Dowie SarahSARAH DOWIE (National—Invercargill): Well I certainly do not mind being described as a wide-eyed newborn babe but I am certainly no bobblehead. So thank you very much for that description Mr Tabuteau. I am not sure why it is so interesting that the party of competition and the party of promotion on merit is running a competition for the leadership given the resignation of our most excellent Prime Minister who has a record that is second to none over an 8-year period. I too would like to join with my colleagues in congratulating the Prime Minister on those 8 years in which he has delivered sound stable Government which has been compassionate to the vulnerable but was aspirant for New Zealand. He delivered his policies with dedication energy and of course warmth. I thank him for his service and I think it is only fitting that he has left on his own terms with such an excellent record. Well done to the Prime Minister—he deserves to be commended.I am actually going to talk about the regions because last Wednesday was a fantastic day for Southland where the Government swung in behind the Southland Regional Development Strategy and invested millions in our action plan. This is a Government that is supportive of the regions and the plan was to do with several can-do Southlanders coming together to work out a plan to attract 10000 more people into Southland by 2025.These people were divided into action teams and they led from the front. There were teams such as Vibrant Urban Centres" which is looking at rejuvenation in our centre city of Invercargill—a fantastic city but one that needs a little bit of work around its CBD. There was one looking at "Ease of Doing Business": when you come to Southland there are several governing councils that rule over Southland and so it is looking at a consistent regulatory framework across the four. There are things like "Destination Attraction" building on tourism and certainly in respect of our new industries there is "Business Extension" "New Industries" and a team looking at innovation. These people came up with a plan—which should be commended—because they are Southland business people and community leaders who came up with a plan and they turned to us and said "Would you like to get involved?" to which the Government said: "Absolutely."The one thing that I would like to focus on is in respect of "New Industries" because I was very involved in that team and we were responsible for investigating the potential of aquaculture in our region—and there is potential there. We had an initial survey in respect of what the community thought about aquaculture and 91 percent of Southlanders were in favour of investigating and delivering on aquaculture in our region. Let us look at some of the statistics. For one surface hectare of aquaculture it delivers 70 jobs and creates $14 million worth of revenue. That is fantastic. It is a sustainable industry and it is a very low carbon footprint for those salmon farms.The Government has swung in behind that project and delivered $950000 in research to help Southlanders firstly look at their environment to see where aquaculture could be feasible and then has delivered some more money in respect of looking at community engagement as to where in respect of these sites it is appropriate to deliver on aquaculture.It is a fantastic project and the community has been very involved. I also want to thank Ngāi Tahu because iwi have also led from the front in respect of this project. Often people can be somewhat apprehensive about iwi getting involved in projects. However Ngāi Tahu have been completely progressive on this. They would like a slice of this action. They want to deliver jobs and wealth for their families as well as jobs and wealth for Southlanders. This is a plan where we are capitalising on our strengths. We are building capabilities we are creating jobs and we are investing in our people. We want to attract more. Thank you."