Lee DeniseDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. I'm thinking I might need to wet my whistle to match the volume of my colleague Andrew Bayly. The truth is I might need a steroid injection to get there. No one can match that volume but of course he's got great content as well—double whammy. Well done to my colleague.I want to start by pointing out in this debate something that the Prime Minister in her speech did not mention—completely left out—and that is laying out her plan for achieving pay equity legislation passing through this year. It didn't get a single mention. Now I don't know if anyone else has brought up this topic but I sure want to bring it up. Perhaps the topic was not raised by her out of sheer embarrassment that women in New Zealand have been completely let down to this point by the Government's incompetence in passing something that has cross-party support—support across all of the House for those who are listening right here—but has not been managed to get through to passing.Now we would like to know here on this side of the House—the bill's ready to go; it's been passed through select committee; I was on that committee—what's happening to it now? It's been left languishing on the Order Paper for nine months since its first reading and passing through the select committee.Where is the progress? The Prime Minister didn't mention it. How important is this topic to this Government? Do we know if it's a priority? Well apparently it's not. Women in New Zealand want to be able to make pay equity claims and make progress on the gender pay gap. Where is the reality? We'd like to see it. As usual the PR spin from the Government hasn't translated to any outcomes and we won't let this one go. We exposed the photo op last time. The first reading had to wait apparently until Suffrage Day. Is that what's happening again this time? They've been caught red-handed the first time waiting for a photo op. Are we going to have that again?Now I also want to raise in my short time another thing that wasn't mentioned in that speech and that's the promise for over two years now that we'll find out what's happening with East-West Link. Now some may know this is a major project that should be happening in my electorate the great Maungakiekie but it's not a local project in its entirety; it's of nationwide significance. That particular area Onehunga and where this roading project needs to go is of $10 billion importance to our GDP—$10 billion. Seven thousand freight vehicles—trucks and the likes—go through that area and congest our local streets. No wonder we have suburban intersections that are congested and some of the most worst and dangerous intersections in all of Auckland if not New Zealand.Congestion costs businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars every year and now we have issues around coronavirus and we have the need to get products on to shelves for instance in a timely manner. Here's one particular instance where that congestion is costing the local economy it's costing the nationwide economy and for two years this Government has said they'd give us a plan. What have we got? Absolutely nothing—absolutely nothing. No plan to get these trucks off our suburban roads and to pay attention to what is a vital part of our economy. That particular industrial area that I referred to the Penrose industrial area is New Zealand's second largest contributor to GDP outside of Auckland's downtown area. So we're not talking about just a local project; we're talking about something that should be top on the priority list. Instead once again we're catching this Government red-handed doing nothing.We won't stand by and watch them idly let this economy slip away on something so obvious as to progress a roading project that's already gone through consenting and is right now passed through the Environmental Protection Authority. We want to see progress from this Government and the Prime Minister on both counts—pay equity and a major road that's absolutely integral to this economy—is silent. We don't think it's good enough.