Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Madam Chair. What an excellent choice might I say? I was on the West Coast of the South Island on Sunday as part of the 5000 people who protested against the Government and their effective ban on so much of the mining that's been going on for generations on the West Coast. Someone mentioned that Shane Jones had been there recently and they were not saying that he was the Hero of the West Coast" as he described himself today in Parliament but they did say "Shane came and threw us a bit of money." But what we were also there for was the opening of this major bridge halfway between Greymouth and Hokitika. That was of course all funded under a National-led Government and all built under a National-led Government. There was no Minister there other than the Hon Damien O'Connor and there were a lot of placards mentioning his name and none of them were flattering.Unfortunately Mr Jones wasn't there. I thought he might have stayed for that. It would have been a good thing to have stayed for but he was obviously otherwise detained; and Mr Phil Twyford the Minister of Transport—because of course this debate is about transport as well—was otherwise detained as well. I was very happy to be there along with Maureen Pugh and the Hon Paul Goldsmith because we wanted to talk about regional development. We wanted to talk about transport and we wanted to talk about what was actually important for the people of the West Coast. So there were 5000 people many of whom would have been Labour Party members or voters in the past and they were very upset. Along with them of course were 1000 trucks and lorries which is a pretty impressive turnout and all using oil and petrol and things like that: the things that the Labour Party used to actually value but now no longer do. It's good that the Hon Shane Jones is having a bit of a smile because he also likes I think the oil and gas but unfortunately has been done over in this Government.I listened before to my detriment to Jan Logie talking about roads—roads of national significance and how dreadful they all are. Well having driven on these roads they're fantastic. That's where roads should be going: roads that are actually safe by design not safe by just hoping that everyone's going to drive correctly and within the law but roads that are safe by design. Not one death so far—and we're touching wood as we say it—on the roads of national significance. Not one death. That is an amazing record particularly when we consider that on many of these roads the speed limit is 110 kilometres an hour and I'm sure people do even more than that. Incredibly safe properly built roads; that's where we should be—not goat tracks as the Greens would have us have; not just sticking up a few chains between things and saying "Well that'll do. Here's $20 million; there that'll sort it." No it won't. It's not going to sort out the Katikati to Tauranga road. It's not actually going to help people's lives be saved—actually not just their lives either; the incredible injuries that occur on roads through in many cases poor design but also through not driving to the conditions and to the road design. These are the sorts of things that the Government should be looking at; not worrying about a tram going down Dominion Road from Auckland CBD through to the airport so that tourists and some others can have some fun time on it; not taking an hour for that tram to go from Auckland CBD to the airport when you can actually get there at the moment using the Waterview tunnel—by the way funded and built by National—in 20 minutes.These are the sorts of decisions that a Government should be making which should be looking at a country that should be growing not going back into the past not giving up on the fact that we are still a country of only 4.6 million people. Although if you listen to the census that the Hon James Shaw is so proud of he probably thinks we're now about 3.3 million because he's lost about a million people in the census. That's where we should be going. We should be looking for growth not for bringing our economy backwards. We should be going forward with our economy. It should be promoting people based on merit not based on anything else. It should be looking after industries. It should be looking after regions such as the West Coast: an area that will in fact come back once National is back leading our Government; an area of the country that is the salt of the earth; that was the birthplace of the Labour Party and that will be its death. Thank you."