Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Well that will be the Rt Hon Winston Peters' valedictory. And what a great valedictory it was going out the same way he has spent his political career: fabricating things alleging things without foundation. And the classic is always this: will Mr Peters repeat those statements outside this Chamber? And the question will be whether or not he's prepared to walk out on to the black and white tiles and mention all the names—my dad and David Seymour and Rachel Morton and all the rest of them. Will he say it? My pick is he won't because it's all very well to come in here and talk about the ferries in the 1970s and use privilege. It's all very well to use that but actually parliamentary privilege is a privilege. It's called a privilege. It's not something that can be used to deflect from real issues. We know why it's come about today in the general debate. The tried and true Mr Peters' formula of turning up and reading out a long list of things under privilege and making sure that the media will speculate about it—we all know why it's happened. It's because of the Antarctica New Zealand story that broke this morning on Radio New Zealand (RNZ). It's as clear as day. Forty years he's been doing this and he will continue to do it for as long as he's in this Parliament and I for one hope that the good voters of New Zealand follow the voters of Tauranga and the voters of Northland at the 2017 election—Hon Tim Macindoe: And Hunua.CHRIS BISHOP: —and Hunua all the way before that as Mr Macindoe reminds me and cast him into political irrelevance.That's what we hope they do—and they'll have an opportunity to do it on 19 September—because the Antarctica story that's broken this morning on RNZ is very damaging. Of course it is. Good friends" in the words of the people who went to Antarctica at the insistence of the Deputy Prime Minister's office—or the Minister of Foreign Affairs—on a trip to Antarctica when there was only one space available and two were insistent on going and the Prime Minister said today in Parliament they didn't go at anyone's expense. I know for a fact there are people lining up around the corridors all the way around the Beehive and up Molesworth Street to go on those trips because it is Antarctica and they are a rare and precious thing and they're extremely expensive. So this idea that no they didn't go at anyone's expense is a complete fiction. Of course they did. So that was a wonderful valedictory by the Rt Hon Winston Peters.But I want to talk in my remarks about transport because what our leader Judith Collins announced on Friday was a transformational package for the upper North Island: a 20-year vision for transport in the upper North Island decongesting our city and building expressways to Northland—that's all the way to Northland and to Tauranga. And Grant Robertson said "Well if that's all you've got—if all you've got is a vision you know I'd like to see what's coming." Well it's better to have a 20-year vision than to not have one. And it's deeply ironic when the one criticism that could be levelled at this Government is that they are all about vision and they're all about good intentions. In fact the one thing the Prime Minister's got going for her is at least she talks about good intentions and talks about good outcomes. So it's richly ironic for Grant Robertson to critique a vision. But it's not just a vision. It's a costed 10-year plan a transformational project for the upper North Island: a four-lane expressway between the Far North and Tauranga. And we now know from Megan Woods' remarks in Parliament this afternoon and Grant Robertson's increasingly incoherent press releases on the weekend—I think there were three of them in response to our statement; not interestingly by the actual Minister of Transport Phil Twyford. He was persona non grata. Like everything else in this Government it was delegated to the one vaguely competent Minister Grant Robertson to respond albeit incoherently on the weekend. We now know that the Labour Party is opposed to four-laning the road between Whangārei and Tauranga connecting and bringing together some of our largest cities—2.5 million people to make it into a dynamic and economically prosperous region. And we're going to complete the Auckland Rapid Transit Network in Auckland. We're going to build busways. We're going to build rail to Auckland Airport which Mr Peters claims to support. What's their bizarre critique of this? "You're letting the New Zealand Transport Agency borrow against their revenue." You can't do that apparently even though the Government's doing that with Kāinga Ora; it's exactly the same model. Then they say "Oh you're stealing from the multi-year capital allowances in 2026."—six years away. There's two elections before then. And then they say "You're stealing from the COVID fund." The COVID fund was set up for economic stimulus into infrastructure over the medium term in order to get jobs and growth going. So it's a very worthwhile use of the money and we stand behind it."