Doocey Matt: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDoocey Matt: General Debate[Sitting date: 22 July 2015. Volume:707;Page:5210. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): The Labour Party wants to talk about housing. Explain this to me. The annual house price percentage in New Zealand is 7.7 percent. In Canterbury we have 5.2 percent and in my electorate we have 3.5 percent. It is 7.7 percent for New Zealand and 3.5 percent in the “Waimak”. The Waimakariri electorate is the third-fastest growing by population. The reason why is that we have freed up land and we have increased supply and that has equalled demand. I think the people of New Zealand will be happy to know that we will not be making housing policy based on people’s surnames. It is great to live in a country that has strong economic growth. It is great to live in a country that has a strong economy. It is great to live in a country that has strong economic management.When we look at job creation in 2011 we forecasted 171000 new jobs. I am happy to say we are on track to create 193000 new jobs. That is 23000 extra jobs. We are forecasting that by 2019 there will be another 150000 new jobs. It is great. The reasons why are the strong economy strong economic growth and strong economic management. But the reason we do this is for the well-being of our people. We know we are promoting well-being. In the New Zealand General Social Survey the biggest social survey outside the 5-yearly census 83 percent of people rated themselves as being highly satisfied with their lives and 87 percent of people rated their sense of purpose as high. If we look at a region like Canterbury with the CERA Wellbeing Survey 77 percent of people rated their lives as good or very good. That is an extra 20 percent increase on last year.We know that that is because we have a strong economy strong economic growth and strong economic management. We know that under Budget 2015 we were able to give low-income earners and the most vulnerable $12 to $25 more a week. That is because we care. We listen to people and we work hard for them. We are the working people’s party. We are the workers’ party. New Zealand First members did not even vote to give the most vulnerable $12 to $25 more a week. They are not putting New Zealand first; they are putting their party first.Last week I visited North Canterbury with my colleagues Stuart Smith the MP for Kaikōura and Jacqui Dean the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Tourism. We were in North Canterbury because Stuart Smith and I as the local MPs are working hard for North Canterbury. We were focusing on tourism. We know that last year we had 3 million tourists in New Zealand—an extra 7 percent—and by 2021 we will have increased expenditure on tourism by 48 percent. We are expecting tourism to bring in $11 billion. We know that in Waimakariri tourism has grown by 7 percent. We visited the Waimak Alpine Jet. It was great to see their ecotourism and their adventure-based tourism using a great environmental resource like the “Waimak” to show international tourists how beautiful this region is.We also visited the Waipara region the wine region. It was great to hear about the vineyards and the wine tourism. We know wine exports from New Zealand are going gangbusters as well. It was great to see tourism being promoted in North Canterbury by the local vineyards. But the gem of the visit was a visit to a small organisation called Farm to Farm Agricultural Tours which delivers international inbound and outbound farm tourism based in Rangiora. It just goes to show the importance of our farming community across all sectors in New Zealand.We have a strong economy strong economic growth and strong economic management which are promoting the well-being of our people. Thank you.