Bayly Andrew: Debate on Prime Minister’s StatementText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBayly Andrew: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement[Sitting date: 01 March 2016. Volume:711;Page:9263. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ANDREW BAYLY (National—Hunua): I was going to talk about a number of things tonight but I just thought I might respond to some of the speeches particularly the last two that we have had from Rino Tirikatene and David Shearer. They followed an excellent speech by my colleague the Hon Maggie Barry who was talking about what we are doing in the area of conservation and then I heard the two speakers talking about the lack of birds up in Northland. Well I would just like to invite both those speakers to come and visit me in Hunua because we have got a wonderful programme around the kokako in the Hunua Range.In 1974 there was only one breeding pair left in New Zealand but thanks to the good efforts of the Auckland Council and also the Department of Conservation we now have 66 breeding pairs in the Hunua Range. This is a wonderful achievement in bringing back a bird from the brink of extinction into something that is viable and what is more I am raising $10000 to go towards that programme. I would like to challenge those two former speakers to put up some money and come and help our programme and come and join in and see how these birds live in our wonderful part of this country.I heard a couple of other things mentioned. I heard a little debate about superannuation. I just wish these speakers would actually spend 5 minutes looking at some facts and figures. I heard Mr Shearer saying that our superannuation is dreadful and it is out of control. Well actually the facts are that currently we pay 5 percent of our total Government spend on superannuation every year. When you compare that with most OECD countries we are well below the average. Most are about 9 percent and up to about 15 percent. Even stretching it forward many many years up to 2050 we will ultimately hit about 8 percent of our total spend. Just to put that in context over the last 8 years through the good efforts of our Minister of Finance we have reduced Government spend by near on 4 percent. When you are spending nearly $70 billion a year that works out to be roughly about $9 billion to $10 billion of savings a year. That alone is going to offset a lot of that increased cost.But what we are also doing is growing an economy and reducing debt. So even now our debt is at 27 percent of GDP which will be half of Australia’s by 2020 and England and the EU will be four times ours. The US will be five times ours by 2020. We will have modest debt. That is all about preparing ourselves so we can meet these future commitments.Finally housing—I heard that magic word about housing. Again I invite the members to come to Hunua. Come to Hunua because 12000 sections are going to come to market over the next 5 years—12000. And I heard someone saying we need 10000. Come to my wonderful electorate and you will see it. The issue we have got is we need to continue to invest in infrastructure and that is what we are doing—$4.25 billion into roading into Auckland alone over the next 3 years and all those other good things like schools that our new mayor will be able to come and open over the next few years. I am looking forward to doing it. Thank you.