Young JonathanJONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth): Thank you Mr Temporary Speaker. Can I just acknowledge the previous speaker the Hon Aupito William Sio and I think it's a matter of history of which I think the Minister is fully aware that this idea around an infrastructure commission has stretched over not just the thinking of this Government but also the thinking of the prior Government. In fact you know Policy 2017 talks about this infrastructure commission being needed because of the long-term significant investment that probably not one region can ever afford not one particular sector can afford but it needs to be a New Zealand Inc." concept and work programme and we certainly need to have the people who understand the issues the challenges the supply chains the procurement very much involved in bringing recommendations and advice to the Government of the day. Can I just encourage the previous speaker not to be so harsh on the former Labour Government for nine years. When he referred to nine years of mismanagement and the next Government coming in to have to fix it up he should not have been so harsh on Helen Clark. In fact he did refer to the Minister securing $42 billion worth of infrastructure funding and the Minister said "Yes over 10 years." whereas the previous policy of Bill English the infrastructure Minister at that point in time was $32 billion over four years. So there was not in a sense a deficit in his term his framework because there was significant investment planned by the previous National Government—in fact a 40 percent increase on the prior four years. So look we understand that in a modern society a modern economy infrastructure is the backbone of how everything works whether that's ports roads airports—the big big items—or whether it's hospitals or all the things that people who live in a successful country and economy can rightfully expect. But it's incredibly important when we make this long-term planning that we do it in order to streamline processes and procurement; that we ensure that we have the human capital the skilled people the construction entities that can continue to support infrastructure replenishment and rebuild and new projects for the betterment of New Zealand's community and our society. You know some of these projects are literally billions of dollars—certainly hundreds of millions of dollars and many of them tens of millions of dollars—but what we need to ensure is that we don't have a workforce that's here today and gone tomorrow. We need to connect them sequentially so we can not only do it sequentially in order to manage workforce but also the economics around this. You know our spokesperson for infrastructure the Hon Judith Collins referred to projects in the past which were termed Think Big. Back in the day you know there was a lot of enthusiasm and people probably thought that it would drive the country broke but they have been very important projects very important projects in time—decadal projects that have had life and input and economic value for decades and decades to come and certainly cost hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the complexity that this commission will address. And you know we don't need novices. We need people who are well-experienced who are connected also in the Australasian even global context as well so that we get the best value for taxpayer money when the money comes from taxpayers. We certainly believe that there is an opportunity for public-private partnerships around some of these infrastructure projects and let's hope the commission get an opportunity to look at that as well. I'm very pleased to support this bill as we are at the first reading and we trust that the select committee will do a thorough job on this because this is for the benefit and the growth and the development of New Zealand and all that we need. Thank you very much."