Bakshi Kanwaljit Singh; Tisch LindsayKANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): Thank you for the opportunity to support the Prime Minister's statement. First of all I would like to congratulate the Prime Minister the Rt Hon Bill English on his strong leadership. The previous speaker Kris Faafoi was talking about leadership. Leadership is what Bill English has shown in starting this year. He is a very strong leader. We have seen his success as a finance Minister over the last 8 years and now he is taking this country to the next level. He is a strong leader yet a very humble person who has not forgotten his roots. He is still the same Bill English for his own people of Dipton and he has shown his connection over there.When we talk about leadership we have got the Hon Paula Bennett: a solo mother who started out when she was jobless but she kept her focus and today what is she? She is the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand. That is what you can achieve in this country. The sky is the limit. The only thing is that you have to do the hard work.The Government created a lot of jobs last year. How many? There were 130000. The previous speaker Kris Faafoi was saying that the Government does not have any plan or has not done anything. If we have not done anything how come 130000 jobs were created last year? Our economy has been constantly growing at around 3 to 3.5 percent for the last 8 years. When Labour left office the country was already in a depression but because of the good management of this Government the country is back in surplus. We are the first country in the OECD that has come back to surplus. We have got policies we have got an agenda and we will work for New Zealanders to succeed. It is very important for New Zealanders to understand that the National Government is the only party that has got a growth agenda.The minimum wage has been growing for the last 8 years. We are earning on average almost $59000 per annum which is $12000 more since we came into office. The economy is diversifying tourism is growing and we see a bulk of people coming from overseas to visit New Zealand. Recently I met one of the operators who was visiting us from India. He said that high-spending tourist people are looking for opportunities to come and visit New Zealand and we hope that in the years to come we will see more and more tourists coming to this country.I would like to touch upon the recent announcement by the Prime Minister about safer communities. It is one of the issues that is very close to the heart of ethnic people and I have been talking to them to get their input and know about what they would like to see. The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister rightfully announced the additional 1125 more police officers who will be helping the communities at large. It is not only in the main cities but also in the regional areas that they will be focusing.Most importantly I would like to touch on this topic: 20 ethnic officers are going to interact with the ethnic communities so that they can tell them what they should be doing to avoid the minor crimes that are happening in our society. More than $500 million is being invested in the justice sector so that we can reduce the crime and we can reduce the reoffending and the Government is working hard upon that. With the new non-emergency number available 24/7 that will be helping people to address their issues when they want to get connected with the police or any other department.I would also like to say that this Government is focused upon doing things for the betterment of New Zealanders so that—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I am sorry to interrupt the honourable member. His time has expired.