Bennett David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: General Debate[Sitting date: 13 November 2013. Volume:694;Page:14639. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): I just want to acknowledge Georgina Beyer from this side of the House as well. When I first came into Parliament I remember your smile and your face around these premises. You are a friend to all sides of the House. We wish you the best. It is good to hear that things are happening tomorrow and that things have progressed well. Best wishes for that. I also acknowledge my colleague Sam Lotu-Iiga with his father passing. It is very difficult to come into our House and to express your personal circumstances at the time. I think everybody in this House can recognise and understand that. We appreciate the approach the Labour Party took and especially Iain Lees-Galloway for his comments afterwards. I am sure Sam appreciates that and we certainly do as anybody in this House would.Getting beyond the personal I guess there is the politics that this place involves and a big part of that is the nature of the battle you see between the main political parties that this room represents. Today we are in the general debate which is generally a time where we have a good fight and attack each other. But it is a bit more subdued today because of those earlier reasons.Sue Moroney: And they’ve got the B team from the National Party.DAVID BENNETT: But it is good to see Sue Moroney here my opposition from Hamilton. When we think of the last 5 years it is important to think of takingHamilton for example what this Government has achieved for the people of Hamilton. I remember that when I came into politics the big thing for Hamilton was to get the Waikato Expressway completed the road of national significance—Chris Auchinvole: Did you get it done?DAVID BENNETT: Yes we have got that through and we are getting it built.Sue Moroney: Are you just announcing it today? You’re announcing it again.DAVID BENNETT: The Ngāruawāhia section is due to be open soon. Sue Moroney is saying that we are announcing it again. Well we actually announced it we are building it and we are doing it unlike whatever Labour tried the last time it was in Government.Sue Moroney: How are the jobs atRuakura going?DAVID BENNETT: Jobs atRuakura—there will be more jobs at Ruakura as theTainuidevelopments go ahead there. That major inland port that you will see there will be a major part of the development of Hamilton East going forward. Another thing for Hamilton is that Hamilton has had a huge investment in its hospital in the development of the Waikato District Health Board’s main campus in Hamilton. Over $400 million is being spent on the Waikato District Health Board. That is big money being spent on the redevelopment of that hospital. I want to thank my colleagues from around the Waikato who have lobbied for that over the years. I know that it is in Tim Macindoe’s electorate and he is very keen to see that money spent at that institution.And then we go to education and we see the great developments at Wintec with the new buildings being built in Hamilton. We see the new schools being proposed for the north of Hamilton East and that shows a growing area that is being resourced and the infrastructure coming in from this Government.Sue Moroney: You promised that 5 years ago David. What happened?DAVID BENNETT: Sue Moroney was asking where it was 5 years ago. Well Sue Moroney the Labour Party would not do anything 5 years ago. It is only since—Sue Moroney: You promised it 5 years ago.DAVID BENNETT: Five years ago. What happened 5 years ago? The Labour Party went to a piece of land and said: “This would be a great place for a school.” It never promised any money never promised any process and never did anything. It had a photo in the paper with Sue Moroney on a piece of land saying: “Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a school here?”. And then she comes into this House and says that Labour promised it 5 years ago. What a load of rubbish. That is a load of rubbish. The reality is that the Labour Party did nothing. It deceived the people of Hamilton telling them that there would be a school there when there was never an intention to build it. [Interruption]DAVID BENNETT: Pardon? What did you say Sue Moroney?Sue Moroney: You promised it 5 years ago and it’s still not being built.DAVID BENNETT: Yeah—5 years ago she was nowhere to be seen.Broadband in Hamilton City—we are seeing broadband being put through that city. The ultra-fast fibre network being put through first in Hamilton and being delivered through that city shows a Government investing in that city. I want to introduce Hamilton today as an example to show what this Government has done in 5 years. Roads—we have built the Waikato Expressway and we are building the rest of it. The inland port is going to go ahead under National. We have got the internal ring route which is the road linking Hamilton North to the university. We have got schools coming into Hamilton North. We have got the university and Wintec having developments on their premises. We have got Waikato Hospital being redeveloped.