Upston Louise: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeUpston Louise: General Debate[Sitting date: 05 March 2014. Volume:696;Page:16340. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō): In the months ahead the New Zealand public get to see two teams lining up toe to toe. They will see the A-Team clearly led by a very strong confident optimistic positive Prime Minister John Key. We are delivering for hard-working New Zealanders every day a stronger economy more jobs higher wages safer streets and communities higher levels of achievement in education and of course better access to health care. And then we have the B-Team—or should we say the C-Team? Actually that is probably a bit generous. I think it is the D-Team—D for David. Or is it “Tricky David”? Or is it “Clumsy Cunliffe”? Or is it “Which-way-is-up Day” today? Because New Zealanders right now—actually do not even worry about New Zealanders because the members of his own caucus do not know which way he is heading. They do not know what he stands for and therefore they do not know what they stand for.In terms of talking about standing it is really interesting to see that we have seats in Timaru—for example the seat of Rangitata. Only a few months ago David Shearer was saying that Labour was clearly going to retake the provincial seat of Rangitata. Well actually you cannot even get a candidate so in terms of trying to get members on your team you are obviously struggling—so good luck with that. At the end of the day they have to be able to hold the ball and not drop the ball and not drop it more than twice in one day.It is really interesting if you talk to and listen to constituents on the street. [Interruption] Do not mind me Mr Robertson—just have a little tête-à-tête across the House. Hard-working New Zealanders have got things that they are interested in hearing about. One of them is jobs. We talk a lot in the House about jobs and I want to talk about some of the things that this Government is doing in provincial New Zealand. Dream on—actually we should add to David Cunliffe’s title “Dream Chaser” or todayit was the “Chief Fantasy Officer” in terms of some of the things that he is dreaming up.In hard-working rural and provincial New Zealand in a seat like Taupō what counts is jobs and the things that this Government is doing to create jobs. It is attracting major international events and keeping them in provincial New Zealand like the Ironman New Zealand competition which celebrated its 30th anniversary through the Major Events Development Fund which supports these sorts of activities. There has been an $8 million extension to the Cycleway Fund which helps to maintain significant infrastructure in places like Tokoroa Pūtāruru and Tīrau where jobs are created as a result of the Waikato River Trail. The fact is that there are tourists and visitors who come into that area who have never come before. If you look at the new soon-to-be-opened Great Lake Trail in Taupō—Sue Moroney: How many jobs?Hon Annette King: How many jobs do you get from an Ironman?LOUISE UPSTON: —that is another thing that brings visitors into our towns and creates jobs. You are asking about jobs. The number of jobs that came from people who were previously unemployed in the south Waikato who got jobs because of the Waikato River Trail is a record that I am proud of. I am proud of people who come off unemployment benefits and go into work. That is what this Government is doing and it is delivering on it every day.Just last week I was in the electorate with Minister Paula Bennett and we were in one of the local Work and Income offices talking about one of the challenges that they are hearing. Do you know what that challenge is? It is that organisations are saying that they do not have the same number of volunteers they once had because some of the people who were volunteering before now have jobs. They have got jobs they need to turn up to. So I think that is a good problem that we have as a country. There is silence from the other side now because they do not like the fact that we are talking about jobs and that we are talking about getting people off benefits and into work. Whatever job it is we think that it is important. This side of the House values work. We think it is important that we are getting people off benefits and into work. I for one am proud.Next month at the velodrome the home of cycling—in Cambridge not in Hamilton as was reported by one of the daily newspapers—we will welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Not only is it for high-performance sport which this Government is funding a large number of the people who will use that facility are the community members who are learning to ride. It backs up another initiative that this hard-working Government is delivering instead of the dreamers on the other side.