Uffindell SamSAM UFFINDELL (National—Tauranga): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's great to be able to stand here and I'd like to congratulate everyone who is a part of this 54th Parliament. To all of the new MPs welcome to Parliament. I wish you all the best in your career here in this place and I hope you are able to deliver for your electorates and for the people of New Zealand. To all the returning MPs well done on your re-election and I also wish you all the best and to all of those from the 53rd Parliament who haven't made it back thank you for your service to New Zealand.I would like to send my congratulations to the Prime Minister the Rt Hon Christopher Luxon to the Deputy Prime Minister and to the Speaker and the Assistant and Deputy Speakers including yourself sir. Well done on your roles. I'd also like to congratulate the coalition Government: National ACT and New Zealand First. It's very good to be on this side of the House. I will give a little mention to two other MPs who are here who are from my neck of the woods: Tom Rutherford from the Bay of Plenty and Cameron Luxton also from the Bay of Plenty. I've had a fair bit to do with you both in varying degrees over the past couple of years. I know you will bring a lot of passion and enthusiasm to this place and will represent the people of the Bay of Plenty and by extension Tauranga as well so that we can continue to make it the best region in New Zealand. Well it's been a real sigh of relief I think. I know that I've noticed it and I know probably a few other members have when they've walked around their electorates and they've had a lot of people coming up to them and saying We are so happy that National is back in Government." We hear it over and over again and I definitely hear it when I'm walking around Tauranga. We got in there because we'd campaigned on what the New Zealand people were interested in. I think that when people look back on the 53rd Government and why those members are no longer on this side of the House—and this is just my opinion—they will probably see that they didn't deliver on what they talked about when they were in Government and when it came to the election campaign they failed to talk about the things that actually mattered to Kiwis. As a result they were resoundingly rejected by the electorate and we have been given a mandate on this side of the House to deliver for New Zealand. We have a very ambitious 100-day plan. I think this will be one of the most transformational Governments in New Zealand's history and I am very proud to be a member of it and I'm very proud to represent the people of Tauranga. Now there are four key things we are focused on and that is to manage a stronger economy for New Zealand to ease the cost of living crisis and to deliver tax relief; secondly to restore law and order; thirdly to deliver better public services; and fourthly to strengthen our democracy. You will see in our 100-day plan that we're quite clear around some of the things that we wanted to do. We needed to rein in Government spending. It was out of control under the last Government and that delivery of service wasn't there. Look I think most people would be all right if you were willing to spend more as long as you actually got something back in return but we didn't see that so we are going to be reining in that spending there. We have committed to repealing some of what we would consider to be poor or misguided legislation from the previous Government around the fair pay agreements three waters and projects like Let's Get Wellington Moving and Auckland light rail. We're committed to returning the Reserve Bank of New Zealand mandate to prioritise price stability which is very important and is almost one of the most important things that we need to get on top of because if we don't get on top of inflation quickly it is going to continue to erode the wealth of New Zealanders. We've been in a cost of living crisis for far too long. We've seen rents up $180 a week over the past six years. We've seen grocery prices continue to eat away and petrol prices continuing to increase and Kiwis have really been doing it tough. But good news: we have some sound fiscal discipline back on the Treasury benches.We're also committed to making New Zealanders safer so we are getting rid of the prisoner reduction targets and cracking down on gangs. I know that the Hon Mark Mitchell is going to do an absolutely fantastic job as the new Minister of Police. We are committed to delivering better public services and I think in this House we would all agree that we want to see excellent First World health and education services. We might have different ideas around how we want to get there but we all share the same concerns that we want our children to have a First World education. We want them to graduate from school and be able to compete in the 21st century where skills and knowledge are going to be more important than they ever have been. We want a healthcare system that looks after people and can deliver for them so if they get sick or they fall ill or whatever it may be they know that they can get these services that they need to get them through and we haven't been seeing that in education and we haven't been seeing that in health. So we are going to restore health targets. We are going to lift educational performance. From 2024 I know Erica Stanford will make an excellent education Minister and we are going to ensure that New Zealand children at primary and intermediate level are spending an hour each day on reading writing and mathematics. As a parent of three young children that makes me very happy indeed.We are ambitious for all New Zealanders. We are very ambitious and we want to raise the standard of living for all New Zealanders. We want all New Zealanders to have a fair shot at their version of the New Zealand dream whatever that may look like. So we are going to be a Government that enables that. We are going to be a Government that reduces restrictions and reduces impediments. For too long we have seen red tape—nonsensical red tape that adds more pain instead of benefits—getting in the way. We have hampered our primary industries which contribute enormously to the wealth and prosperity of New Zealand and it's through those sectors that we are able to pay for the health and education and police and all of those other services that we need.We are ambitious for New Zealanders on this side of the House and I look forward to working very strongly with all of my colleagues. I look forward to working with members on the other side of the House. I know that they may have different versions of how to make New Zealand a fantastic country but we will work together and I am confident that the 54th Parliament will be a fantastic Parliament for New Zealand and I wish us all the best going forward. Thank you Mr Speaker."