Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): It is a week of highs and lows and to get up in the morning for the last few dairy auctions and find that the price is gradually starting to change—the 50c announcement in the forecast from Fonterra recently was absolutely brilliant for our farmers. Today to wake up again—I am actually starting to look forward to waking up every fortnight on a Wednesday morning and seeing things gradually starting to change. It goes with a word of caution though because there is quite an amount of debt that has accrued over the last 2 or 3 years so there is still caution in place because there is a lot of debt to be paid back. What has disappointed me over the last 2 or 3 years is that everything in the economy has been going particularly well for many of our primary industries but unfortunately the cream on the top which has been dairy has been missing. I look forward to that cream on the top coming back again and our dairy farmers starting to smile. I acknowledge the people from the rural support trust who have been out there helping over that time to keep people afloat not only financially but in terms of the care and attention needed when people are under pressure. So that is a high. The low has been that I was looking forward to Friday of this week because the iwi of Taranaki Te Atiawa and Ngāruahine were really looking forward to coming here. We have got 3.6 percent growth in this country and we have got iwi here that are looking forward to partaking in this growth. They actually have a vision they have a future and I know that they were looking forward to coming down here on Friday. I am going to be here on Friday—[Interruption]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! The member will resume her seat. It is not so much the volume of the barracking but the nature of it. I will assure members that I did not have leave and they are to cease asking me.BARBARA KURIGER: Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. So yes in answer to your questions I will be here on Friday but unfortunately I am not going to be doing what I thought we were going to be doing on Friday and I am deeply disappointed for our local iwi. On a more positive note I want to talk about last week. I was at a Careers and Transition Education Association seminar in Taranaki with local schoolteachers looking at how we transition our young people from school and into work. If there is one thing that provincial New Zealand really needs it is more skilled people. No one can ever tell me that there are no jobs in provincial New Zealand because I go out there every day and I talk to employers and not only do they want farm workers but they want truck drivers they want plumbers and they want electricians. I commend these teachers and these people who are actually transitioning process—the three in two in schools. We have actually given $14.4 million in Budget 2016 for another 5500 apprenticeships by 2020 and that has been allocated. If there is one thing that rural New Zealand needs in spades it is skilled people because now we have actually got out there we are getting the roading infrastructure we are getting the broadband we are getting all the technology—young people will come and live in provincial New Zealand if they can pull their cellphones out of their pockets if they can connect online. Other people will come and are coming. We are seeing them coming and living in the parts of the world that we represent. They can come and live there and they can now do business because the infrastructure is right there for them. The other thing is with roading—I have seen the commitment in my electorate. I have just had Minister Bridges out opening the first safety road in his $600 million Safer Roads and Roadsides Programme—State Highway 37. It goes out to Waitomo. It is integral to tourism. Tourism is another thing that is growing particularly in provincial New Zealand. I see it all the time. We have got a $1.2 million grant going into 80 beds in the middle of the Pureora Timber Trail. Most people do it over 2 days it is 85 kilometres—we have needed that accommodation. We get people to come here and we get people to stay here longer. I am really proud to represent Taranaki - King Country and have this extra money going into roading tourism—all of the things that we aspire to as a Government. We are the third-fastest growing economy in the OECD and I am very proud to be part of this National Government. Thank you.