Marcroft JennyJENNY MARCROFT (NZ First): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker tēnā koe. It is my pleasure to stand and take this split call following on from my colleague Darroch Ball who really has been highlighting the positivity of this side of the House versus the negativity that we're hearing from the other side of this House. And I'd like to begin my contribution today by talking about how in her speech last week the Prime Minister spoke about leadership in this House. And I'll begin with a whakataukī: inā te mahi he rangatira. See how he does—I'll actually translate to see how she does—a leader indeed."You know in today's society a leader is usually identified by the work that they do in promoting the interests and the welfare of the people. And this side of the House this Government this fabulous coalition Government—it is all about focusing on the people and having the people's interests at heart. Leadership to me has two main components and the first component for me is trust—trust that the Government has its people at heart trust that its heart is in the right place. The second most important component of leadership is vision the ability to look into the future and face the challenges squarely rather than pretend that nothing is happening—and we saw that with the National Government where they buried their heads in the sand and they could not even acknowledge that we had a housing crisis. But we are building more houses than any Government has built since the 1970s and that is what leadership looks like. New Zealand First were very proud to be part of this coalition Government and we have a fabulous leader who's also our Deputy Prime Minister and through his leadership let me outline some of the issues that we are focusing on. We have enough problems with possums in this country to know that they are just one example of a good idea that went horribly wrong. Now nobody is happy with the widespread use of 1080. The coalition Government is making great strides though to find more effective predator control solutions that in time we hope will render 1080 redundant. Now for this coalition Government leading and finding alternative solutions to 1080 means that we have to ensure that we can develop new technologies in trapping remote sensing lures and surveillance and also data management technologies. That will also ensure that these great ideas—many are born from sheds and garages around Aotearoa—will come to fruition and there'll be a pathway for those clever inventors to have their product be taken to the market and taken to the world. So that is what it is to be leading in a space where finding alternatives really is the way to ensure that at some point we can look forward to 1080 becoming redundant. There are other ways that New Zealand First has been leading and I'll just go back to what we had been leading on in terms of free doctors visits for our tamariki. We have a proud history of taking care of the health of our tamariki so just last year it was an absolute pleasure to join the Prime Minister along with the Minister of Health Dr David Clark as we announced free doctors visits for under-14s.We're also making sure that we get our hospitals back up to scratch after the last Government failed to do any infrastructure planning for the 600000 - odd new immigrants that formed the basis of their economic plan. We've got some good news coming for women. We're going to get the SuperGold card turbocharged and also too really importantly we will restore the mana of the regions the mana of the people in our regions after a decade of neglect.It was New Zealand First that pushed back against the neo-liberal agenda. That was the "workhouse for the poor" agenda. That was the "law of the jungle" agenda. We have seen that "let them eat cake" mentality in all its various forms and really we have pushed back against that. In the last regime we saw Ministers who were given a hand up by New Zealand's welfare system simply to turn around and pull up the ladder behind them. The rest of society was simply left behind but today it is our responsibility now to ensure the inherent potential of every one is actualised. I'll end on this whakataukī: waiho rā kia tū takitahi ana ngā whetu o te rangi. Let it be one alone that stands among the other stars in the skies."