Scott AlastairALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa): It gives me pleasure to speak in the appropriations debate and I will be particularly referring to the annual review of Treasury to June 2016. It is very interesting that the Opposition members do not like to hear what reality is. They do not like to acknowledge that we as a country are performing extremely well. We are one of the easiest places to do business we are way down on the corruption rankings we are massive on the social investment—that particularly hurts the Opposition when the analysis of the critics is done. We have as has already been mentioned one of the highest employment rates in the OECD. This is no coincidence. This is because we are a stable Government and I am going to talk about infrastructure.Mr Joyce has already mentioned that the party of infrastructure is National and despite the cones that are around the electorates particularly in Auckland holding up traffic we are spending billions and billions and billions on roads rail and broadband. The other thing we are doing is repaying debt. Mr Joyce mentioned a new target of 10 to 15 percent of net debt to GDP by 2025. That is a new target that is an aggressive target and one might ask where we get this money from where we find this money to invest in the infrastructure and where we find this money to pay down debt. Well we get this from the families the communities the people of New Zealand who pay their taxes and that is as a result of a strong growing vibrant economy. That is the end of it; that is the beginning of it.It is a strong economy which is a prerequisite that enables us to invest in the infrastructure as we have talked about. It is a strong economy that allows us to repay debt aggressively and that is important because we need to be in a position by 2025 to have between 10 and 15 percent of net debt to GDP because who knows what is around the corner? Who knows what other crisis might happen? It is all about resilience setting up New Zealand to face another inevitable earthquake. It is not a matter of if; it is just a matter of when we suffer another earthquake in the Shaky Isles of Aotearoa New Zealand.The economy is permeating—not just in Auckland not just in Wellington and Christchurch—through the whole country through all of the regions. In the South Wairarapa District Council there are 200 new housing consents right now on the table. That may not sound a lot to Auckland MPs but that is a big number and that will make a difference as people move to the regions. Why are they moving? It is because there are jobs there are opportunities. The connectivity of ultra-fast broadband makes a difference. You do not have to be sitting in an office in Wellington or Auckland to conduct business internationally. All of our schools are connected to the internet. That connectivity is making the world a smaller and smaller place more accessible to our young people and future generations from every community from our regional as well as our city communities.Rural Broadband Initiative 2 is out for tender right now. Those results will be coming out soon I would imagine and that again is going to increase the percentage of New Zealanders who are going to have high-speed internet no matter where they might be situated—whether it is the west coast of the Wairarapa which is remote difficult to access and has a low population or elsewhere. Those people will be connected to the rest of the world like the rest of us and that gives those people the opportunity to succeed.The Opposition does not like good news. There is going to be more and more of it over the next 10 hours and I look forward to hearing more of it from my colleagues on this side of the Chamber.Reports noted.