and we have set our course by those five things. Thank you very much."