SpeechTERISA NGOBI (Labour—Ōtaki): Thank you Mr Speaker. And there are so many great initiatives—as the member of Parliament for the Ōtaki electorate—that I could speak about today but today I'm going to use my time to talk about infrastructure; the amazing amount of investment that this Labour Government has put into the infrastructure in the Ōtaki electorate—I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get through it in just five minutes; that's how much there is. I have lived in the Ōtaki electorate for over 40 years so I know what it looks like to travel to Wellington and back every day. I used to get stuck in the traffic jams but no more because we managed to finish TG—or what we now call Transmission Gully. And I know Mr Speaker you were also there at the opening. A great piece of infrastructure beautiful work and I'm hearing all the time of people being able to get home a little bit earlier and spend that time with their family. I hear from people outside of our electorate saying Hey we can go and visit mum and dad or go and visit the Kāpiti beach or Paraparaumu Beach because it's just not too far down the road now. There's not that big long waiting queue." So a fantastic piece of infrastructure thanks to this Labour Government.But that's not all; wait there's more. So what this Government's also done is made sure that we invested in PP2Ō—or Peka Peka to Ōtaki. Again having travelled that road and sometimes that's where the bottleneck is we've managed to build another piece of fantastic infrastructure and again you shave off about another 10 minutes. So we've got TG saving some time PP2Ō saving some time you'd think that's enough surely to God; no but wait there's more.Not only have we done TG not only have we done PP2Ō but now we've also made sure that we've committed to Ō2NL—or Ōtaki to north of Levin. Now I know the Opposition quite often say "Oh but they've cancelled it so many times." That's not quite true. Or they'll say "Oh is it really going to happen?" Yes it is. So we are building Ō2NL we're building Ōtaki to Levin. We've already started purchasing 60 percent of the land. It's fantastic.Andrew Bayly: When is it going to happen?TERISA NGOBI: Oh wait till you see it Mr Bayly. You're going to have a great time coming through because it'll shave off even more time. I've lived there all my life 40-odd years and I can tell you the excitement in the Ōtaki electorate especially in the Horowhenua part when we heard that this Government this Labour Government had committed to paying for—and we've committed the budget $1.5 billion you heard the Minister yesterday—and made sure that we are committed to making sure we build Transmission Gully—sorry sorry Ō2NL; oh sorry PP2Ō—yes all of them. But also wait there's more. Yes the most exciting news: this Government's just announced under our amazing Minister of Transport Michael Wood that we are getting a train. That's right—that's right. The Ōtaki electorate again having lived there for 40-odd years we know that the last people to get the train to Waikanae was a Labour Government. Darren Hughes was his name—fantastic guy. I went to church with him and school—amazing MP. But guess what! We are now going to be able to extend that from Waikanae to Ōtaki to Levin and right through to the equally beautiful Palmerston North.So what does that mean for the people in the Ōtaki electorate? I'll tell you what that means. That means accessibility. That means equality. That means that people who might not have a car can no longer drive or might not be able to afford to run their car will be able to take the train. That means they'll have the same access and equality to things like further training and study to healthcare to be able to work outside for employment but come back to the beautiful Ōtaki electorate where they want to live. Sometimes it's a village with their whole families. Isn't that amazing because we know that while we say infrastructure infrastructure also means equality it also means access and it means what this Labour Government stands for: looking after people. That's right. That's what this Government's doing through its transport.But not only that: I have a nephew Rawiri. He's a beautiful young man. He's in a wheelchair and he's with my auntie so he's a "grandparent raising grandkids" child. He's an amazing young man—super-swimmer really proud of him—but actually it's going to be really tough for him to get to and from study. But not any more—not under this Labour Government. We've made sure that we've got trains for him to independently go to the Levin train station jump on a train and go to Palmerston North if he wants to study or go to Wellington if he wants to study independently. That's right. We are changing lives on this side of the House—that's what it's about. So it's not just infrastructure it's not just TG it's not just PP2Ō it's not just Ō2NL it's not just a train; it's changing lives. It's looking after all New Zealanders. It's making sure that everyone has access to equality and everyone has access to be able to go out.I've heard from some of our elderly people who would love to just be able to jump on a train with their gold card—because it's free or cheap—and go into Wellington grab a cup of coffee do a bit of shopping and go back to the beautiful Ōtaki electorate. Why shouldn't we make sure that that's a thing that they can do? This Labour Government's doing that."