Patterson MarkMARK PATTERSON (NZ First): Well it's a bit of a rarity to be having to sit here and listen to the National Party give us a lecture on flip-flops. The Key Government was noted for its focus groups that would flip-flop at the—[Interruption] Bit of a miss.I'm pleased the member Sarah Dowie raised Southland because there are so many things in Southland that need to be fixed. I'm pleased you raised the $2.4 billion for the Southland Regional Development Strategy. You turned up with $2.4 billion—you turned up with a planeload of Cabinet Ministers with $2.4 billion. We have turned up with $3 billion over three years. We're going to do some real things. We're not going to be running Invermay into the ground. We're not going to be running Telford into the ground. We're not going to sit there while Queenstown has a massive infrastructure deficit and a housing crisis and has got a 13-bed hospital. We're not going to sit around; we're going to do something.Righty-o so I don't want to spend another minute talking about the National Party because it is a seething mess of resentment and denial. What I want to talk about is the great day this is for New Zealand. There were thousands of young men and women that got up this morning to go and pick up their handpiece or milk their cows or to put on the cuffs and get their spray units going in the orchard with some hope. Finally they had a Government that was on their side and not the side of the foreign speculators. I would like to commend my colleagues the Hon David Parker and the Hon Eugenie Sage for the priority they've put round this very very important piece of legislation.I might say following on from the housing situation it is a disgrace what has happened in that as well. If you take away the pathway to young people that's like taking the All Blacks away from rugby—it takes the pinnacle.This is a great decision also because of the family farm. Everything you see in these great cities that we see all the infrastructure we have is built on one single foundation: the family farm. That has sustained us since the Dunedin sailed out of Ōāmaru Harbour in 1877 with our first shipment of frozen meat. So under the previous Government and these liberal foreign ownership rules where we had 465000 hectares sold in 2016 alone—Hon Tracey Martin: 465000?MARK PATTERSON: 465000 hectares. The Overseas Investment Office between 2008 and 2015 had 724 applications for sensitive land of which 11 were turned down—a mere 1.5 percent. That is a wet bus ticket and you should hang your heads in shame over that side for selling out the young generation of New Zealand coming through.We've also seen farm debt balloon as a consequence of opening farming up to the international market. We now have $61 billion of farm debt up from $35 billion when that previous Government was coming into office. The interest alone on that debt is the whole of the beef industry—the revenue from that—just to pay the interest. And of course they're foreign banks as well. That money's heading off to Sydney or Amsterdam.As Mr Key warned us previously we will be tenants in our own land if we keep this up and if that previous Government had got another three years there may have been nothing left at all. Not content with allowing a mass sell-off that Government decided to get in on it itself by selling Landcorp's Jericho Station in Te Ānau—selling our State-owned farms which are owned by the people of New Zealand. An utter disgrace and particularly when the underbidder who was a local farmer was a mere $200000 short. That is how pathetic this previous Government had got.But ladies and gentlemen the cavalry has arrived in the form of this New Zealand First Labour and Green coalition Government. We will put this right and we have put this right today. Thank you.