Eagle PaulPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you Madam Chair and it's a pleasure to be speaking on these the Estimates. I've been a member a former deputy chair of the Economic Development Science and Innovation Committee and it is a good committee but I prefer my time on the Transport and Infrastructure Committee. It's certainly a hard-working committee and it's got—I see the chair's not here but I'll mention Darroch Ball for his leadership and the work that he's putting together on the agenda which is the coalition Government's agenda where we are tackling the big long-term issues. He's doing a good job at that. Look a previous speaker spoke about the Commerce Commission and those on the other side got quite like That's our work. We did all that work around petrol." The reality is that that report that work had not even been introduced into this House—that's a fact. But I digress and I want to focus on a more important issue and again a colleague here talked about the establishment of the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission / Te Waihanga. That brings back memories good memories of the Ministry of Works where we had one single ministry. People laugh—people laugh—but we've spent 29 years since that disestablishment with a poor apprenticeship scheme—disestablished actually by the other side because we were told that privatisation of this workforce was going to be our saviour. In fact in local government I remember somebody telling me that there won't even be a rates rise on anything to do with roads—that side's passion—because the private sector's going to look after us.Twenty-nine years later what a shemozzle we've been left with after nine years' worth of neglect. So luckily we've pulled this together and said "Let's set this commission up. Let's get those projects working into a pipeline because that's what the Ministry of Works used to do." When I spoke on this I gave one example in my electorate around the Chatham Islands—a real victim of having no pipeline and a piecemeal approach. This is going to be the solution in terms of bringing local and central government together with the private sector to fix some of these things that have been the result of hoping that the private sector will fix it. It hasn't. This will and this will be a big step towards achieving that.I want to say as a member of the Transport and Infrastructure Committee we heard from our two Ministers: the Hon Phil Twyford and the Hon Julie Anne Genter as the Associate Minister. I have to say this: the members on the other side were quite complementary. They were quite good. We heard about our rail investment—not too many fusses around that. In fact there were lots of nods particularly around the City Rail Link. On road safety—in terms of the prioritisation for this Government and where we are heading—there wasn't a bad word. Unless people were at a different committee to me it was a positive response.When I look back to the work that was done on the GPS—and it went live on 1 July last year—this Government's priorities and the transformation of that plan and the signals that we were sending they got the thumbs up. They got a green tick around making sure that we had a safer transport system free of death and injury accessible and affordable transport reduced emissions and of course value for money. I think there's no better example than the announcement earlier in this year in mid-May around Let's Get Wellington Moving. It's a great title because it sat there for nearly a decade—Stuart Smith: Release the letter Paul.PAUL EAGLE: —nearly a decade. I'm not getting into letters. The only letter I like is a green one and it's got a light on it saying "We got the tick." That's all I need to see because after a decade of delay on this side of the House I know that my young boy will be able to catch light rail to get around and to enjoy a second tunnel at some point within the next decade and Wellingtonians are going to be very very happy with this side of the House."