Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South): This is a useless and incompetent Government and it would be comical if it wasn't so depressing for the future of New Zealand and it just beggars belief that the police Minister can stand there and say how proud he is of the Government and how the Ministers are out there every day defending the Government and putting forward their case. Ministers can't even be bothered to turn up to the meetings and front up to farmers and explain to them why they are going to be subject to such onerous and stringent requirements when it comes to fresh water.But I want to talk about transport which is a train wreck under this Government. At a time when the Prime Minister's own hand-picked business advisory council says we're at infrastructure crisis point at a time when the Reserve Bank Governor is begging the Government all but to get spades in the ground and get on with much-needed infrastructure projects there is not a single major infrastructure or roading project happening around the country and nor are they likely to start. Budget 2019 cut $3 billion from infrastructure spending compared to the numbers just six months before and we have a score of re-evaluated" which is code for cancelled or delayed transport projects around the country.The reason for this is that $5.5 billion has been cut from the State highway budget. What that means is the roading projects around the country some of them which are shovel-ready ready to go are simply not happening—the Melling Interchange in my electorate of Hutt South. But also there is the Tauranga Northern Link that we had a discussion about in question time this afternoon a project that is ready to go on one of the most dangerous sections of State highway in the country and it will help fuel the growth out to Omokoroa in Tauranga one of the most fastest-growing regions of the country. That road is a death trap and the people there are crying out for it to be built but this Government has an ideological obsession against roads. Phil Twyford the transport Minister says that the Government has over-invested in roads and motorways for decades. That's what he says. Julie Anne Genter the associate transport Minister—the Minister who stopped the second Mt Vic tunnel—she talks about car fascists. This Government has an ideological aversion to building new roads and unlocking the infrastructure growth that New Zealand needs.Grant Robertson got asked in Parliament if he could name a single project. What did he say? He said the Awakino Gorge to Mount Messenger; very important project guess when that was started? May 2017 by transport Minister Simon Bridges. What else did he say? He said there's the Dome Valley project. When did that start? May 2017 by transport Minister Simon Bridges. What else did he say? The Kaeō Bridge and loop road project; I'll let you in on a little secret I think you know what's coming—started by transport Minister Simon Bridges in May 2015. Papakura to Bombay—started by transport Minister Simon Bridges. What else did he name? The Ōpōnoni project. OK that's an important project? It's $3.2 million and it's a seawall; I'd hardly describe that as a major project. What was the other one he named? Waipapa. Well guess what that is? It's a roundabout; that is not a major project. So even when he's asked on notice—he was asked the day before. He was asked one day and he couldn't name any. He was asked to come up the next day—actually he had time to prepare 24 hours to name some major projects. Grant Robertson could not name a single major project because there aren't any; there simply aren't any starting.Where's the money going? Well that's a very good question. The money's going—so $5.5 billion has been cut from State highways and the money is going into light rail.Hon Julie Anne Genter: You're absolutely wrong. CHRIS BISHOP: The money's going—well Julie Anne Genter the associate transport Minister is saying that's not true. I've just literally gone through the Government policy statement and the National Land Transport Programme that the Government has put out there into the public domain and it's very clear where the money goes. The State highway budget goes down and as you go forward into the out-years the light rail budget goes up. But of course light rail's not happening. Jacinda Ardern said we'd have it to Mount Roskill by 2021 but we're waiting in the early part of next year for the business case. We're waiting for the assessment by the Cabinet of the New Zealand Transport Agency bid and the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission bid which is the New Zealand super fund. So the idea that we're going to have light rail to Mount Roskill is I've got to say a total fantasy. Meanwhile all of this money is—Hon Julie Anne Genter: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I seek leave to table graphs that show that this Government in this national land transport—SPEAKER: Order! No the member knows she's not allowed to break up a member's speech like that. She is being disorderly. She will withdraw and apologise.Hon Julie Anne Genter: I withdraw and apologise.CHRIS BISHOP: I know that member's very upset about the second Mt Victoria tunnel that's been—SPEAKER: Order! Just move on.CHRIS BISHOP: In my last remaining remarks before I was interrupted—I'll just say about light rail: it's not happening. The idea that we're going to get light rail to Mount Roskill which was promised by the Government by 2021 is a fantasy. The money that is going into light rail or that's sitting in the kitty that could be spent on light rail should be going back into those State highway projects.SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."