Bennett David: Debate on Crown Entities Public Organisations and State Enterprises — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: Debate on Crown Entities Public Organisations and State Enterprises — In Committee[Sitting date: 14 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:9882. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East):The New Zealand Transport Agency—that is a great one. I wish to start with a speech from last week by a Mr Iain Lees-Galloway the Labour member for Palmerston North. This was a speech that I found very very helpful when writing my column for my local paper. I just want to read to you some of the words that have come from the de facto spokesperson for the left on transport—not the real spokesperson. The real spokesperson is Julie Anne Genter. Mr Iain Lees-Galloway is the puppet of the Green Party in a Labour dress. Congratulations to the Green Party on taking over another major plank of economic policy in transport. It is a shame that the Labour Party had to give up transport as well as economic policy.But listen to these words. These are the words from the spokesperson from the Labour Party: “the National Government’s … determination to waste taxpayers’ money on monster motorways that serve no real purpose”—determination to waste taxpayers’ money on monster motorways that serve no real purpose. I want to see that member and that party come to the Waikato and come to Hamilton and say that. They will not come to Hamilton and say that.Tim Macindoe: You bet they won’t.DAVID BENNETT: You bet they will not as Mr Macindoe says. The next line from Mr Iain Lees-Galloway is that this represents “the 1950s era of sprawl and motorways.” I remember a Labour Party that was proud of its heritage in the 1950s a Labour Party that goes back to its time in the 1950s and talks about how that was the formation of the real Labour Party but we do not see that real Labour Party in here today. It has moved away from its history. It has moved into bed with the Green Party and has forgotten about what it truly represents and that is very sad for Mr Iain Lees-Galloway.But there is more. There is more in this speech from Mr Iain Lees-Galloway that really defines Labour Party policy. Another line: “so that it can pay for its unaffordable monster motorways—its roads of national significance.” It says here: “this Government does not believe in different modes of transport; it believes there is only one way to move people and freight around New Zealand and that is cars and trucks.” That is simply not true. We have the KiwiRail Turnaround Plan. The future of rail is in freight in places like Hamilton. When you look at that freight development in Hamilton it shows a true future for rail. If you look at rail in Auckland the investment that the National Government has made into rail in Auckland it is something that we should be very proud of.But there is more—there is more. This is the best line. This is the line that I think he must have taken all day to think of: “Well we know that the least sustainable form of transport is the car especially the car carrying a single occupant.” This is the member from Palmerston North who is saying that the least sustainable form of transport is the car and that is a shame. It is a shame for a member of this Parliament to say things like that. When we look further we see that he calls it “ideological madness” a “fossilised approach” a “1950s vision of transport”. That is the Labour Party policy. It does not want the roads of national significance. For everybody in New Zealand—from the far north where the roads of national significance give a hope of a lifeline for that economy of the far north to the people of the Waikato which produces most of the exports of New Zealand—the roads of national significance are seen as very important and to the people of Auckland who have gained from the roads of national significance in the last few years. The Labour Party does not believe in that. It does not believe in the golden economic triangle of Auckland Hamilton and Tauranga. It does not believe in that economic growth heartland of New Zealand going forward. The Labour Party has been consigned to the policies of Julie Anne Genter. The Labour Party will follow Julie Anne Genter through the trenches and blindly follow their approach for rail.Andrew Little: What are you going to do with State Highway 3?DAVID BENNETT: There we have Andrew Little the man from New Plymouth. Andrew Little was the next Labour speaker after Iain Lees-Galloway and his whole speech was about how he wants State Highway 3 to be developed.