Mark Ron: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMark Ron: General Debate[Sitting date: 22 July 2015. Volume:707;Page:5205. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): Well having listened to those paltry contributions from the Government members it strikes me that probably “paltry” does indeed sum up the flap that this Government is currently in. This is something our MP from the Wairarapa Alastair Scott is in who incidentally used to run a chook farm and who is now infamous given his chicken run from South Wairarapa young farmers when he told them that foreigners buying up farms ahead of Kiwi couples was a good thing—Rt Hon Winston Peters: Who said that?RON MARK: Alastair Scott. He actually told young farmers that and I thank him for that because I got all of their votes Alastair—thank you very much for that. But that is right. That is Alastair Scott our Wairarapa commuter MP who last night referred to the Wairarapa people his constituents as “the locals” in Wairarapa. I am told he also thinks Wairarapa Bush is a forest somewhere out the back of Carterton.Of course in recent days poultry has figured high on the menu for Ministers such as Nathan Guy and Amy Adams who tasted something that I have never had the opportunity to taste in the form of kererū. If anything judging by the fact that they were deep-frozen roadkill apparently and the fact that the Ministers are still with us it perhaps proves that our food safety laws Minister Adams probably may be a little bit overcooked or maybe undercooked depending whether you are Māori or not Māori—but there you go.It is interesting—the views of Dame Tariana Turia of the Māori Party on kererū. She has our party wondering whether we will see a launch of a new iwi-fried kererū brand featuring a kererū Double Down but obviously only for a limited time because as we know this view was supported by Te Ururoa Flavell when he went out to bat for his former co-leader saying a kererū could be eaten in some circumstances. I quote from him for the benefit of the National Party members who support this sort of thinking especially Minister Maggie Barry who is sitting over there. I quote Mr Flavell “You know we have our customs our own tikanga about ensuring the preservation of kererū and within that ground I then—ah—we could understand that it’s OK by our people to take responsible decisions around that.”—responsible decisions around that. I guess it is one rule for Māori and another rule for everybody else. What we would like to know is what the Minister Maggie Barry’s rule is.It is interesting also when you look at the flagging polls of ACT and the Māori Party. Maybe they should join up because it was Gerry Eckhoff from the ACT Party who wanted to farm kiwis and create the kiwiburger as well. It would be interesting to see—a Māori Party - ACT alliance—but Maggie Barry might have a comment on it.But seriously tomorrow the Reserve Bank will cut interest rates as the economy cools and the debt chickens will come home to roost but only New Zealand First has a bill to help stop farmers from being crushed by foreign banks. We know right now that the banking vultures are circling above our dairy farmers and young farming couples who are struggling under a debt burden. We know that as land values fall and as stock values fall on these dairy farms those banking vultures will move in. The only thing standing between those young couples farming and the banks the foreign-owned banks is New Zealand First and our debt mediation bill. Is it not an irony that the very people who seek to stop us from rescuing those farmers from the banking vultures who are circling are the National Party the National Government and the Wairarapa MP Alastair Scott?