Russell DeborahDr DEBORAH RUSSELL (Labour—New Lynn): Madam Chair thank you for the opportunity to speak in this debate. I have a particular image I wish to plant in the mind of the Minister for Economic Development in the hope that he will respond to it and I promise it's a pleasant one. As we went through the COVID crisis we became increasingly aware that a strong health response was a strong economic response that keeping New Zealanders safe keeping our borders safe and eliminating the virus gave us the best opportunity for recovery because then our economy could get going again. Of course we are now making moves to help our economy to recover. But there are two particular areas that I wish to direct the Minister's attention to that I'd like to hear a little bit more about. Let me Minister give you the image that has been in my mind for quite some time since early in the lockdown. Early in the lockdown flights were leaving New Zealand—people tourists trying to get home. Lufthansa flew one of the last flights out of the country and as it flew out it did a big loop right over Auckland a big farewell loop to say goodbye. In some ways it was for me quite a heartbreaking moment the thought that the world was leaving us. How were we to stay in the world? So to me that was a critical worry as to how we were going to keep in contact with the world. We are an exporting nation. We rely on exports. We rely on trade. We rely on those critical aviation and freight and transport links to keep us going and if we cannot keep those going we become very closed in. Sure we can feed ourselves but we need the world as well to thrive. So as part of our critical response we needed to put money into maintaining those transport links and I'd like to hear more about exactly the process that was gone through in deciding how to keep our critical transport links and our supply chains going and why it was so important as part of our response to COVID-19 in Budget 2020. But going from that image of the farewell flight and how we maintained our links and going down to something much more local. Minister you and I both come from West Auckland the most beautiful part of the country of course—[Interruption] The most beautiful part of the country. Recently there have been a couple of transport announcements in West Auckland and they are just absolutely marvellous. So as part of this economic development infrastructure and transport debate I want to understand those transport links and in particular it is the focus on getting people moving getting public transport going getting alternative modes of transport going. As a West Aucklander we suffer from congestion on the motorways. We suffer from a lack of linked-up cycleways. We suffer from a variety of I guess ways in which we just can't move around our city freely. But building those transport links has been important not just for the sake of transport but also for creating jobs creating employment and keeping our economy moving. So there are a couple of brilliant projects that have been announced down our way as part of the response to COVID-19 as part of the infrastructure funding that's coming through in response to COVID-19—in particular the Whau walkway which I think is a brilliant announcement but also the north-western busway. I'd like to hear more about why those busways are so important to us—partly for the reasons of transport but also critically importantly for the reasons of keeping people in employment and keeping giving people jobs and helping our economy to get moving again. It's all part of the economic development we need to engage in. I think Minister what it speaks to is the need for a joined-up response across the various areas of Government from economic development to infrastructure to transport to all the areas for which we are responsible. So tell us about that Minister—how all those things make a difference to us as we reinforce our health response to COVID-19 with an excellent economic response an economic response that will in the long term serve us well as we respond recover and rebuild.