Strange Jamie; Rurawhe AdrianJAMIE STRANGE (Labour): Mr Speaker thank you for the opportunity to take a call on the Prime Minister's statement and follow my colleague Jo Luxton and I'd like to continue some of the themes that she was talking about—in particular the themes around infrastructure in the regions. So if we have a look at the country of New Zealand and we look at the regions in New Zealand the regions have been struggling for a number of years. However we have a Government finally who are investing in the regions. Let's just pick any sort of you know—we could pick any sort of random town or city in the regions and see how they're doing. Let's just pick one at random—let's go Hamilton. Let's just see how Hamilton is doing under this current regime. So the first one—this is just the last two years remember? So let's see how Hamilton's doing. First of all they received $12 million from the Provincial Growth Fund for a theatre in the heart of the CBD a $75 million theatre. And what comes with that is a $30 million hotel. So that's a $100 million investment enabled—enabled—by the Provincial Growth Fund. And I can see the member opposite Tim van de Molen is just as excited as me because he's from the same region. There is a $50 million sheep milk drier. Now sheep milk as an emerging dairy industry—and it's fantastic that the Government is supporting that through $18 million from Pāmu which is the old Landcorp. So $18 million there towards a $50 million sheep milk drier. Let's see what else is happening in Hamilton. Oh $100 million for a mental health facility—a mental health facility upgrade at the Waikato University. Let's have a look at education: $25 million for the schools in Hamilton around property. We've seen $16 million for Rototuna High Schools for an extension of their classrooms. We've seen around $10 million for other capital expenditure and we've heard from previous speakers there is up to $400000 for most State schools in Hamilton. I've also been visiting those schools like a number of MPs have been doing across this House and hearing from them about what they plan to spend that money on. And a lot of them are engaging with their staff and saying to their staff What are the key needs?" so basically they're collaborating. We've heard from members opposite. They've been calling out during the speeches around this infrastructure spend in the schools—belittling it and not valuing it. But for those principals and for those learners this is going to make a huge difference for their learning.Let's see what else; we're about halfway through. There is $5 million per annum for an alcohol and other drug treatment court. I'd like to acknowledge the previous Government for rolling out two of these in Auckland and the third one has been rolled out in Hamilton. That's certainly exciting for our region and we welcome that. There is $180 million in Hamilton for an interest-free loan for the Peacocke subdivision to develop 8500 houses—8500 houses. A number of them will be affordable houses; $180 million in an interest-free loan. And what comes with that is $110 million in New Zealand Transport Agency subsidies. And I can see the road being built at the moment and the bridge across the Waikato River.Here's another one: $1 billion towards the Waikato Expressway. We just had the opening of the Huntly section recently. So this is a four-lane piece of road between Hamilton and Auckland. It was started in the early 2000s under the previous Labour Government. The National Government continued it and this Government have invested $1 billion since we've been in. So that's around $2 billion over 20 years. But this Government—$1 billion for the Waikato Expressway. There is $79 million for passenger rail between Hamilton and Auckland. This is something that people have been calling for for a long time because at the moment there are a lot of people living in Hamilton and they're working in Auckland. They travel up and they get caught on the southern motorway and this will basically give people diversity in their transport options. So $79 million for passenger rail and that's due to start in July this year. There'll be tables with the seats. People can open their laptops. They can be productive. There'll be charging points.Just last week we had the announcement that Hamilton will be the headquarters of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. The Hamilton CBD is thriving at the moment. We've got five key projects—five key construction projects—about to take off ranging between $20 million and $100 million and they're about to start in the next six months. So I just picked Hamilton at random just to see what was happening in that particular region—and a huge amount of investment from this Government. I'm proud to be part of a Government who are investing in the regions of New Zealand. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! Thank you. Tim van de MolenTim van de Molen: This is a split call.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Sorry this is a split call—five minutes Tim van de Molen"