Bridges SimonGENERAL DEBATEHon SIMON BRIDGES (Minister for Economic Development): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. The last fortnight has given us over the adjournment a foretaste of what a Labour - Green - New Zealand First coalition would look like and it is ferocious. Metiria Turei has said that the New Zealand First Party is racist and Barry Coates—well he will not even go near them—Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. In the interests of exactitude and being only 7 weeks out from the election that Minister should not be allowed to make statements about coalitions that are demonstrably palpably false.Mr SPEAKER: Order! It is a wide-ranging general debate and nothing that the Minister has said so far is at all out of order.Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Let me just be clear for the right honourable member—the last fortnight has given us a foretaste of what a Labour - Green - New Zealand First coalition would look like. What a shambles—what a shambles! Metiria Turei says New Zealand First is racist. Barry Coates will not even go near them. Andrew Little over here says Winston Peters is a blowhard with a big swinging something or other who is leaking against them—who is leaking against them. Winston does not even think Andrew Little is going to make it back into Parliament in the next Parliament and he does not give a rat's derrière what Little thinks in any event. I ask the House: does this sound like a future Government of New Zealand? It sounds like an omnishambles. What an omnishambles we have on the other side of the House.Even if—and it is a very very scary if"—they could work together it would be a collective recipe that would be bad for New Zealand. When we have got employment as high as anywhere in the Western World when we have got unemployment falling and when we have got growth again at the highest levels in the OECD they want a breather. Andrew Little has not even started and he is puffed—he is puffed from what he is doing. They want a breather on the other side. They want to pull the handbrake on New Zealand and on the growth we are seeing.Well on this side of the House we are up for growth. We are up for the exciting vibrant New Zealand that we are seeing at the moment. We are not tired or pessimistic. We are energised by the New Zealand that we see today—a New Zealand where anything is possible for New Zealanders where New Zealanders on the world stage are taking it to the rest of the world and making us proud. There is excitement and innovation happening all over the place. Opportunities are coming from Emirates Team New Zealand—how proud we were—winning the America's Cup and Rocket Lab taking New Zealand to 11th in the world to go into space. We are backing that growth we are providing for it and we are also implementing our plan for New Zealand—our plan to grow the economy and to share the benefits and the dividends—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! The interjection level is now too loud. I am sorry to interrupt the member.Hon SIMON BRIDGES: It is good to see that one member of the Opposition is energised because their leader clearly is not.On this side we are up for that growth. We are growing the economy. We are delivering for New Zealanders benefits and dividends. I think about some of the things that have happened literally this last week. We have confirmed a $230 extra investment in the Kaikōura road. We are able to do that because of the strong—Iain Lees-Galloway: $230?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: You know what I mean—a $230 million investment in upgrading and improving that road which we can do only because the economy is growing. Also in terms of the Manawatū Gorge we have confirmed this week that there will be an improved permanent and much more resilient route for the people of that area. We can invest those hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars—actually billions of dollars—into New Zealand in infrastructure and health and education only because the economy is growing because our plan is working. On this side of the House we are energised. We are up for the growth. We do not want a breather. We do not want to see the shambles of a Labour - Green - New Zealand First Government anytime soon in this country and we will be working hard for New Zealanders to deliver another National Government."