Simpson Scott; Dean JacquiHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Thank you Madam Speaker. What a pleasure it is to follow a former Auckland Grammar old boy in the shape and form of the Hon Paul Goldsmith and I can remember actually being taught—or Paul Goldsmith's father actually did try and teach me—maths. I'm not so sure whether he was successful—Hon Member: It's his fault! Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: —or not but maybe it was Goldsmith Snr's fault. But look Madam Assistant Speaker Dean can I commence by congratulating you on your appointment and your fellow presiding officers. You've got a big job to do in this 53rd Parliament and here on the Opposition benches we're looking forward to working cooperatively with you. I want to pick up on the theme that several of my colleagues have pursued which is to congratulate the Government on their election victory. We've seen in the term of my lifetime some very significant political swings and cycles over a period of time and New Zealand voters do produce results like this from time to time. But one thing I can assure the current Government is that cycles do turn and they turn quite quickly particularly if Governments don't perform and this Government now has no excuses. This Government has no excuses for the lack of delivery the lack of performance the lack of vision their lack of aspiration and the lack of hope for New Zealanders that they produced during their first three years in office. So it was with some excitement and anticipation that we marched out of this Chamber last week to hear the Speech from the Throne a speech that is designed to present to the nation and to the Parliament the Government's agenda for the next three years and what did we find? Almost nothing—almost no detail no aspiration no hope no sense of transformation. Transformation's gone. Transformation used to be the catchcry of this Government and now the catchcry appears to be little more than tinkering. They've gone from aspiration to air dancing and that's really all they're good for—a little bit of shadow-boxing but nothing specific; no detail no aspiration and nothing to sort of hang their hats on—and unlike the first Speech from the Throne from this Labour Government there was no mention of the Kermadec ocean sanctuary. There was no mention of cameras on fishing boats. There was no mention of a ban on mining on the conservation estate. I guess that those are things that have simply slipped through their fingers no more to be of concern or hope for them. There's no action on reducing waste to landfill. A lot of warm fuzzy words from the previous Green Minister who had delegated responsibility through her associate environment spokesperson-ship but nothing in the Speech from the Throne about those sorts of things and particularly no mention at all about the need for technological biological breakthrough technology in terms of predator control and the sort of science and technology that is now available to us. Nothing ambitious nothing on the horizon at all to solve some of those important issues. Yes there was some talk of Resource Management Act reform but we've heard all that before. I want to again reiterate the comments of the National Party leader—the Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins—who has said that on this side of the House we actually do want to work with the Government on Resource Management Act reform. We want to do that because we know how important it is to get it right not just for our natural environment but also for our built environment. Right at the minute we all know in this House that the current legislative framework isn't working for either our natural environment or our built environment and we can do so much better. But that's a big job and the risk that this current Government has is that under the Minister for the Environment David Parker it's likely to be a situation where we end up with a bundle of statutes that are worse than we have now. So watch out for that. I want to just take a minute to finish in talking about the workplace relations scenario that confronts us. Small businesses in particular in New Zealand are being bashed relentlessly by this Government who insists on inflicting more and more costs upon them. This Government seems to have a view that businesses can have an infinite capacity to absorb cost. Well the sad news is that they don't. So an extra week's sick leave an extra public holiday fair-pay agreements—these sorts of things that are driven largely by the agenda of the trade union movement and that now appear to be on the work programme of this current Government all add cost. None of it adds to productivity and these small businesses rather than taking on new staff are at risk of putting staff off because they can only adjust their costs if they have to. So I'm looking forward to this Parliament. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): I call the Hon Kiritapu Allan—a five-minute call.