Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): This Government has done some pretty good things but nature is not something that we can control Mr Mark. If you think that this Government was responsible for delivering myrtle rust you had better think again. But what I would like to say is that while we cannot control nature what we can do is invest in infrastructure and in our infrastructure programme we are looking at things like irrigation. Irrigation is not just for the farmers although it is extremely helpful when it comes to certain weather conditions; it is also really good water storage for towns and irrigation can be extremely beneficial when it comes to filling up rivers and lakes during dry periods. It has an environmental content to it. So while we cannot fight nature we can put things in place infrastructure-wise and Mr Mark I hope when we decide on some of these projects that you might see your way forward to supporting that.New Zealand is growing faster than we have for a very long time. I cannot speak loudly today but I will be able to do it for 5 minutes. We are adding more jobs across the country but to keep growing we do need to invest in more infrastructure and I can think of quite a number of examples just in my own electorate. At the moment we have got consultation going on—final stages of consultation—for Mount Messenger. Recently Minister Bridges came out and he put the green light on the Awakino tunnel bypass. Mount Messenger is almost to the point where an announcement can be made and there is really really big excitement not only in the Taranaki end of the electorate but up in the Waikato because that road is going to open up for produce it is going to open up for tourism and it is going to make a big difference to the lives of people who live along that stretch of highway.Secondly when it comes to infrastructure 151 towns have been identified for the next stage of ultra-fast broadband 12 of those in my electorate. I can actually say that those towns are getting pretty excited about having that infrastructure and the more remote parts of the electorate are looking forward to the announcement on the Rural Broadband Initiative. What is critical is that infrastructure to productivity to health and safety and to getting young people who can come and live out in our electorates take their mobile phones out of their pockets and not just make phone calls but actually be able to get the data to do their jobs to work with apps. So I think it is pretty critical.I have also got another big project that is about begin in my electorate and that is Waikeria Prison. Some people may think that Waikeria Prison or prison itself is not an exciting piece of infrastructure I visited that prison recently and I saw people in there doing the baking making the sausage rolls and doing the farming. There were inmates who are actually training to be baristas—they are going to cater for the tradespeople. And I think what I am really excited about is that we are actually going to have a trade training centre in there and it is going to equip people so that when they come out there are more opportunities for them. I saw people doing driver-licence testing. I saw them on the internet looking for their support services. I saw a heap of things and our employers are much more prepared to take on work-ready people who have come from corrections.So there is a huge amount of infrastructure going on and I know Minister Bridges has touched on roading but I was also out the other day on the Forgotten World Highway. I know Ian McKelvie is very excited because all of the tourism infrastructure around Ruapehu around the Forgotten World Highway around the ski fields—I have to commend the Ruapehu District Council for partnering with the Government and putting in applications around infrastructure for tourism because it is quite a remote part of the country. I have to say it is probably one of the biggest investments Ian has had in his electorate and it flows into mine around Ōhura. We are very excited that some of those facilities are going to be there for those people who want to visit the more remote parts of our country because when you look out along that Forgotten World Highway for places like Ōhura Whangamomona—areas like that that I represent—tourism is their lifeline. The tourism infrastructure partnership is really helping that and I am proud of the infrastructure that this Government is delivering. Thank you.