SpeechKANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): Thank you Madam Chair for the opportunity. First of all I would like to pay my tribute to the former member of Parliament from New Zealand First Pita Paraone who passed away recently. I had the chance to work with him for three years in Parliament so I would like to start with paying tribute to him. I would like to touch upon some of the votes which are under governance and administration. It has got a very wide scope particularly when we talk about internal affairs. There are seven Ministers responsible for this work. I would like to start with the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act the Act which was enacted in 2017 with the intention to bring the rural fire and the fire services together so that there could be substantial savings made in the future. But what we have seen is that the time line which was set this Government has not been able to achieve and stay on that time line. Particularly as we know the funding for Fire and Emergency New Zealand is through the insurance levy and the intention was that on 1 July 2019 the new levy regime would be enacted. But what we have seen is that the Minister of Internal Affairs has extended it by another four years and it will continue to be running into surpluses. Every year we will have almost $75 million in surplus and afterwards almost $600 million in surplus. We have been asking the Minister where that money will be invested and the Minister mentioned in her presentation that it will be used for upgrading the assets of the rural fire services. But still I think it is not justified that we keep on getting the surpluses and the levy payers—particularly New Zealanders—keep on paying extra money without any plan from the Minister. We want to make sure that the money which is collected is well monitored by the department and I hope that Minister will be taking care of those areas. The other area which I would like to touch upon is that the example has been given that the rural set-up will be upgraded with the earthquake. We saw that one of the stations to be newly built cost around more than $1.5 million and a similar kind of set-up in Australia costs about $500000. So there is a huge gap. I know the Minister mentioned that she will look into this issue and then report back to us. Another area which I would like to touch upon is gambling. We have seen that Skycity has teamed up with a company with a Mediterranean base to set up online gambling. The people of New Zealand can access those online gaming machines and millions of dollars will be going offshore. We know that it is a big problem and every Government has been focusing to reduce the harm from gambling. But this money when it goes overseas there is no benefit for the local community whereas the money spent on the class 4 machines—which normally are known as pokies—is reinvested in the local communities. But this money will be going offshore and it will be profit for those companies. That issue was raised with the Minister also. Another area which I would like to touch upon is the funding for the Language Line which is very important to the migrant community because—particularly with seniors—sometimes they are not able to speak English very fluently but with the help of Language Line they are able to communicate with the different departments of the Government. But the funding for this is also a challenge and I hope that the Minister in the future will get some money on this. Lastly I would like to touch upon the racing industry where the Minister for Racing mentioned that he will be putting up $1 million which will be matched by the industry for the contestable fund.