Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (Minister of Veterans' Affairs): I am going to tell you what they are going to do for Victor: the Labour Party is going to destroy the New Zealand economy.The first thing that we see today in Labour's water policy—I want to see that member Kelvin Davis go to Ngāi Tahu who are doing a major investment with irrigation in the North of Canterbury and tell them that they cannot do that anymore. That is what you did today. The Ngāi Tahu development is closed. It is gone. It cannot happen under Labour. What about your Māori caucus with that? What about going around the rest of the country and telling the farmers that they cannot produce; that they have to cut down the number of stock on a property; and that as the Minister said they have to fence inordinate lengths and they have to re-fence? Go to all those sheep and beef farms in Northland and tell them that they have got to fence every little waterway. I would love to see you do that mate because you would last about 2 minutes with them.And with your mates over here—New Zealand First—this guy here Mr Winston Peters has been going around the country saying that he is going to stop these plans around water. He is going to stop this. He has been going to Waikato. His very candidate from the Waikato stood in the regional council against plans that are half as bad as Labour's. Come on Winston. Stand up and tell the truth about what you actually want to do.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I know that there is a reason why that member is infringing against parliamentary rules; it is because he is going to go shortly but he cannot get away with it now.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: You cannot get away with making a point of order like that but I assume the point of order you are wanting to make is that he has to refer to a member correctly.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Precisely.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: The point of order is very well made. The member will refer to members with the correct intitule.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Let us have a look at this policy. This policy says—Hon Member: Unpick it.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Yes. Look at the policy—irrigation of farms.Sue Moroney: Are you worried about the famers' vote? Is that going out too?Hon DAVID BENNETT: I will come to that Sue Moroney. Irrigation of farms—what about farmers who have bore water out in the Waikato? Do they have to pay for the bore water? We do not know. How about horticulturalists? Do they have to pay? We do not know. How about businesses that use water like the breweries or any of those kinds of businesses that use large amounts of water for their production? Do they have to pay? Do dams have to pay? Apparently not. Do cities have to pay? Does Auckland have to pay the Waikato for our water? I reckon that is what the Labour Party is wanting to do but it is not actually going to do it because it knows it cannot do that.The leader of the Labour Party was on TV this week and she said that it has to be a consistent policy. There is no consistency in this policy. It is a deliberate attack on farming communities the productive heart of this country and it will ruin this country—and it cannot happen. In the Waikato there have been a number of proposals to do this through the regional council and it has taken an 80-year plan. The Labour Party intends to do a lot more than that in one generation. In one generation the Labour Party wants to clean up every river in New Zealand. That is not possible in the plan that this country has got through our regional councils. Work needs to be done in that area; nobody disputes that. We need to work on our water quality but we cannot do that at the expense of our productive sector in one fell swoop. That is a deliberate and prolonged attack on the dairy sector and other sectors in the New Zealand economy.This shows the true colours of the leader of the Labour Party. The leader of the Labour Party is not a moderate Labour person. She will want to be seen on TV as the smiley moderate person. The leader of the Labour Party is actually a Green Party member. The leader of the Labour Party is taking Green transport policy and Green water policy and that is the real nature of what we are seeing in this House today. This is a deliberate attack on New Zealand farmers and it should not go ahead and it will be stopped at the ballot box because people know that.The Labour Party is saying: Trust us. We'll negotiate after the election. We'll work out the price. We'll work out the distance. Come and talk to us. We'll be there." There is no way that it will do that. The Labour Party will screw every New Zealand farmer when it has got a chance—that is its history. It will do that after the election and the farmers will have no power when they walk into the room and try to negotiate.Remember what we are saying here if you are in the New Zealand agriculture business; if you are in the New Zealand downstream businesses in every little town through this country; if you are in every provincial city that relies on agriculture for its base; and if you are in every major city that relies on exports coming from our agriculture—Labour will kill this industry. It will kill New Zealand. And Labour will not be allowed to get away with it because the public out there will stop it on 23 September.We cannot have this attack on the productive heart of New Zealand. It will take away jobs. It will take opportunities and it will take away the future of New Zealand. And shame on all that side of the House who are going to stand behind it and let it happen. Thank you."