Penk ChrisCHRIS PENK (National—Kaipara ki Mahurangi): Thank you Mr Speaker. I want to talk about cyclone recovery. The cyclone-hit communities of New Zealand want to talk about cyclone recovery and they want the Government to talk about cyclone recovery. But they'd much prefer for the Government to actually do something about cyclone recovery because the Government can do almost anything but it has chosen so far to do almost nothing.And when I say the Government can do almost anything I refer to the fact that in this House the Labour Government with the support of the National Party on the bill itself and including as to process supported legislation that would give very broad-ranging powers to the Government to change all kinds of primary legislation—all kinds of laws to sweep aside the red tape to reduce the bureaucracy to allow solutions to be made for cyclone-hit areas of this country. And as at last night when I last checked the relevant website there had been no such Orders in Council produced by the Government all these weeks later. Hon Louise Upston: Not any?CHRIS PENK: That's right the Hon Louise Upston. I confirm for you today: none whatsoever. So it's the lack of action but it's also the lack of clarity; it's the lack of transparency. There have been instances of Government support announced and that's been welcome—quite rightly so—from the community right up until the point in which it becomes clear that actually the delivery of that which has been announced hasn't been forthcoming. There's been a lack of criteria a lack of clarity about who it is within the communities for example of Hawke's Bay and surrounding regions—Gisborne likewise and other areas will have been the same—with chambers of commerce given money by central government asked to distribute it but without any kind of clarity about where it should go. And the sad thing is that has caused angst locally. It's put those chambers of commerce in a difficult position to be passing to their members and non-members alike amounts that they deem to be appropriate on the vaguest of criteria. Naturally there is resentment naturally there are shortfalls and naturally people are asking for answers. They're asking for support not just in the announcement but actually in the delivery and in the certain delivery at that.The mental wellbeing of those in cyclone-hit communities is deteriorating. I don't wish to make this a partisan political point and so far we have been very supportive as an Opposition on measures that the Government has taken in good faith to improve the wellbeing and the lives of people in cyclone-hit areas. But we cannot ignore the fact that communities on the ground whether that's individual households or businesses are so badly affected and now with more than 11 weeks having passed with so little certainty so little to hang their hat on so little on which to make decisions for their future going forward they are feeling severe mental strain. The cracks are showing and it is desperately urgent that these people receive the support that they deserve from the Government that they have supported through their payment of taxes in good faith all these years. They deserve that help now. It is now time for the Government to step up and give that. Yesterday we saw the release of the report by Boston Consulting Group in relation to horticulture in the Hawke's Bay. I emphasise it's in that region alone—obviously hugely significant for that region a major part of their regional economy but with effects that will be felt for New Zealand Inc." as well as very broadly in those communities. Not just the growers themselves of course but the workers the suppliers all the local economy that's intricately connected with the successful operation of those businesses. And that's of course before you start talking about the horticulture affected in other areas of New Zealand be it Gisborne Coromandel Northland and so on—Auckland too including my own electorate of Kaipara ki Mahurangi. Without the decision-making certainty about whether land will be commercially viable whether it can be used for certain purposes not only are the weeks and months of inaction costing the ability to clear the land but actually for planting decisions now that will bear fruit quite literally in a year's time or a bit under a year. These decisions are time critical. These decisions must be made by Government. They must rule in or out certain areas as soon as possible so that the people on the ground can do what they need to do in order to make the planting decisions to actually get on and do it because otherwise we are staring down the barrel of for example in horticulture within the Hawke's Bay region $3.5 billion between 2024 and 2030. So we need these decisions to be made.The lack of representation through ministerial leads in the area with the demise in a ministerial sense of Stuart Nash and Meka Whaitiri isn't helping. National Party candidates and members are advocating the Government needs to get on and make these decisions."