McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Sometimes fate plays into one's hands and it is a great pleasure for me to follow the two Green members who clearly think there should be something in the Budget for everyone—and so do I—but there is not. There never has been for many years now and I think the issue that we have just got to take out of those last two speeches is that if we do not generate enough money we are certainly not going to be able to put money into everyone's pockets.But the issue that I want to talk about is that everyone comes to Parliament for a reason. I know Steffan came for a reason as well but everyone comes to Parliament for a reason—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! Mr Browning.IAN McKELVIE: Oh Mr Browning—sorry Mr Assistant Speaker. Mr Browning came to Parliament for a reason. We come to Parliament for a reason and for 6 years I have sat in this Parliament and watched our Prime Minister and finance Minister lead a country that was desperately needing to get itself back into surplus that was struggling to pay the bills that we needed to pay and that was struggling to get our people in a position where they could live in a more comfortable manner. Finally after some significant effort we have got to that position and from my perspective coming into this Parliament—I guess I came here for a number of reasons but one of them was most certainly to see the people who do not have every opportunity in New Zealand get as much opportunity as they can. I think that is the absolute key of this Budget. We have at last been able to get to a point where we can encourage people with some help and some assistance to get them in a position to be able to support their families better than they otherwise would have and to take a greater part in our community than they otherwise would have been able to take.Clearly from a Government perspective our objective must be to get those people into a position where they can earn enough money not to rely on Government assistance and obviously the role of a Government is to facilitate people's ability to get where they want to get. I want to congratulate our finance Minister and the hard work of our Ministers in this Government to get us into a position after some 9 years where we could finally start to alleviate the pressure on many of our families in New Zealand. I am also in another life the chairman of Special Olympics New Zealand. I take a special interest in mental health and special needs in our education sector and I think at last we have got ourselves to a position where we are able to invest more money in the solutions for both of those issues which are seriously challenging our community and will continue to do so. But none the less this Government has finally got to a position where it can invest in those people and help them get along a lot better than they otherwise would have. It will be interesting to see the outcome we get to that in the next few years.The next thing I want to talk about is the opportunity that tourism has given New Zealand. We heard the last two speakers both speaking about the number of people coming across our border and of course as a result of the last Budget we do have a border clearance levy—or the one before I think—that they actually pay. They pay their own way through customs so it is not as if we need to add more budgetary money to that every year to get them through our borders because that is taken care of by the levy.But on the tourism issue some of our communities are seriously challenged by a lack of infrastructure and a lack of people living in them and of course they are the pristine areas which Minister Barry talked about in her contribution a few moments ago that many of our overseas tourists are so keen to come into New Zealand to visit and participate in and that we obviously as a country are so keen to share with them. So the investment that we have made of some $112 million in an infrastructure fund to help those councils to provide that sort of facility for those tourists and the significant investment that the Department of Conservation is making in developing new walking tracks upgrading its current facilities and providing infrastructure for tourism is also hugely interesting for our community. I think it is of great benefit to an electorate like the Rangitīkei.A number of other issues were dealt with in the Budget and I want to talk very briefly about the issues that affect my electorate and many other electorates—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): I apologise for interrupting the member. I wrongly set the timer in the anticipation that I was going to get a full 10 minutes from the member. I now understand it is only a 5-minute speech and therefore he does have only 1 minute left to go. I apologise to the member.IAN McKELVIE: Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. I was ready to go for a full 10 minutes as well.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Well the member can if he wants to—his call.IAN McKELVIE: No no I am quite happy with my lot. I am very pleased with the way it is going and so I will make the most of it.Other issues that I want to very briefly talk about are the clean-up that is going on in our environmental area. This Government has made a contribution to cleaning up our environment that is second to none in the history of New Zealand. Our farmers are contributing significantly to that same clean-up and I think we are doing very well with it. We always have challenges and at the end of the day we have been in this country farming and dealing with things in the manner that we have for well over 160 years now and of course there have been people living here for many years before that. It is inevitable that when we live in a country like this we are going to change the way things work so it is also essential that the Government assists and promotes the cleaning up of those areas to make sure that we get a much better result as a result of that. I think this Government's contribution to our environmental clean-up is just huge and is second to none. Thank you.