Smith StuartSTUART SMITH (National—Kaikōura): Well I want to really focus on how the economy has allowed us to be in a position to make some really good choices. Firstly I would like to talk about the $812 million that has been set aside in the Budget for the reinstatement of State Highway 1 and the rail corridor through the Kaikōura earthquake area. I can report that there is great progress going on there. It has been greatly appreciated by not only the people in Kaikōura and Hurunui but all of New Zealand really that the Government stepped up immediately and made a commitment to reinstate that part of State Highway 1 and the rail corridor. I think that is something we can do because we are in a position financially or fiscally to actually make those choices when they come along.One of the things that our Budget allows us to do and that we have put some money aside for is to actually put ourselves in a good position for future shocks that might come. One of those—quite a small sum $134 million I guess in the scheme of things in the Budget is for our Trade Agenda 2030. That is vital for us—our trade. We are a trading nation we cannot afford to sell goods to ourselves—we just simply will not get anywhere in the world—and we have to get out there and try to grow those exports as quickly as possible. While 2030 might seem a long way off in the trade world that is not the case. We currently export 53 percent of our goods to countries that we have free-trade agreements with. The goal—the really stretched goal—is to grow that to 90 percent of our goods being exported to countries we have free-trade agreements with. That will cost money and that will take expertise mostly and it will also take a great effort from the people who own the businesses to get out and burn shoe leather on the streets of the world trying to sell their goods. That is a great goal. They are also being backed up with a flying squad to help businesses that face non-tariff trade barriers. For those who are not involved in trade those non-tariff trade barriers are very real at the border. They can cost a lot of money they can cause goods to be turned round and sent back to the country of origin—there are all sorts of little tricks that go on in the trade world and we have got people who are very good at navigating those difficulties. We have put money up for that and I think they really need a lot of acknowledgment for that.But moving back onshore irrigation has been spoken about before but I would just like to slightly correct the New Zealand First speaker who said there were billions of litres of bottled water going offshore. There are 9 million litres which is many many orders of magnitude less than was indicated by that speaker. There is $26.7 million going towards irrigation and a capital injection or boost of $63 million for Crown Irrigation and it was alluded to by my colleague Minister Jacqui Dean about the environmental good that that can do. I would like to focus on what is called MAR or managed aquifer recharge which is essentially digging a leaky dam and allowing the water to leak from that dam into the aquifer recharging that aquifer. One of the places it has been trialled is in Hinds in mid-Canterbury and that has a red zone at the moment with quite high nitrate levels in the water. What they have found from that trial is that it has worked exceptionally well. It is perhaps not leaking as well as they would have thought but it is raising the level in the aquifer or the pressure in the aquifer and causing it to flow through and wash out some of those nitrates. We have to lower the nitrates going in but we need to deal with what we have got there and these smart tools will really enable us to make a major change in our environmental outcomes.I would like to point out that actually what we call red zones in Europe are nowhere near that. They would not be green exactly but they would not be anywhere near red so we are in a good position with our water management. We can do a better job and we are putting the money up to make sure that we do. I also know that in my electorate there will be two irrigation schemes looking very closely at that: the Flaxbourne irrigation scheme and the Hurunui water projects. So with that I commend this fantastic Budget to the House.