McClay Todd: Adjournment — Sittings of the House 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
McClay Todd: Adjournment — Sittings of the House 
[Sitting date: 12 December 2012. Volume:686;Page:7490. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua) 
: 
 Um um um. Ah ah ah. Um um um. Anybody who is listening to this on the radio at the moment probably thinks the Leader of the Opposition David Shearer is on his feet speaking again. This is the year that he has limped from one um and one ah to another all the way through the whole year. 
Do you remember at the beginning of the year when they were about to have their caucus meeting not far from Taupo? He stood beside a dairy farm and he ummed and ahhed and said that no longer would these farms be able to be sold to foreigners. Then when he was asked about the details he ummed and he ahhed some more and of course we do not see a bill in his name before this House that is going to deal with this issue. 
Just a very short time ago when he was asked whether or not he had the full support of his caucus I thought he was counting them on the ums and the ahs because there were so many when he was put in front of the television cameras. But what we do know is now absolutely he does have them all. Another um and another ah there. He came forward with the big strategy to turn round the wayward direction of the Labour Party at its conference this year. What happened when he was asked about how the houses would come about? All we got for those poor New Zealanders who want a house was more ums and more ahs. 
Can I say this has been a good year for the Government because the Government is focused on what is important for New Zealanders and what the really important things are that we must do for this country. This is a year when a hard-working Government has done more and achieved more than any year that many in this House can remember. Do you know what this year is? This is the year of  
The 
Hobbit 
. The Green Party has been here almost every year saying to us in this House that it is in favour of labelling. Well that is a film that is going round the world—released in cinemas this week—that has a label on it that says “Made in New Zealand”. This is the year of  
The Hobbit 
. Thank goodness that Gerry Brownlee and John Key secured that film and future films for New Zealand. Thank goodness they secured 3000 jobs for New Zealand and work for 3000 businesses. Members opposite in the Labour Party laugh and scoff because they wanted this to be the year of the 
Hobbit-haters. They did not want the film to have “Made in New Zealand” on it. They did not want that film to be made here. They wanted to back their union mates and Australian unions so 3000 New Zealanders would not have jobs and 3000 businesses would not have work to do on this important industry. I say again thank goodness for John Key and Gerry Brownlee and the work they did for everyday New Zealanders who are proud that film has been made here. 
What has this Government done this year in an extremely hard-working year? We heard from the Prime Minister earlier that the deficit has been halved over what it was last year and we are on track back to surplus something that would not have happened under a Green-Labour coalition Government if it was on this side of the House this year. We have got the lowest interest rates in New Zealand for 50 years. Again members opposite scoff and laugh but mums and dads out there who are paying mortgages on houses—that actually are real houses not the 100000 those members are pretending they will magic up from thin air—are glad about this because of the economic management of Bill English as the Minister of Finance. 
Since we have been here in this Parliament there have been 60000 new jobs. Some of those jobs have come with Australian companies to New Zealand. The Opposition the Labour Party stood up in New Zealand and said that they are the wrong types of jobs and they do not pay enough. Well here is the thing: if you look around the world a job is a job and it is a good job. This Government backs New Zealanders and backs those jobs. We are glad that Australian companies have brought jobs here because they have confidence in the direction the Government is going in. 
I turn to roads around New Zealand and infrastructure. I was horrified to hear a member of the Opposition who is in the Waikato area—I think in your electorate Mr Assistant Speaker Tisch—saying that she was against a very important road in the Bay of Plenty the Te Puke bypass which goes from my electorate through Tony Ryall’s electorate to the Port of Tauranga in Simon Bridges’ electorate. That is what— 
Hon Simon Bridges 
: What’s it called? 
TODD McCLAY 
: They say it is the Te Puke bypass. That is what they are saying. They do not back important roads anywhere in New Zealand. They do not back important roads in the Bay of Plenty that will add productivity and jobs to our local economy. 
In crime there has been a 5.9 percent drop in crime rates in New Zealand. That is a fantastic job on the part of our Ministers and our police. 
In the moment the minute I have got left I want to thank the staff of the Finance and Expenditure Committee which I get to chair. I want to thank the staff of Parliament. I want to thank the members of the committee. I want to thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and to Lockwood Smith I wish him the very best for a successful holiday period and 2013. I will end here Mr Assistant Speaker. A little bit of advice— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Sorry to interrupt the member his time has expired.