O'Connor Damien; Mallard TrevorHon DAMIEN O'CONNOR (Minister of Agriculture): I've been to a few first birthday parties in my life; this is the sixth most significant. The five others have been my daughters'; this is the sixth most significant first birthday party I have been to. And you know what? The country is celebrating. We're part of a united strong and focused Government and I am never more proud in my life to be part of this team.What we have on the other side—firstly I'd like to thank New Zealand First Deputy Prime Minister Mr Peters for his part in bringing this Government together and the Greens for being part of a strong coalition Government. On the other side of the House—it's hard to explain them. It's a group of people that you would think don't still have a bad taste of post-election blues; they still are a case of post-election blues—a bad case. There's a front bench there of wannabes—people who like when in Government were happier to burn bridges than to build them and we came in facing huge challenges across every sector of our society.I have to say that I have been very very proud to be part of a Government that's shown the way in housing; that is getting on and putting the money in place to build houses and to offer security to New Zealanders. This is a Government that's committed $75 on average to over 300000 families in this country who need that money because we accept that wages have been driven too low under the previous National Government and we have to lift them. We're committed to a living wage for all core Government-sector employees and I am proud of that. But in my areas in particular in terms of the primary sectors we have 65 percent of sheep and beef farmers—not a traditional area of our supporters—who are optimistic about the future under a coalition Government of New Zealand First the Greens and Labour. I'm very proud of that. What we've done is show leadership where it's counted. We've gone out formed the Primary Sector Council and said that we must establish a vision for the primary sectors in this country because the previous Government had none—no idea where we were going. We say we need to know where we are going not just to encourage farmers to do more but to get more for what they do. That's the key difference between the previous Government and this Government. We accept there are environmental limits. We accept that we have to pay people more for their efforts. We accept that we want to produce the finest goods in the world and there must be a plan to do that. The previous Government just said to farmers Get on and export more and we'll all be better off."Mānuka honey standards—something the previous Government had completely ignored to the point where our reputation internationally was at risk. We've gone in we've established a standard and we're now saying to those people exporting "Adhere to this standard or we'll come down hard on you." We've put more money—Hon Mark Mitchell: Health.Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR: —$5 million into OVERSEER. Oh health—I'll leave that to my other colleagues for the hundreds of millions of dollars that we're committing to health. In my own electorate a Grey Base Hospital rebuild—complete chaos; a plan that did not have space for people to run administration. That's how chaotic it was. We've had to step in and commit the money to complete that rebuild—one of many many projects across health. Across education—in my electorate a $33 million cheque to Tai Poutini Polytechnic. Why? Because nine years of National Government oversight had almost destroyed that polytech for my region. My colleague the Hon Chris Hipkins—I have to thank him for that—was prepared to front up write a cheque for $33 million and get in there and sort out what is a crucial institution for the future of our region. That story is repeated time and time again around this country where every time we tip over a rock we find some dirty National Party turd there that they tried to hide from the rest of the country.We are committed to building a better fairer Government; a place where every New Zealander has an opportunity. We're doing it in conjunction with two parties that are committed to that better future as well New Zealand First and the Green Party. Finding the right balance between sound environmental protection regional economic development—putting a billion dollars a year to grow and support the population that drives the economies of this country. That's why the country always does better when we're in Government. They are a sad sad case of post-election blues—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."