Young Jonathan: Supplementary Estimates — Imprest Supply DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeYoung Jonathan: Supplementary Estimates — Imprest Supply Debate[Sitting date: 26 June 2013. Volume:691;Page:11313. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Supplementary EstimatesJONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth):What rubbish! What rubbish we hear about Labour’s energy policies. In the last 4 years of that Government over there power went up 27.9 percent and in our first 4 years it was 13.6 percent and we did a multibillion-dollar infrastructure upgrade in that period of time. When I asked the previous speaker Iain Lees-Galloway where the 5000 jobs are going to come from he had nothing to say. I think New Zealanders need to hear those sorts of speeches and the emptiness of them and hear these people across the way who say that they can do so much. Yet when you look at it when you look under the cover there is nothing there to show.This Budget is a Budget that will continue to take New Zealand forward. We know that—we know that. We know that this Government is very proactive. We are seeing economic activity increase. We are seeing jobs increase. We are seeing that New Zealanders have the best cost of living situation in years and years and years—the lowest interest rates in decades. All Opposition members can do is hue and cry about what they are going to do and we know that this is just puffery. It is empty. There is nothing that they can say that is going to make substantial improvements.I want to talk just very briefly about communications. We know that this Government is prioritising the ultra-fast broadband build and we know that we are going to see some significant improvements in our economy because of it. The World Bank analysis published in 2009 “suggests that investment in Broadband infrastructure has a higher flow-through to nationwide productivity than ...” any other area of electronic communication. What it says is: “Across a range of countries this analysis shows a 10-percentage point increase in telecommunications ... via Broadband would be expected to increase economic growth by between 1.2 and 1.4 percent.” So we know that we are living in an age—[Interruption ] Oh listen to them. Come on come on come on Trevor. Listen to them. We know that we live in this age where electronic communication via ultra-fast broadband is going to make the difference that we have New Zealand companies that can transact business across the globe and we can see the ingenuity and innovation of this place having a great effect for our companies.I have to say that New Plymouth was one of the first places—and the Hon Harry Duynhoven who is sitting up there will acknowledge; good to see you sir—where ultra-fast broadband was rolled out so that is fantastic. It is fantastic to see a Government supporting our city.We know that we are seeing some great advances in this in education and in health. I am glad Opposition members have woken up. It is going to be dinner time soon. They can have their dinner then go back to sleep. We are going to see a fantastic increase in the ability of people in the health sector to access specialist care via ultra-fast broadband. We know that those places that are way away from some of—Hon Member: What a rambling mess—we’re talking about the member.JONATHAN YOUNG: Ha! Those opportunities are going to be enhanced in a major way. It is great to see. I think that just in closing in September last year we had the Australian broadband committee come and visit. The Commerce Committee which I chair hosted it. The committee came to look at what we were doing and members commented that they felt that we had a really good way of putting it together which was a public-private partnership. We know from all of that that we are seeing that New Zealand is ahead of the game compared with our Australian compatriots.Their original cost was estimated to be around about $33 billion. Some analysts are now projecting that it is going to cost around $94 billion where we have capped our Government roll-out costs at $1.35 billion. We are ahead in so many ways. We are going to see some tremendous advances. We are beginning to see it already as schools hospitals businesses and private homes are connected to this ultra-fast broadband. It is making the difference in so many different ways and this Government is doing it.