McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Mr Speaker. The great thing about having the ability to criticise the Opposition when you're in Government for everything that goes wrong in Government is that it comes to the end in the end and I suspect at the rate we're going it will be in about 12 months' time. I just want to start my contribution today by talking a little bit about confidence and I know that's been gone on about—confidence—so far today but I woke up so confident this morning that I took Mr Bayly's place speaking here today and I want to thank him for that. But I just had to make a couple of comments on the way to getting to the point of my speech. It's ironic for me—one of the great ironies of this place is that we heard the Deputy Prime Minister a few minutes ago crowing about the great success of the dairy industry in propping up the New Zealand economy. I recall he spent nine years sitting just down the passage here a little way or down the side here a little way criticising the previous Government for the success of the dairy industry in New Zealand. He's now crowing about the success of the dairy industry in propping up the New Zealand economy—ironic in my view. He's also of course presiding over an economy that's being driven by the other thing he complained about a lot and that was immigration.I worked out the enigma of the New Zealand First side of the House because I've done it by looking at their ties. You see Mark Patterson in his light blue tie Clayton Mitchell in his dark blue tie the leader in his black tie and Darroch Ball in his red tie—pretty much sums up the enigma of the New Zealand First part of that Government. You'll notice that I've got a blue tie on and it's got a saddle on it which are used to ride the king of all animals the horse. Now I want to talk very briefly about another thing before I get on to the real topic I want to talk about and that's the inquiry into electricity. So we launched with great aplomb this inquiry into the electricity activities of New Zealand. Of course in my part of the world in the north of my electorate I do have some very challenged areas because the more remote your communities are the much more difficult it is to deliver electricity into those areas. Consequently we have higher prices in some of those areas. But this inquiry into electricity has effectively delivered a murky report that basically recommends that the majority of us pay more so a few of us can pay less. It doesn't seem to make any sense to me.Then we had the last speaker Jan Logie blaming poverty on suppressed wages when in fact the increase in poverty at the moment has been caused by a dramatic increase in prices caused by policies introduced by this Government and I need say no more about that because rent is clearly the obvious one.But when you wake up in the morning if you're confident and get out of bed ready to go you feel much better about the day. And I think that's one of the problems we've got in New Zealand at the moment there. We've got far too many people in New Zealand who are not confident about where they're going and not confident about what action they should take next to I guess make the right decisions and dictate their futures. If you looked at the topic that Scott Simpson raised just a few minutes ago about the fishing industry in his part of the world the in-shore fishing industry in New Zealand is suffering a serious lack of confidence. The reason they're suffering it is because they have no clear direction from the Government as to where they're going to go with much of their policy around the fishing industry around the protection of dolphins and around the protection of marine areas.It is hugely unsettling for a sector of our community or our economy that contributes greatly to both our food sources and to our export earnings. I think when you go and meet those people you realise what uncertainty does to an industry and what grief it causes those families. I think also Scott Simpson referred to the fact that we need to deal with people rather than things. I think that people are everything as we go. As we promote change in life people are the most important things we can get to and we need to make sure that we deal with those and deal with them effectively.Just before I get to the end of my time I just want to very briefly mention a couple of very successful things in my electorate. One the Massey aviation school opened last week—a project that Steve Maharey has been working on for some years and that the previous Government worked with Massey University on. It's been hugely successful and it will be one of those activities that points to our future.I want to briefly mention also something that's not so successful in my electorate and that's State Highway 4 and the effect on the business in Raetihi of the effective collapse of that road. I think that a serious amount of work needs to be done with that community to find a way forward for them because whilst there's still access to Raetihi what's effectively happened is that the passing traffic has been diverted away from it. And they were hugely reliant on that passing traffic so I feel very sorry for that sector of our community. Thank you Mr Speaker.