SpeechHAMISH WALKER (National—Clutha-Southland): The previous speaker the Hon Ron Mark spoke about the brightness of the future. I just want to highlight that from a Clutha-Southland and Otago Southland perspective and look at what the Budget has done for my fine area. So let's have a look at that.Let's just set the scene for a minute of what's happened there for the last three or four months. If you take Te Ānau a beautiful town in Fiordland gateway to Milford Sound we know in Milford Sound we have around about 130000 visitors in the busier months per year. But Te Ānau October to December last year lost a number of days due to heavy weather; then the Chinese border shut in February; then they had the floods in February which washed out Milford Road; and then we had COVID. Basically 93 percent of their market dried up straight away—93 percent of visitors to Milford Sound are international.Now go up the road a bit to Queenstown the jewel in the crown of New Zealand tourism. Queenstown was the fastest-growing region in New Zealand over the last 11 years—the fastest-growing region growing 7 percent year on year. Compound that for the last 11 years. It's now the hardest hit as a result of COVID. Approximately 75 percent of tourists that visit Queenstown are from international destinations. A lot of those businesses rely solely on international tourism—90 to 95 percent. Businesses built up over decades and generations and the member across the hallway there says that's crap. Well I invite that member down to Queenstown to talk to some of these businesses people that have built these businesses up over decades who phoned me up in tears on the phone because they've put their houses on the line to grow these businesses. They've taken huge amounts of debt on to keep employees in work. Now these businesses have lost basically all their revenue overnight.If we look at what happened throughout COVID these businesses were asking the Government and the tourism Minister for some certainty—certainty in terms of what's your Government's plan going forward. How is a business supposed to plan if the Government is not going to share their plan?We saw in the tourism COVID committees the Minister of Tourism—I actually asked the Minister it was around about the period when they were talking about the numbers attending funerals and I said to the Minister The Earnslaw this is a ship how many people are allowed on the Earnslaw?" His reply was "You need to ask the officials. The officials need to get in touch with that business." Well Minister if every single tourism business has to talk to officials about the rules how on earth are they supposed to plan?Every week we lost somewhere between 400 to 600 jobs in Queenstown. That's a population of 26000. Four hundred to 600 jobs per week is a lot. Millbrook: 300 jobs. Skyline: 500 jobs. Nomads a business where the owner started that 26 years ago—he just wanted some certainty from the Government. In terms of the certainty if you look at the Budget the Budget allocated for an industry that's often the top or second top export earner for New Zealand providing about $112 million of revenue a day $41 billion a year over 10 percent of our country's GDP—how much do you think of the new money they got in the Budget? Ten percent? Eight percent? Twelve percent? Andrew Falloon have a guess.Andrew Falloon: Eight percent.HAMISH WALKER: One percent. For an industry that provides over 10 percent of GDP they got 1 percent of new money: $400 million. And what was in that? A domestic marketing campaign and a working group.I just want to acknowledge the local paper the Mountain Scene a very good article written by Tracey Roxburgh—and just acknowledge them for getting runner-up in the small community newspaper of the year last year. She writes: "Where exactly have you been [Minister Davis]? … Please forgive me for being blunt … but you [have somehow] been dumbfoundingly quiet." We asked you Minister what are you going to do for the for the tourism industry? You replied "There are [lots] of industries struggling at the moment." It goes on later in the letter it states "Again I do apologise [Minister] … it just seems well a bit shit really that you given your portfolio can't seem to answer [a basic question of what you're going to do for tourism]." "I asked if you're present [Minister]." It goes on and on. "This Kelvin is your job." Please do something for us. You seem to be "asleep at the wheel." Well Minister this is an industry too important to fail."