Hayes JoJOANNE HAYES (National): Might be Lemon and Paeroa over there eh? Anyway I am really mad as hell about this water policy that Labour is touting around the countryside. I am mad as hell because this is harking right back to the Rogernomics days when Labour kicked the guts out of farmers. I am standing here and I am going to be a voice for the sheep and beef farmers because that is where I come from. Those are my roots—sheep and beef farming.To kick the guts of the farmers again—is that the only Labour policy that is actually coming out there? I am going to say that the primary sector—and I will keep on saying this along with my colleagues—is the backbone of the economy of this country. It always has been and it always will be. If you tax the water that farmers use you may as well just kiss this economy goodbye. Not once have I heard from the Opposition members on how they are going to replace that piece of the economy. I have not heard a damn thing just Let's kick the guts out of the farmers". I do not want to see any farmer in this country go back to those days.Let us talk about forestry. I think it was under—let us have a think. Oh yes it was a Labour-led Government that strip-felled between Rotorua and Taupō. Yes there were lovely farms there but it strip-felled and it never replaced those trees. When we start to look at all the things that Labour has not done for this country and things that it is proposing in its tax tax tax and spend—nowhere in any of the things that it is saying is how it is going to grow the economy.If you take out the primary sector we will see an increase in unemployment. Three hundred and fifty thousand people work in the primary sector. There is touted be another 50000 more people who will be looking to work in this sector up to 2025. When we start to look at that water policy we are going to see all of that gone. All of those people are going to be lining up with Victor on the unemployment benefit because this water tax will have kicked the guts out of their bosses and out of the primary sector and they will have lost their jobs.So we will have an increase in unemployment an increase in the number of beneficiaries and an increase in the cost of food products. Just today I was having a talk with some of my colleagues and they talked about how once you start increasing the cost of food to all New Zealanders that is when we start to look at the imported stuff. That would be a very sad day. The previous Prime Minister Sir John Key set this country up so that we would be like the farmers market of the world—of the world. This country has been set up for that and under the Labour Party water policy that is going to be chucked out the back door. We will no longer be competitive. We will lose our trade advantage because our farmers will be pushed to the wall. They will be pushed to the wall and we cannot have that on this side of the House. I can see our farmers coming out in protest on that particular bill. I can see Labour on the Opposition benches for another 3 or another 6 years because it has not got—Hon Member: Probably 9.JOANNE HAYES: For 9 years it is going to be there over there rotting because its policies are about attack tax and spend and no way is it going to replenish those coffers.In fact National has replenished those coffers. That is why we are in surplus. We are in surplus; we are leading the world when it comes to surplus for this country. So when we start looking at that we see that Labour's policies are wanting to spend all of that. Labour is wanting to take us back to those dark ages and we are not going to go back there. We are going to be standing there fighting alongside our people within the primary sector because they deserve a voice in this House. All of this side is giving them their voice.Let us talk about Māori farmers because not just the Pākehā farmers; it is the Māori farmers as well who will not benefit from a water tax. We have just managed to get them to a point whereby everybody is starting to make headway within the primary sector and that side of the House wants to cut it out. New Zealand First sits over there and talks about Pepsi and Coke. Well it is just a flat Lemon and Paeroa—a flat Lemon and Paeroa. You would not even have it with your gin and you would not even have it with your vodka. It is so flat you would not even put ice in that Lemon and Paeroa. I should not really say Lemon and Paeroa should I because that is a New Zealand town Paeroa. I should really say—Hon Scott Simpson: That's right. In the Coromandel electorate.JOANNE HAYES: Ha! I should really say that it is some sort of foreign something from overseas that that group is. It is absolutely a nothing coming in here and saying that to us. This side of the House is the side that has actually grown this country and the economy and we will continue to do that after this election when we are voted back in."