Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a great privilege to rise and speak for the first time in the 53rd Parliament and I acknowledge you for becoming Deputy Speaker and for all those new and returning for the great privilege that it is to serve this great country.Well there's a fair amount of water that has gone under the bridge since the last time I stood up in this House—for this country for this Parliament for me personally. Certainly my own personal challenges have been well traversed and I do not intend to go through that in any detail this afternoon but I do want to put on record some personal acknowledgments. To those colleagues on both sides of the House that reached out with personal messages of support and care can I thank you for your compassion because it had a huge impact on myself my wife and my family and reminded us as a family that there is something that unites us all in this House regardless of political view and that is care for each other. I just want to acknowledge that here today.To those thousands of New Zealanders who emailed me and messaged me and text me and many many of them who have come and given me a hug and I don't know them from Adam can I thank you for your concern and your care and your willingness to have the confidence to share with me some of your own journeys. Some of the letters have been incredibly moving and profound. In fact to be honest a lot of them started with Dear Todd I'm never going to vote for you. I don't like your colour"—your team's colour—"but you know I admire some of the things that you have said." That has had like I say a huge impact. I just want to acknowledge those who are listening be you a farmer or whatever your circumstances are. Be assured that in me you will have someone who will attempt to give voice to some of the challenges that you are living to ensure that this Parliament as a whole commits the appropriate resources and care to ensure that there is an environment that says it is OK to put your hand up if you're struggling personally.I have a great privilege of representing the community of the Bay of Plenty who gave me great support in this last election and expect me to be an advocate for them in this House to as my colleague Chris Bishop said in his superb speech earlier keep the feet to the fire of this Government in terms of their commitments.Already this Government has failed on many aspects of their promises to our community because if you look at the Speech from the Throne from the lens of a community that I represent when this Government talks about $42 billion in infrastructure and at the very same time delays again the Tauranga Northern Link despite the fact that the previous Government had it out to contract and now it is not going to be started until the end of next year; when you talk to the community of Tauranga about housing when the very housing development at the bottom of the Kaimais has been constrained yet again because State Highway 29 isn't even in their long-term plan for investment; when you talk to the school principals yet again there is a Government that is giving true meaning to hollow words. The empathy the way intent is emoted is world class; the delivery falls very very well short and it is my intent to the very best of my ability to be able to hold this Government to account to ensure that the people of the Bay of Plenty actually get the support they deserve for a city of 150000. Wellington it's time to wake up: Tauranga is not the sleepy little city that it used to be. It has 150000 people and it deserves some recognition and investment from this Government as opposed to warm words.Mr Speaker it's nice to see you in the Chair and can I also acknowledge you personally for your support of me over the last few months.To conclude because I understand I have to stop at about 4.30 to let the newbies have a go I do want to say a few words about trade. There have been few times since 1972 when the UK left us in the lurch that trade has been as front and centre and so critical to our collective prospects as it is today. As an export-dependent nation we sit astride enormous potential and enormous peril. We have deeply held New Zealand values we have deeply valued trading relationships and we have deeply entwined personal cultural and familial ties. They are and will be greatly tested in the months and years ahead. We must be seen as a country and a Parliament that can navigate such issues and tensions with humility consideration and deftness.It is within this context—and I see my opposite the Minister for Trade and Export Growth sitting opposite me—that if ever there is an issue that calls for the best of us and bipartisanship in its most comprehensive form in my view it is trade and it is trade today. We need to work together for the interests of this country and bipartisanship goes both ways; so I offer to the Minister a willingness to work with him through these issues because they are significant and missteps are easy. The impact on this country our export relationships and our ability for our communities be they large or small to be successful in the 2020s depend on us navigating these very rough seas well. I firmly believe that if we do that with a considered and collective voice we can do that better but the ball is in the Minister's court. I offer it in good faith but I would hope to see that reflected back in a genuine sense. I found when that was offered in the context of climate change in the last term with the Hon James Shaw that the level of engagement was at a level from my perspective that was both surprising and I think we would say with all fairness quite constructive.The National Party as Chris Bishop I think so superbly said earlier acknowledges the fact that you won and we lost and we will reflect deeply and are reflecting deeply on what that means for this party and our views and how we articulate what we think is best for this country over the next 10 years. For those of you who have been—and I've seen it happen—unable to resist the pot shots of success be assured that every one smarts every one we receive hits but you are up against your traditional foe. We are the National Party and we will return because we will bring—[Interruption] And the mocking starts but just—Hon Aupito William Sio: Welcome back Todd.TODD MULLER: —be assured Mr Sio—and you've been a great amplification of that humour—every single laugh hits every single one smarts every single one makes us redouble our effort to ensure that the people who believe in centre-right values have the party they expect in Parliament and the party they expect in Government come 2023. Everything we do—everything we do—over the next three years will be with those people in mind the people in rural New Zealand in urban New Zealand who fundamentally expect a National Government to give voice to their aspirations to their families' aspirations. They expect the best of us and be assured the National Party will bring it over the next three years. Thank you very much."