McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Mr Speaker. I want to just reflect for a moment on the puffery of Mark Patterson in his initial remarks to the House today. I just wondered—and I'm not for a minute trying to undermine his freedom of speech—whether he would be that confident when he got up in Gore with his 6 or 7 percent support and said the same thing. I don't think he would. But none the less I think that it's all relevant and we all have an opinion.I wanted to talk today about a couple of things and I think one of the reasons I came to Parliament—and we just heard the last speaker Chlöe Swarbrick say why she came to Parliament and I thought she made a very good speech on some very interesting points. One of the reasons I came to Parliament is to ensure our children's future—and I don't care whose children they are; they're all the same to me. But I think we all have an opinion on how our children should live in the future and what opportunities they should have. If you think about New Zealand throughout our history thousands and thousands of New Zealanders have gone to war and other things to fight for the freedom of New Zealand and our right to stay and be what we want to be as best we can within the law.I want to just speak for a minute about integrity because there's a lot of discussion about integrity in this country and a lot of discussion about integrity in this Parliament. We're sent here by people from all over New Zealand and they expect us to uphold the integrity of this country the integrity of the things we believe in and I think it's the most important thing. The moment this House undermines people's belief in our integrity we run a serious risk of losing credibility and I think that's a great shame for us as a Parliament. I know we come under a lot of criticism a lot of it justified. I think we also put ourselves out there in whatever we believe in for a very good reason and that's because we came here as I said earlier to fight for our futures. So I think that we're put here by electorates parties and people and indeed we come here to fight for ourselves amongst other things. We're charged with expressing opinion and a collective opinion in the end forms the legislation that we put in place to enable people to get on with their lives.A couple of weeks ago the Mayor of Auckland made a decision which I thought was flawed to I guess interfere in what I think is people's ability to speak. You can't tell me that council property is not public property. You can't tell me that university property is not public property. It is there for everybody and I think it is most important. Just this week a vice-chancellor of a university that I have a lot of time for in fact made a decision that I don't understand. I think as the Hon Chris Finlayson said earlier it's an extraordinary decision in my view to stop people from having a platform to put their view. I think that when we get to that point we are running some very serious challenges with our freedom and our ability to express our opinion of where we want to go to in the future.We have a very good law and order system in place. One of the reasons that law and order system—our police and the many other parts of it—is put in place is to enable us to feel safe in our communities. I guess when I talk about feeling safe I really mean it enables us to have no fear of whatever. I think when you have no fear you do feel safe. Those police and our law and order system is put in place to enable people to have an opinion to enable people to live a safe and fearless life and to enable people to feel safe in their own homes. I think it's hugely important that we uphold those principles and that we fund and ensure we have a system in place that enables people to feel safe to express an opinion to live a life they want to live and to actually—and contrary to what the previous Labour speaker Michael Wood said I do think people have a right to a decent income. I think everyone on this side of the House thinks people have a right to a decent income. It's how we attain that decent income that's most important to us.That takes me on to another topic I want to touch on very briefly. Our economy is hugely important to us and when you think about a car—those of us who are old enough to remember having to push-start the car quite often; I fortunately lived on a hill so you could get it going down the hill quite quick but the thing about push-starting a car is you don't let the blimmin thing stop until you know it's going to go again and I think that's the challenge we've got with our economy. It's all very well to stall an economy; it's hugely difficult to push-start that economy and get it going again. I think that that's the threat I see in provincial New Zealand right now. I think we have some people who are concerned about the fact that we may not push-start this car again readily and I think that's what's driving business confidence down a little and causing some of the challenges that I think we have in our provincial communities particularly because I think that's where a lot of this lack of confidence is coming from. So I just hope we don't slow that car to the point where it doesn't go any longer. Thank you Mr Speaker.