Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): That was a speech from one of the more moderate members of the Labour Party that does value his economic credentials and thinks that he is of moderate economic persuasion for a left-wing socialist party. Now he did tell us that at the moment the Labour Party is investing in our future. They're not investing in our future. The Labour Party is spending hand over fist on social spending to keep New Zealanders in some kind of utopia so they don't have to worry about the election campaign. That's what the Labour Party is doing. They're not investing in our future. They're not borrowing to build infrastructure. They're not borrowing to make the country go faster in the future. They're only borrowing to save themselves in six weeks' time. That's all it's about. So it's pretty rich for that member to come to this House and then talk about the road toll as some failure to spend money. He has got no idea. In regard to tourism he said we can't save everything. He's quite happy for some people to go to the morgue. He's the moderate one in that party. Imagine if we let the madness in the second row have a go what they would come up with and we don't even want to know what the first row would think.So it is implorable on this House to consider a very special thing that is happening in New Zealand at the moment and that is the Labour Green New Zealand First parties are saying the right things around our primary industries. They're actually saying they believe in them. They have actually been booting them for years and now saying Oh no we need you. We love you. We want you to contribute to the future of New Zealand going forward." Should we believe that? Should we take that? Should we understand that they genuinely think that? Well I think we have to take them at their word because we know that the primary sector is the future of New Zealand. We know that they will deliver the jobs they will deliver the export earnings and they will deliver the future for this country. That party can never understand that because they don't believe in freedom of enterprise they don't believe in aspiration they don't believe in hard work and they don't believe in investing your money and making something out of it. They believe it's all dictated from a group of people in Wellington that are some kind of academic elite that can determine the future of a country and the COVID crisis is a perfect opportunity for that academic elite to show their credentials. That's what the Labour Party stands for.Now I believe in the agriculture and horticulture sector. I know they will deliver and we will have to take them at their word that that is what they believe in. But if we take them at their word let's look at the document that they put out a month ago around the future of the primary sector. They want to double the export earnings of the primary sector by $44 billion. "We're going to double the export earnings."—and that's the first category.The second category is that they're going to restrict the primary sector predominantly the dairy industry to emissions targets which would cost the New Zealand dairy industry $5 billion to $12 billion. So on the first side there's a $44 billion increase in primary sector right? Of that we asked the Minister last week and he said $4 billion of that comes from the dairy industry which is currently 40 percent of our exports. So we're going to get $4 billion in through growth be from organics and regenerative agriculture. Now no offence to those forms of agriculture—I'm an organic dairy farmer so you know I understand what that means—but there is no price point for regenerative agriculture in the dairy industry at the moment. We do not get paid a premium for it. So how they are going to get that increase in production from something that is not even paid for is a virtual impossibility at this stage.But then their second criteria is that they will whack on $5 billion to $12 billion of costs on that very sector and then they're still going to have a $4 billion increase from that. How does that work? The Minister couldn't answer it. The Minister's got no calculation. He just thinks it's going to happen. It's like what we've seen out of that party for the last three years: all these glorious promises these glorious ambitions of what can happen and no delivery. And the primary sector is the next one to face that.Well let's look at the horticulture sector. That's an even bigger example of what you're talking about. Now the horticulture sector does have ambitious growth plans you know very ambitious growth plans of $6 billion to getting to that $10 billion or $20 billion that they can get to in the next decade.Dan Bidois: How are we going to get there?Hon DAVID BENNETT: Those plans—and exactly. As my colleague says how would you get there? Well you can't grow fruit and veges if you don't have water. You just can't go find a farm and plant it in kiwifruit and think it just happens. You need water for fruit and veges. It's that simple. And what did they do? They cut all the water storage programmes out when they got in. The only water storage programmes we've got now are a couple little projects we've got in the last six months to try and placate the residents in Auckland—an election campaign. They have got no intention of doing anything decent on water storage.So how do we get this glorious goal for the horticultural sector when there's no water? Let's look at the second big issue in the horticulture sector and that's labour. We need people that are going to pick that fruit and we're going to need people that are going to do the work on those farms and prune those vines.Michael Wood: I'm looking at some people who are going to need some work later this year.Hon DAVID BENNETT: That member over there—he's a funny guy isn't he? Well he's never picked a fruit in his life. He's never picked a vine. He's sat in that chair while other people have gone out there and done the work. And that member is a true reflection of the Labour Party: self-entitled comes here and thinks he can go and tell people what to do. Become a real New Zealand manufacturer or income earner that actually did anything.Michael Wood: As nasty as it is ignorant.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Oh nasty? But what was his comment before? It was a great comment wasn't it? But that is the love of being a liberal Labour Party member because you can throw stones and then you can hide behind this veneer afterwards that you are better than that. I know. You're such an upstanding member of the community.But if we look at that plan what are they going to do around labour supply? I reckon that the Labour Party will determine that they want to stop people coming into this country to unionise the workforces of New Zealand. That is their grand plan. That is what their intention always has been. They don't want contracted labour; they want unionised labour all the way. And they will use COVID as an excuse to go towards unionised labour on our primary sector. That will destroy the efficiency of our primary sector. That is the number one thing that we can see will come out of that plan because they are going to stop that labour supply.But actually it gets worse because our primary producers have very high asset values and very low incomes relative to their asset values. The biggest risk to our primary producers is the Labour Green Party and New Zealand First that want to tax the guts out of those people. The Greens were silly enough to go out there and tell us their tax policy give us some numbers. There's income tax rates and an asset tax. Where's the capital gains tax that the Green Party's talked about for decades? Gone because they know the Prime Minister won't agree to it. They know the Prime Minister will agree to an asset tax. If we take an average dairy farm in the Waikato—say $8 million. You take off the $2 million for the house and all those exemptions $6 million at the 2 percent that the Green Party is talking about—that wipes out that dairy farm. It wipes it out—wipes it out.The Labour Party tax policy—I can write it now for you. And if anybody wants to have a look just have a look in a few weeks' time when their tax policy comes out. It will talk about equity and fairness. We will have a tax policy based on equity. We want a fair and reasonable tax policy. We'll give no numbers will not talk about the asset tax that they intend to bring in will not talk about the increase in income tax that they intend to bring in. Mark my words: anybody that votes for that side of the House and is in business will pay the price next year. Between September and Christmas they will have passed the biggest tax programme in New Zealand's history because they're borrowing only for social spending; they're not borrowing to invest in the country going forward. And that comes back to our fundamental starting point of the difference between these two political parties.The National Party will invest in New Zealand's infrastructure will invest on the way forward. On that side of the House it will all be about spending to the election and then taxing the guts out of the productive sector. And New Zealand farmers will end up paying an asset tax which will destroy the productivity of our most competitive—[Time expired]"