Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (NZ First): Soon New Zealand will see from this side of the House a party of life stamina and energy—a party that reminds New Zealanders that over the last nine years the other side earned the moniker and earned the reputation of being the dead horse party. Why do I say the dead horse"? Number one they continue to flog the notion that their policies of giving tax cuts to the rich starving schools a monstrous deficit starving hospitals a monstrous health deficit and using the environment as a sewer—consequently they now are the party of pollution.Now pollution is about contamination. That side of the House—not only are they still trying to trot out tired ill-founded hopeless ideas but they have left a spirit of contamination in certain parts of the economy where they believe it's fine to continue to sell the country to the highest bidders. Those days are over. They thought it was fine to melt down the infrastructure of the country and leave that debt to future generations which is why—Hon Dr Nick Smith: Like Waterview.Hon SHANE JONES: Oh Mr Smith. I just see Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species book in front of me. In that book Charles Darwin points out that occasionally nature delivers some frightful outcomes—frightful outcomes. If there's a person in Parliament on the other side of the House who licensed pollution worsened the prospects of our environment and enabled the entire farming community to continue to take for granted the fine name of our nation—the social licence that all industries need not only to cherish but to develop—it lies in that sad individual. I don't want to say any more about Nelson's product sending him to Parliament because the Nelsonians are encouraging me to step forward as the first citizen of the provinces. I have said "What did Mr Smith do for you over nine years? Why do you continue to support him?" That is why I have encouraged the Minister of Education to offer special education in and around that man's environment. But let me continue about some of the areas that this Budget must address. Why should we have to defend this tawdry tawdry record from that side of the House when they made promises to regional New Zealand but couldn't find more than $11 million? Well New Zealand in a very short period of time you will have not only $1 billion not only $2 billion but $3 billion to address the neglect the sadness and also the broken promises. But wait—wait! You will also have the opportunity to engage in a project of civic pride—nation-building—called the billion-tree strategy.Now I am not unlike a leopard: I have spots of modesty that are seen from time to time and as we prowl around the country we find that there are scared rabbits. There are rodents. Why? Because that's all that's been left in some areas of our conservation estate—our local regional areas. But this Government it is going to spend the money the last crowd refused to. Why? Because we've been given a mandate by New Zealander voters to redress and to meet societal arrears that we've been left with. It is absolutely appropriate that every time this side of the House stands and speaks we sheet home the responsibility where it belongs.Biosecurity is something that lies at the heart of our nation's wealth-creating capacity. It was an abject failure under the last Government. They stand every day and try and blame Damien O'Connor. Why did you short the funding? Hon Nathan Guy: That's you. That's him.Hon SHANE JONES: Why did you refuse to deliver an appropriate level of funding? It's a sad occasion when Mr Guy stands up limply trying to criticise the champion of the West Coast when he had every opportunity and his politics and his intellect are like the rear teat on the udder. Thank you very much."