Young Jonathan: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeYoung Jonathan: General Debate[Sitting date: 02 July 2014. Volume:700;Page:19154. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONATHAN YOUNG (National - New Plymouth):Well it is good news for the regions from this Government. I have to say that there is only one person who is unhappy in Taranaki—maybe two—and that is the Labour MP for Rongotai. The Labour members come out and say “This is what we need. This is what we want. This is what the people of Taranaki deserve.” And when we get it they are very sad. I cannot believe it. It is not about the people; it is about them. That is what it tells me. This Government over nearly 6 years has seen the GDP of Taranaki grow by nearly 50 percent. That has got a lot to do with our business-facing policies it has got a lot to do with the encouragement we have given and it has got a lot to do with the fact that this Government sees that building infrastructure is important.In just a number of days or a week or two coming up we are going to be starting a roading project in New Plymouth. Let me tell you that when people came to me and knocked on my door person after person week after week asking what was going to happen about the Waiwhakaiho project and the bridge I said that New Plymouth had had a Labour Party MP for 15 years. I asked what had happened during that period of time—absolutely nothing. They brought to me newspaper clippings that said that this bridge is an issue going back to 1969. Is that not amazing? Is it not unbelievable that a Government in that period of time which had surplus after surplus after surplus neglected infrastructure? Not only did it neglect infrastructure but we know there are issues around economic growth development and also road safety.This Government has been working hard and we have a region that is being rewarded for its hard work and contribution to the New Zealand economy. That is what a lot of people say in my region: “Here we are producing 3.9 percent of the nation’s GDP from 2.4 percent of the people. We work hard and we bring great benefits.” That is true. This Government has been very very supportive of Taranaki.Just last week as the Minister of Health Tony Ryall announced today we opened the brand-new Taranaki Base Hospital servicing 110000 people from the north to the south and from the east to the west. It is a great hospital that does a great job in supporting and bringing excellent state-of-the-art modern health care.We have a new police station in New Plymouth which the Minister of Police Anne Tolley came and opened last year. It is a fantastic police station. I went there on the open day two weekends ago and there I was greeted at the entrance by the area commander as he was greeting every person. Hundreds and hundreds if not a thousand people maybe even more went through that day. I asked all of the policemen and women how it worked and whether this space worked. They said that they loved it that it was absolutely fantastic and that they have a relationship with corrections. It is the first time I think Minister that that has happened here in New Zealand. They said that this relationship with corrections is working fantastically. They have a really great relationship and it is working well. So what we are seeing is excellent men and women who are protecting our community and enabling people as they go through the corrections system to come back into our city and find employment and a place where they can be reintegrated.New Plymouth and Taranaki are doing very well. I am very pleased to stand here after being the local MP for 6 years and say that we continue to have good news in our region. I am sure that my colleague the Hon Chester Borrows will talk about what is happening down in his part of this fantastic province.One of the great announcements we had last weekend was about the work being done on Mount Messenger and the Awakino corridor—the gorge there. Some people say that what we should have is a tunnel straight through that area. I asked a colleague of mine a friend who does tunnelling and they said that that would be the biggest roading project in the country—