Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to take a call on the Appropriation (2016/17 Confirmation and Validation) Bill for the economic development and infrastructure sector. I would like to take a brief moment to wish everyone happy Passover a fantastic Assyrian New Year and I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter break.What a shambles—what a shambles this Government really is. What a shambles the last few weeks have been for Labour and this coalition of the reluctant begrudging and desolate.I'm here to talk about the hearings of the Crown agencies ministries and organisations that came before the Economic Development Science and Innovation Committee over the past weeks to talk about the work that they have done over the past year and what they are looking to do in the coming months. The reports give a thrilling account of the hard work of the former National Government working very hard for New Zealanders supporting telecommunications our digital future and our nation. In particular once the ultra-fast broadband (UFB) roll-out is actually completed in 2022 around 340-plus towns and cities will have UFB. We are doing rural broadband mobile black spots. Those are all happening as the initiative of the former National Government. This will actually make us a digital leader in the global sense.However—the last six months I guess—what a shocking last six months into this three-year parliamentary term it has been. I'd like to talk particularly about the Radio New Zealand visit to the select committee. It is now an infamous note I guess that when the Radio New Zealand hearing actually happened I think at the beginning of last month the public and the media and the committee were led to believe that certain things actually happened—that the meeting between the Minister and the now former head of content and head of news had been very casual. Actually the Minister's corrected answer to the House was that they had an informal breakfast—that it wasn't formal at all. The media reports now transpire that there was actually a diary note—that she had in fact diarised it. So I'm sort of a little bit baffled as to how an informal meeting came about.It wasn't as if the Minister and Carol Hirschfield ran into each other at a cafe after going to the gym for example or that it was a chance encounter—both happening to turn up to the same cafe for breakfast. It was in fact a formally diarised meeting. But let me tell you members how it was diarised. I would have thought that when members actually meet someone and when it was a scheduled meeting that usually the names are actually included.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Excuse me. Look I'm sorry to interrupt the member. I have been having a look at the report that is before the House. Unfortunately Radio New Zealand although it appeared before your select committee is down to be debated under the Māori other populations and cultural sector. I've let the member go on for a while while I have been having a look at that but I really think that I'm going to have to ask the member because these themes have been set out to come back to excluding the discussion around Radio New Zealand. The member will need to seek another opportunity when that comes up under the Māori other populations and cultural sector.MELISSA LEE: Thank you Madam Chair for that clarification. I shall look forward to addressing those issues when I actually return to the House to debate that.I guess what we're actually looking at is that when we're talking about economic development the previous National Government led this country so well that we're actually at the forefront when it comes to things like what I talked about earlier. Ultra-fast broadband to 340-plus towns and cities will make us I think it is like number four in the world. I think that is something to be very very proud of.Also talking about rural broadband it's actually about regional equity and I'm sure that the Hon Shane Jones will agree with me that people living in the regions actually want to have the equal opportunity for growth in their regions and the economic benefits that they can reap from our advancement in technology and digital connectivity. These are things that were actually done by the former National Government and I have to say that I am very proud to have been part of that Government delivering for New Zealand. It is unfortunate that in the last almost six months of this Labour-led Government we're not seeing the plan that some earlier members have talked about.