Cameron MarkMARK CAMERON (ACT): Not at all Mr Speaker. Thank you very much for your time today to speak to the Estimates bill—the Budget debate. A rural-friendly Budget debate I reconcile. I believe that it's got a rural lens in it damnably good lens an ACT Party rural lens. We brought significant change to the narrative to this rural budget and I want to highlight a couple of very salient figures: $65 million accelerating development of greenhouse gas mitigation research and development—something very salient to rural New Zealand; and increased funding to the Te Arawa Lakes programme of $13 million and an overall $67 million the budgetary allowance for freshwater.We actually listened to rural New Zealand. If I may sir we go back to first principles. What are the costs? What are the benefits? Do the benefits outweigh the costs? If they don't perhaps we shouldn't be doing this stuff. The previous lot I would argue weren't so good at listening to those kind of realities.The vast initiatives I've spoken to are many. We put property rights at the centre of our campaign. We heard of the salient issues to do with significant natural areas—a fraught issue. We're willing to go to battle for private property rights and ownership to acknowledge the importance of local investments and things like the Queen Elizabeth's trust gracious me affording property rights and outcomes for better biodiversity.We were instrumental in keeping farming out of the emissions trading scheme. We actually care about rural people and their mental wellbeing. Rural emissions are vastly different from other industries—I know this intimately well; I am a farmer as you well reconcile—with significant consideration needed discussion had and outcomes understood. That is still in development we would argue. I would suggest perhaps the Parliament previously I would certainly believe was quite happy to see productivity fall on the back of not having those discussions.ACT led the way in opposition to He Waka Eke Noa. It was fraught with difficulties. What were the numbers? How do we reconcile the outcome? Were they accurately understood? This Budget certainly speaks to those. We've got to stop the hyperbole and ask the questions and I maintain that this Budget puts farmers back in the centre of that discussion puts them gracious me in the room—there's a novel idea! No longer languishing in silence actually making these people—and this Budget speaks to them—part of that process.ACT put a member's bill as you would perhaps remember sir in the previous Parliament speaking to localism outcomes farm management fresh water their assets—understanding the nuances of on-farm practices and fresh water. Sadly our friends on the left all voted it down—the Labour and the Green team think it was better run by Wellington. The farmers that we listen to in this Budget certainly reconcile otherwise.We worked across party lines in language of collaboration National ACT and New Zealand First. We said Let's follow the science." collectively initiated an independent inquiry into science of biogenic methane a short-lived gas out of the ruminant animal sector that I have spoken of before. We preserve private property rights by challenging the significant natural areas and rolling back the erosion of what it looked like to everyday Kiwis. Andrew Hoggard here as you well know sir has worked tirelessly to promote localism and this Budget certainly highlights that. Farm plans better freshwater management outcomes are certainly being felt and improved in rural New Zealand and I'm happy to share that. One final thing I would add sir: this has been ACT's core business in rural New Zealand. We listened; this Budget certainly speaks to that. It's not about officials in Wellington—it's about real people in rural New Zealand."