Hayes Joanne: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 26 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:3986. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JOANNE HAYES (National): I am pleased and very proud to stand and speak on this wonderful Budget. Last week we had a ripper of a week ending at 10 o’clock on Saturday night. The whole of New Zealand benefits from the wonderful Budget that this Government has released to the public over the last few days.I just want to talk a little bit about some of the Budget funds that are actually going into the Christchurch rebuild. I want to talk a little bit about the anchor projects because yesterday we were fortunate enough to be part and parcel of the opening of the bus interchange in Christchurch City. That was a $53 million project and was one of our major anchor projects in the city. That was just one of many anchor projects. The next big project that we are looking at is the justice precinct where we will be bringing 1700 employees back to the centre of Christchurch. It is co-locating them on a site at the heart of Christchurch City. This is an amazing amazing effort.This Government has stood by Christchurch from September 2010 from the very first earthquakes and we will continue to stand by it until our projects have been completed. I will quote a press release that came from Peter Townsend who is the chief executive officer of the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce. This is what he said: “It is once again a reinforcement”—that is what this Budget is—“of the Government’s continuing involvement and its role in the rebuild of Christchurch and in particular the central city.” That is an amazing statement from Peter Townsend because that is exactly what we are doing.I want to focus a little bit on the east because some of the projects that have been happening and the investments that have been happening have been affecting the east—and it has been a good effect actually. On the education side of things we are looking at the development of the Aranui community education precinct. This is an amazing project. It will start education right from preschool and will take students right through to secondary school. This is amazing because it grows the community from babies all the way up to young adults and it hooks up with the tertiary education organisations as well—Canterbury University and Lincoln University.I want to talk about the co-location of our secondary schools. We have got two secondary schools—Avonside Girls High School and Shirley Boys High School—that are being relocated to QEII Park Recreation and Sport Centre. That co-location has been in the pipeline for a long time. There have been a lot of discussions about it. The Ministry of Education has been engaging with the community over a period of a good 18 months and now the decision has been made that these two high schools will co-locate to QEII Park Recreation and Sport Centre–the park where during the earthquakes we lost the stadium and the swimming pool and where quite a lot of the sportsgrounds were devastated during that period of time. But now it is up and up for the east. Here we have the co-location of these two high schools.If that is not enough take the funds that are going into health in Christchurch. Burwood Hospital is going to be a beneficiary of the funding for the development of Christchurch Hospital and Burwood Hospital. What we are going to see over the next 2 to 3 years is a blossoming of the east and the Burwood-Queenspark area. We are going to see that blossom as the schools take off and as the hospital is redeveloped and the people of the east are going to get facilities there that are second to none in this world.Finally—I can see that the clock is ticking away; 5 minutes is a very short time—I want to talk a little bit about trades academy. The He Toki ki te Mahi apprenticeship programme was launched at Rehua Marae just recently. That is a great initiative when it comes to tertiary education. I heard the Opposition speaker talk about there being no investment in education. Here is a quote from the Lincoln University deputy vice chancellor international and business development Jeremy Baker. He said: “A 20 percent increase in tertiary funding for aquaculture announced in today’s Budget is being welcomed by the university.” If that is not proof of investment in tertiary education then I do not know what is. Christchurch is flourishing it is growing and we are very very proud to be part and parcel of that whole investment. Thank you.