Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki-King Country): Thank you Mr Speaker. I just want to take a brief moment in my general debate to acknowledge the success of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme. I want to say that there are a lot of farmers out there who had their hearts broken in this programme in the interest of what has developed into something good for the wider industry. Many of us felt it with you and it's important to acknowledge today that that has been successful and it wasn't done for nothing.Now I want to move on to transport for the future. So this week the announcement from the National Party around transport for the future has really got people excited all the way around our country—all the way around. I want to particularly focus on a couple of areas today—largely the Waikato and Taranaki which are either end of the beautiful Taranaki-King Country electorate. So what National has committed to do is to reinstate the Cambridge to Piarere road which was in place and in play under a former National Government and this current Government canned it. So that's back on the drawing board—the thing that I really want to get excited about as well as the Southern Links project. So that project is going to link Hamilton down through the wonderful area where the Hamilton Airport sits in the wonderful Taranaki - King Country electorate right through to where the Mystery Creek Fieldays are. It's going to join up a nice road around Hamilton because as we know the Waikato Expressway has been fantastic. That was a National Government project and that is working extremely well. And the southern Hamilton area where I join in is now going to get some attention.But the good piece about the Southern Links is that New Zealand doesn't have enough houses and we know this. We know that we need to enable our urban areas to grow. How we're going to deal with some of these roads is to enable greater use of the value-capture and cost-recovery tools so that we can fund major State highway projects specifically to unlock tens of thousands of new homes. So the Southern Links one is directly related to the Peacocke area where the development is going on. So very excited about that. So that's the first part of it. It's going to unlock some housing.For far too long we've heard so much about the golden triangle" in this country that links Auckland with Hamilton and across to the Bay of Plenty. And I keep going "Excuse me we've got a west coast over here." Now we're actually in the phase where we can start linking the Southern Links to come down through the Taranaki - King Country electorate. We can start focusing on the diamond—forget about the triangle; under the National Government the area has become a diamond and women love diamonds!So as we focus down through that area we go through the Awakino where the two bridges are being put in place and the Awakino Tunnel Bypass has happened. And that was a John Key - Simon Bridges National Government project. We currently have cranes diggers and all sorts of equipment sitting in Mount Messenger which was a John Key - Simon Bridges National-led project. It just seems to have taken almost six years to get through resource management which is another problem that the National Government will attend to after 14 October. So we come down through there and we have Port Taranaki. That's a great link for our goods and services to end up through the Waikato and we can actually get some great linkages going on with produce productivity and all of the good products that we share between both of the regions.Now I just wanted to make one more mention about the Forgotten World Highway because there's a piece of road there—the Hon Shane Jones came when the previous Government which included this Labour Government actually took the gas out of the country and left a small amount in Taranaki and offered to do the Forgotten World Highway; except they forgot! It's only just beginning to get some movement. Simeon Brown and Christopher Luxon under a National Government have committed to finally finishing that road up the Forgotten World Highway—so it will be remembered under a National Government!"