Scott Alastair: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeScott Alastair: General Debate[Sitting date: 11 November 2015. Volume:710;Page:7904. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa): I am very pleased to hear that Mr Lees-Galloway is on a high. I am not sure what sorts of drugs he has been on but he has been taking an overdose because we have heard from the Leader of the Opposition the deputy leader and now Mr Lees-Galloway and we have not heard a single policy. I mean what conference did they go to? There was no conference there were no ideas there were no fresh ideas—except that they have dropped the capital gains tax and they have gone away with this silly Marxist idea of a centralised electricity buying and selling platform. Those are the only two things that they came out with over a whole weekend of coffee drinking bar cruising and drug taking. I would like to suggest that the jobs that they want to be created are being created. There have been over 200000 new jobs created under this Governmentin the past 4 years.As for regional New Zealand I can tell you that my electorate is doing very well—very very well. Carterton is one of the fastest-growing towns in the country. Masterton has had a GDP growth of 6 percent in the past 12 months. Aucklanders are thriving. Aucklanders are coming Aucklanders are visiting us and they are staying in the beautiful place that is the Wairarapa. Regional New Zealand is doing well. Masterton is one of seven towns that are 100 percent rolled-out with ultra-fast broadband. This ultra-fast broadband stuff connects people with the world. Infrastructure between Wellington and Masterton allows Wellingtonians to live in the beautiful Wairarapa and work in Wellington. This is good for the regional economy of the Wairarapa.Loan-to-value ratios are another thing that have helped regional New Zealand encouraging people to borrow and build houses in the Wairarapa as opposed to Auckland. The signals are working. People are moving from Auckland and they are coming to the Wairarapa to live to set up their businesses and to raise their families. Immigration credits also favour regional New Zealand. An immigrant applying to come to New Zealand is treated more favourably if they choose to live outside Auckland. Our other towns in the Wairarapa are well on the way to pitching for the second round of ultra-fast broadband including Martinborough Greytown and Carterton—Waipukurau and Dannevirke amongst them. Last summer regional Wairarapa had record numbers of tourists—record numbers.Across the country we have fewer people not in education tertiary education or employment. The lowest number ever. This effects regional New Zealand. Tonight I am going to be going to the Copthorne Hotel and Resort Solway Park Wairarapa to award people from the Wairarapa with apprenticeship and industry training awards. Those trainees and those apprentices are being supported by National Party policy supporting 20000 new apprentices across the country. These people are the future of the Wairarapa; these people are the future of New Zealand. These will be the future leaders in our industries and our trades.Wairarapa is an older electorate. We are overweighted in superannuitants and since 2008 superannuation has gone up by 31 percent—inflation comparatively by 15.3 percent. You heard Minister English say those numbers this afternoon. This is the policy that supports regional New Zealand. I could talk about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I am waiting for these guys to support it because that is the fundamental policy that will support the regions. That is the fundamental difference between this side of the House and that side; we support jobs in the regions we support a growing economy we support families and we will be here for a very long time to come.