Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's actually a pleasure to stand up here on this side of the House and represent the dairy industry and I wasn't overly impressed with the comment from the last speaker Julie Anne Genter that this party over-represented the dairy industry. We represent all industries because we're a go-forward party that actually like people to do well in business.This morning I was down at the Dairy Environment Leaders' Forum. It's a great group of people. They get their heads together and they are showing some leadership in the dairy industry about how to approach some of their issues. And I was very pleased to tell them when I was down there this morning that Mr Ron Mark stood up in the Address in Reply debate when he gave his leader's speech and said that the farmer in Southland was just as important as the person who was running a business in Queen Street. I want to commend that party for that comment.I was also asked as to what I thought this new Government might mean and I said that well actually it's quite interesting for me to work out what this new Government might mean because I might be able to tell you what some of the things that New Zealand First stand for are I might be able to tell you some of the Labour policies and I might be to tell you some of the Green policies but when we make that connection and put them all together I'm not quite sure—when we see this 100-day plan—exactly what it means.Darroch Ball: You get MMP. You get an MMP GovernmentBARBARA KURIGER: Actually Mr Ball I don't think you know what it means either by the comment that you made before about the fact that there's a two-party coalition—yes but you need three parties to vote to get that Government. So you're actually almost discounting it. It's interesting the distance between your party and the Green Party.I was very impressed this morning because that Dairy Environment Leaders' Forum are in the process of making some fantastic videos. We talk a lot about water storage and we talk a lot about irrigation and unfortunately some parties in this Parliament think that irrigation is only for the farmers. Well actually the first step in taking irrigation is to make sure before they take it that the fish flow is accounted for. Actually there are parts in this country where water is being used from storage systems to supplement that fish life. So we don't have a water shortage problem in this country; we have a water storage problem in this country and we need to get wise—Hon Chris Hipkins: Water quality problem.BARBARA KURIGER: Well actually water storage can help quality. So let's just not let over 96 percent of it run out to sea; let's be a wise nation and do it and use it and use it well.Now the second thing I actually want to get onto is that down there we talk a lot about skills and trades and I just heard from Jenny Salesa that no matter where people live this current Government is going to deliver skills and trades. My fear and I'll say it right now—and I've had a whole lot of people say to me Why is the first year of education free? Let people prove that they're going to do something."—is that in electorates like the one I represent it's going to encourage more people to go up and fill the universities and we're going to be left with a shortage of people to stay and do the skills and trades. I know that promise is there and I've heard it today about funding all sorts of tertiary education but the reality is that at some point those students have to be able to travel to that destination to get whatever sort of qualification it is. So I'm going to be keeping a real close eye on that as spokesperson for rural communities because I want the students that choose to live and work and get trades in rural communities to have an equal and fair chance.I'm one of those people that believe that not all the answers are in Wellington—in fact 90 percent of them are in the community. Today I had a visit from a wonderful young group and seeing that it was general debate I said to them I would give them a mention. It was Jay and his friends from Tumekē Clothing. They are a Young Enterprise Scheme group and they had decided there's so many of us—you know in Wellington we talk about lots of stuff but it's the people in the community that do it. They have developed these fantastic T-shirts as part of their Young Enterprise scheme and they're about getting Te Reo up and running. They're in Wellington tonight and I want to commend Jay and that team because I think that's a fantastic initiative. I've supported three other Young Enterprise teams in my own electorate and there are a lot of good young people out there and we need to give them the best opportunities.So with that I want to say thank you for the opportunity. Thank you."