Allan KiritapuKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): Well the Opposition is having a hard day over there. They're having a hard time and they are angry and they are sad. They are trying to put it on this side of the House for being woeful and neglectful for X Y and Z but I have to say that it is because of their own incompetence for nine long years of having absolute disregard for the people of communities like mine Tai Rāwhiti where that fine member that just spoke prior Jo Hayes says she is proudly from. Well Te Tai Rāwhiti is the first place in the world to see the sun but the sun didn't shine while the previous Government was in. But you know what they're saying out there on the streets in Gisborne? They are saying that they feel like there is a real sense of partnership. I heard that from a paid-up Tory party member. He came to me and he said I had no idea that this is what true partnership"—and he's a real community leader up there in Gisborne—"and absolute partnership feels like when a Government hears you and when they work alongside you."As we can demonstrate the $153 million announcement—that came as a consequence of what we refer to as the "coalition Bible" our coalition agreement. In that coalition agreement what does it say? What did it do? It said that we will prioritise the regions through 3 billion bucks. The "First Citizen of the Province" the Hon Shane Jones—not to be known as "Matua Shane" but as the Hon Shane Jones—is going out there and listening to people along this side of the House and that side of the House. The leaders in our communities—they're feeling heard and they're feeling seen. So that takes us to our next point.There's a real momentum. There's a momentum out there guys. There's a momentum. You know how we know that? It's because it's not just our own that are saying that—it ain't just our own; it's your fullas' guys. It's the old hashtag—the right honourable Simon Bridges. Save Simon; he's a fantastic leader. I couldn't applaud him more because his analysis is spot on. There is a real momentum that is coming from this side of the House and our Government—kudos to him. So where is that momentum? That momentum as I've said is being felt out there in the regions. When we came in there was a -2.9 percent of the proportion of the total economic output for the regions. Right now like I said 3 billion bucks is being invested all throughout those places that didn't feel the sunshine. But where else is it being felt?Now the member opposite me right now she's a fantastic woman Barbara Kuriger. She will know this because she is a leader within her community out there in the regions. Now she will know that in the primary sector there is a real warmth and there is a momentum for what this side of the House is doing in the primary industries. Now there was a commitment when we came in and that was right in quite a tumultuous time. It was the seeds of an outbreak a biosecurity outbreak the causes of which we don't need to go into. But what there was was that for many families up and down this country they were enduring an outbreak of M. bovis and what did this side of the House have to do? Very very quickly it had to sit down alongside a lot of folks who didn't really believe that we were going to walk alongside them as communities and we did just that—leaders within the industries; we walked alongside families out there in the streets. You had the Prime Minister and you had Ministers out there meeting with families to ensure that we could come up with a regime that would ensure that we got through that M. bovis outbreak and that was one of the most tumultuous things that we could've come into straight away.What else have we been doing out there in the primary industries? Well we've launched the Sustainable Food & Fibre Futures programme. That has been received exceptionally well across both sides of the House and I know that the member across the pathway Barbara Kuriger knows that as well. I mean it's got to be said: probably the biggest achievement that we can say on this side of the House when we're looking at economic growth in this year when we're looking at a 3.7 percent unemployment rate and we look at the kids that are going into new industries like forestry because we're planting 1 billion trees over the next decade—and I think we're up to about 70 million or something like that. The tree-counter is on. The sun is shining and there is momentum on the streets. Hear hear!"