Andersen Ginny; Rurawhe AdrianGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. It's great to be part of a Government that's delivering for New Zealand and we're straight into it with a $12 billion infrastructure package—more infrastructure more investment in New Zealand than since World War II. The interesting thing is I've been listening to the debates in this House and I think there's a fundamental difference going on in that definition of infrastructure. Somewhere on the other side of the House infrastructure just equals a big road whereas on this side of the House it means a wee bit more than a big road. It means public transport as well as cycleways as well as roads as well as interchanges as well as schools that don't leak as well as health facilities like mental health units and maternity units. It means a whole lot more than just four-lane highways because that's actually what helps people not just roads. So we're doing the roads and we're doing a whole lot more and that's what this is about.We've been hearing some great fairy tales in the House in terms of this story of what's happened in the past of New Zealand and I'm fascinated. I think the transport spokesperson on that side did an excellent impersonation of Rumpelstiltskin yesterday where he nearly went through the floorboards stamping his foot. But the interesting story—the interesting story—was what actually happened under the past story. So let's go there. Let's have a look at that fairy tale and see what happens.What we did what we actually had is we had these roads of national significance but they probably should have been named the roads of National Party significance" because that's exactly what they were. They were actually a deliberate intention to set out to undermine the independence of the New Zealand Transport Agency and their decision-making process and that's exactly what happened with the roads of national significance and it's something that this Government has had to turn around.The legacy of unfunded ghost roads has haunted communities from around New Zealand. The legacy here is that what was left was the land transport fund was $2.2 billion oversubscribed because of the hollow promises that weren't backed up with actual funding. What we saw was not one but many projects around the country places like the Penlink places like Melling interchange where we had great promises—great promises—but no funding to deliver. That is the big difference with this Government. So it's fascinating that we hear claims on that side that it's the party of infrastructure when in reality they were hollow promises that never delivered actual roads. So to put a promise in place you need to fund it and that is a difference.But there's more going on than just important places to keep moving and keep public transport in line with what's also happening on our roads and that is about our schools. We haven't heard anything from the other side of the House—we haven't heard one thing—about what would be done with the schools. What was happening for those nine years that we were left wondering? What was happening was children were sitting in classrooms that leaked. Buildings that needed to be repaired were not repaired. Hospitals that needed vital infrastructure were not done so and that's exactly the case where we are here in the Hutt Valley. What's happened there particularly with maternity is we have seen a huge underfunding for services that are now having to be rebuilt—front-line services that have not had adequate equipment to be able to function properly. To have to do that properly we see now a $9.4 million investment in a brand new refurbishing of the maternity unit within Hutt Hospital—about time.It's about time the people and the mums in the Hutt got facilities that were actually functioning and operating properly. It's about time too that we got a $25 million acute mental health unit so that when young people in the Hutt instead were being shipped out over to Porirua and ran away to come back to the Hutt now we can get those services right there where we live so that families can support other family members that are going through a tough time and those people can go to their local hospital and get the services and the support that they need at that time. That's because we care about infrastructure and our definition of infrastructure is a bit different than a four-lane highway. It's about—Kieran McAnulty: Thanks for Melling Ginny Andersen. Thank you for Melling.GINNY ANDERSEN: —the people that are in there and it's about—ha ha! You're welcome. You can come on down to Melling any old time.So it's a good day to be in a Government that is delivering to New Zealanders. There are more than hollow promises; there are differences to people's lives made on a daily basis because we are investing more so than any Government has done in a very long time.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I understand this is a split call."