Horan Brendan: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHoran Brendan: General Debate[Sitting date: 28 May 2014. Volume:699;Page:18411. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]BRENDAN HORAN (Independent): I wonder where we are going as a nation and what is important to us. I asked this question of some university students just yesterday and here is what they said. They said that they need pathways into young people owning a home. Currently they are priced out of the market. They need coding in schools to learn how to make their own operating systems and to learn how to protect their privacy as a nation and as citizens. These university students said to me that nobody represents them in Parliament and that they are a youth of great ideas wanting to be equal and wanting to be represented. They also said that we need to address underemployment. There is work but much of it is for little pay with inconsistent hours. We funnel fresh adults into university with no direction loading them with debt before they know what they want. They said to me that as young people and teenagers they are not taught anything about the political process nor do they feel like they are able to have an effect. Most of all they want a forum through which they can express their well-informed views and to feel as though they can effect change by voicing their opinions. They asked me to note that it is not very promising when our Government ignores the overwhelming majority of opinions in referendums.Plato said that one of the penalties for not taking an interest in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. I have got great news for those students. There is a fresh new breeze on the political landscape. It is being formed at the moment and it is called the New Zealand Independent Coalition. It is a collective of people who recognise that we need to plan for our future and that the future is our own. Nobody is going to give it to us; we have to plan it and make it ourselves. If we plan it correctly it can be magnificent. We need to value young people. We need to look to the future. In 2020 there will be 6 billion people with 75 billion devices connected to the industrial internet. We need to isolate the jobs that will be lost because thousands of jobs will be lost with the new technologies. In 2020 there will be 3-D printers and we will havethem just like we used to have fax machines. We could be having a birthday party and we could just plug in and say: “OK. Happy birthday Mr Speaker.” and out will come cups and glasses saying “Happy Birthday Mr Speaker.” Manufacturing as we know it will be turned on its head. As I said thousands of jobs will be lost. But thousands of jobs will also be created. We need to be planning for children young people and existing workforces so that we can give them the skills and competencies so that we as a nation can compete in that new world.The industrial internet is the internet of everyone and everything on every screen. It is coming. There may be some dinosaurs here who try to make snide comments but they will be gone at the next election. They do not realise the massive change that is coming. It is quite interesting because down there is a party that purports to represent seniors but what has it done for seniors? In the 1960s we had a situation where we had this much tax going into this much societal need with senior citizens and those who were unemployed. But now it has been inverted and we have this much tax. In 2020 over 20 percent of our citizens will be senior citizens and we need to plan. We do not have to reinvent the wheel. I have heard a party say that we need more retirement homes. What a lot of rubbish. What a crock. What we need to do is plan. Japan recognised this problem 15 years ago and it has done something about it. Japan values its senior citizens and it values the integrity and the dignity of senior citizens. Of course there are some exceptions but on the whole that is what we need to do. I will repeat again—the future is ours. Nobody is going to give it to us. We need to plan and make it ourselves and for New Zealand it can be magnificent.