Tabuteau FletcherFLETCHER TABUTEAU (NZ First): It is a proud opportunity I have to be one of the last contributors in the House in this the last general debate of the 51st Parliament. I want to acknowledge you Mr Speaker and I would like to acknowledge the staff in Parliament here for the work that you do and for the work that they do. This will be my last opportunity to do so.Chris Bishop: Ever.Hon Amy Adams: Yes it will that's true—for ever.FLETCHER TABUTEAU: In the 51st term. Come on guys loosen up—far out. Chris that might be true for you. Relax. I would like to acknowledge my Wellington staff and I would like to acknowledge my Rotorua staff. We have learnt a lot together and we have achieved some wonderful outcomes for the people of New Zealand and the people of Rotorua.I am particularly proud to be a member of the New Zealand First caucus. We have been an incredibly disciplined and hard-working team this term and I am proud to be able to say that in this House this afternoon. More so we have listened to the people of New Zealand as we have moved around the country and talked to them and heard them. What we say to them is we have heard you and we have written policy and we bring to you in this election—moving forward—a vision of New Zealand that represents all New Zealanders.Our deputy leader spoke earlier about a broken Government and a broken economy. I wish I could go into all of the detail because what the members over there have said needs to be fact-checked in this political environment because nothing they have said stacks up. Today as someone who has spoken around the country on regional development and who has followed Minister Joyce's absurd regional development reports—which kind of have some good ideas every now and then but are so disconnected from the regions whence they came and have no funding attached—I say to New Zealanders: take heart. New Zealand First has heard you and we say to you that yes we do live in a beautiful country. We are made up of a diverse group of people who in the main want the same outcomes. Actually we all want to grow and we all want to do better for the people of New Zealand.What we should acknowledge and what I would like to speak to is our primary industry. I would like to acknowledge the regions as our heartland and the economic powerhouses of this country we call home. Let us hope actually that that never changes because in our vision and as we move forward a New Zealand First Government would look to play a part in growing value-added business in New Zealand. We would—Hon Ruth Dyson: So you're going to pick the winners?FLETCHER TABUTEAU: Yes actually we would be part of picking winners. We would see our fish stocks processed here on shore. We would take our trees and have them turned into building materials to build our homes and our commercial towers here in Wellington and Auckland for example. We would take our dairy products and help Kiwis turn them into valuable finished products. We would take our meat and have it processed here with state-of-the-art facilities.First of all and foremost amongst that we would actually have to stop the sale of our land of our forests and of our assets to so-called foreign investors. It is not investment; it is a buy-up and it must be stopped if New Zealand is to have any kind of future that will actually benefit the people we presume to represent. The difference between New Zealand First and that Government apart from ad hoc catch-up laisar-faire economics is that we have a plan.Chris Bishop: Laissez-faire.FLETCHER TABUTEAU: Yes I did have that written down. I did not want to confuse some of your members there. We have a plan. That Government will only react like it is doing now to emergency after emergency. We are hurting and the economy and the people of New Zealand unfortunately are going backwards.As a New Zealand First caucus member I am excited about the future under a New Zealand First Government and I look forward to engaging with Kiwis across the country in the coming weeks when we will show them what we can do and what—as a country—can be achieved together. A party vote for New Zealand First is a statement that we have had enough and that we must grow as a country. Thank you.