Strange JamieJAMIE STRANGE (Labour): Fakaalofa lahi atu Madam Speaker. What a bunch of whingers we have on the other side. They're whingeing whingeing on. When my children whinge this is what I say to them—I say Solve your problem." I say "What's your idea?" And I've been listening very carefully to this debate and I've been listening for some ideas from the Opposition. I haven't heard one idea. We acknowledge—we acknowledge—there are some challenges in health housing and education. They've built up quite clearly over the past nine years but the previous Government want to hark back to yesterday the past nine years. Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away But now I know they're here to stay. We're living in today and today we are addressing some of those challenges. We have ideas and we have action and I'm just going to list some of the things that we are doing because I've heard no ideas in this debate from the Opposition. The first aspect I'd like to touch on is mental health. This Government invested $1.9 billion into mental health. We'd heard for a long time that there are big challenges in mental health—areas like youth suicide; areas like some of the challenges in the workplace the lack of productivity; areas in our schools. We've invested $1.9 billion. We're moving to a space where someone will be able to walk into a GP clinic anywhere in New Zealand whether it's urban or rural they will see their GP the GP will recognise there's some mental health challenges and they will literally walk them down the corridor to get that help and that support right there and then. We've started that process. We're investing in the Taranaki hospital $300 million for a capital project there; Dunedin Hospital $1 billion. We're investing in Middlemore and there's further announcements to come over the next month in the health area. So we're investing in health. The health sector was run down—it was run down over nine years and we are reinvesting in that.Another aspect is around transport. We're investing in a diverse transport network that has the balance right between road and rail. We're investing record amounts in roads. We're investing in road safety. We're investing in new roads. Let me give you an example in Hamilton: a $110 million project in Hamilton with a bridge and road into Peacocke. At the same time we're investing in rail up to Auckland $80 million to link the labour markets between the Waikato region and the Auckland region—linking those labour markets—and it's been very well received by businesses.We're investing $1 billion into rail. I recently visited the Hutt workshops and they're full steam ahead—Chris Bishop: Oh great place.JAMIE STRANGE: —full steam ahead. Nice area I acknowledge that. Nice area of the country but we've got an industry there that hasn't had the investment that it has deserved over many years—and I acknowledge from various Governments. But this Government is investing in rail and that's been incredibly well received across the country as we roll that out and as we scale up.Just in the Waikato region we've got a local construction company with 37 builds on at the moment all $2 million and up. So there's lots of activity happening.I'd just like to link that into the regions. The Provincial Growth Fund is making a big difference in the regions. What we have is—for the first time in a long time—people in the regions and they're starting to lift their head up and they're saying "We have a Government who are taking notice of us in the regions" and they're getting business cases together they're working together they're collaborating and they're working with their councils. The Opposition rally against the Provincial Growth Fund but in their electorates they love the Provincial Growth Fund—they love the Provincial Growth Fund. Their mayors like the Provincial Growth Fund. They even turn out to some of the announcements of the Provincial Growth Fund because they acknowledge that this is an absolutely fantastic targeted investment in the region.There's so much we can talk about but I think I'll finish with the economy. Under the previous Labour Government we ran nine years of surpluses paid down net debt to almost zero started the super fund and started KiwiSaver. This Government—this coalition Government—is carrying on a similar sort of trend around economic growth and around running surpluses. Our growth is 2.5 percent—that's higher than Australia the UK Canada and the US—and we're doing that in spite of global headwinds particularly in the areas of trade.This is a Government that is delivering and I'm proud to be a part of it. Thank you."