Walker Hamish; Mallard TrevorHAMISH WALKER (National—Clutha-Southland): Thank you Mr Speaker. Last month I had the honour of attending Fieldays up near Hamilton Mystery Creek and what was really nice about this particular Fieldays was just walking around the different stalls seeing the innovation from the agricultural sector and seeing the young people. There were a lot of young people there. I want to talk about those young people and I'll come back to them later on but we need these people joining the agriculture sector because if we want to increase our exports we need to attract more young people to this space.I just want to talk about some of the Government's decisions and their impacts on Clutha-Southland. It's not all doom and gloom. I do want to congratulate them—despite being a lion in Opposition they're a bit of a lamb in Government and one of those areas where they were a lion was the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I want to acknowledge the Hon Todd McClay who's in the House today and also the previous Minister of Trade the Hon Tim Groser—absolute stellar job for New Zealand. For New Zealand to increase our standard of living—we're a small country at the bottom of the Earth—we need to trade more. So I just want to congratulate the Government on passing the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership. If they didn't pass that that would have really hurt Clutha-Southland.You would've also noticed at Fieldays the Minister of Agriculture came out with a rural-proofing policy—a rural-proofing policy. Now let's have a look at some of their policies and how they're affecting Clutha-Southland. Immigration: Labour campaigned on cuts of 25000 to 30000. New Zealand First campaigned further to 10000. Well I've got restaurants in Queenstown—take the Lone Star for example. They struggle to open some lunchtimes because they can't find staff. I've got a restaurant in Te Ānau the Ranch Bar and Grill. If you go there it's a wonderful restaurant. They can't even open up the upstairs of their business. They're functioning at 70 percent of their business. How are they supposed to make money?We also saw during the Budget the Primary Growth Partnerships which led to some really innovative projects and value-added projects being cut. The oil and gas decision—this is a decision which will cost New Zealand hundreds of millions of dollars. This decision didn't even go to Cabinet. Irrigation—just cut off. Biological emissions into the emissions trading scheme—this is going to cost on average $5000 per farm.Another example of the Government being a lion in Opposition and a lamb in Government: the Minister of Agriculture was forced to go around with his begging bowl for the Government Industry Agreement for Biosecurity Readiness and Response agreements which were put into force in 2013 by the Minister for Primary Industries at the time Nathan Guy where basically if there's a biosecurity incursion the industry forks out up to 12 percent. The Minister of Agriculture a month or two ago went round with his begging bowl and increased it to 32 percent. Take M. bovis alone—this is going to cost the industry a couple of hundred million dollars more.Take the regional growth fund or the New Zealand First survival fund": just under $60 million was applied for from Northland—$62 million given out. That's right—less was applied for and more was given out. The rest of New Zealand: $250 million was applied for and only 42 percent was given out so over 62 percent of that fund was given out to Northland.I just want to talk about Labour campaigning on looking after vulnerable children. On Monday this week in a small rural town in Otago the Roxburgh children's camp had a celebration—well it wasn't really a celebration; it was a bit of a farewell. Over 70 members of the community turned up because it's closing down. This is a camp that looks after some of the most vulnerable children in Otago and Southland. These children have been sexually abused physically abused and mentally abused. I just want to read out a comment from the Central Otago mayor who called the closure "an absolute bloody outrage": "I'm just heartbroken … the Minister for Children Tracey Martin … [needs] to look at herself in the mirror and ask if she has any integrity for what she's done to the children of the South."While I'm on it if we want a strong farming sector and a rural community we don't need to cut essential health services. We took office in 2008 amongst a global financial crisis. We had the Christchurch earthquakes—some of the most expensive disasters GDP-wise that any country in the world's ever faced. We borrowed more to keep these services going. Labour took office late last year and what do you know? Roxburgh children's camp no more; Lumsden maternity hospital—probably gone; we're trying hard—and 600 grand out of the Rural Health Alliance. This Government needs to start listening to rural New Zealand.Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."