White HelenHELEN WHITE (Labour): Kia ora. I'd like to start today my speech just by a little rebuttal there for Penny Simmonds. On Friday I took a caucus tour through a whole lot of really amazing place in Auckland and one of them was the Media Design School. It's an absolutely wonderful university-type arrangement—so it's after you have finished school you go in and you actually do all sorts of things that are associated with gaming and they're associated with creative production—Hon Louise Upston: It's a private training establishment (PTE). Remind your colleagues because they hate PTEs.HELEN WHITE: —and I'd actually like to finish my speech. In that tour I was really impressed with the people who were teaching there. I was impressed by their enthusiasm but I was mostly impressed by the students. They were learning new things they were getting good jobs and they were very very delighted to see a whole lot of Labour MPs listening and taking notes. They had a really interesting combination of objectives. Yes they were profit-making but they also absolutely stood by a social justice principle so they were taking people who wouldn't have necessarily been to a university and they were turning them into very creative happy high-end learners and earners and it was a wonderful thing to see. So thank you to the Media Design School for hosting us.I wanted to talk today just about transport in Auckland Central because we really have seen a whole lot of delivery and change in that area and we're in the midst of it. I wanted to talk about one other place where we visited on that tour which was a woman called Kirsten Corson is running something called Zilch. Zilch is a car sharing fleet so it has cars you can go—they're all electric—you can go and hire them you can subscribe to them.They also provide a service where—it's another enterprise but it's connected and it's called Carbn Asset Management. They'll go and they'll look at your fleet and they'll decide what kind of cars you need and when you use them they'll make sure people are sharing those cars. That is a way of actually maximising the use of an asset but it's also incredibly good for congestion and it's good for consumers because they're not actually shelling out a whole lot of money. They've also got a business that finances electric car fleets. All of those things are things that this Government supports. Two of those enterprises the Government has put in $5.8 million into supporting and they're all absolutely connected by a spirit of activism in the area of really environmental change. I was absolutely impressed with her as were my colleagues and to see somebody doing something like this and absolutely being supported by the Government and nurtured by the Government is a wonderful thing. My bouquets go out to her for doing something so brave and so innovative that will transform the streets of Auckland. I also want to talk just briefly about the City Rail Link because this is something that is actually going to be—it's very hard earned in Auckland we've got a lot of traffic cones a lot of inconvenient a lot of heartbreak while it's being done—but at the end of it we are going to have an absolutely amazing city. We're going to have a subway and it's going to connect our rail and it's going to mean that a lot more people can come into the city it's going to extend the range of where people can live and it is going to absolutely transform our city. I'm hoping that by the time it happens we will be in a world of electric buses electric ferries and we'll be in a world where we have a pedestrianised Auckland Central where people can actually live and they can work and they can take their kids to school by foot. That's what I want to see. I want to see an Auckland Central where we can scooter we can bike and we can walk and we can do so in an environment which isn't actually full of pollution. Because one of the other effects that we've got the kind of structure we've had for so long is that we have a city that actually has really poor air quality and people die of it. I just really want to see this become a much healthier environment. This Government has supported that plan. So have the council and again applause to the council. The master plan is a really good plan. I urge people to look at it and I urge people to support it even through the times when it's quite difficult to live with. So thank you for the opportunity to speak in this debate.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.