Dean Jacqui: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDean Jacqui: General Debate[Sitting date: 25 February 2015. Volume:703;Page:1916. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): I want to start my contribution this afternoon by acknowledging the pain of the Ōāmaru family who lost a daughter—a little 5-year-old girl; a sister she had grandparents—as a result of a fatal accident at Moeraki just south of Ōāmaru. My heart goes out to them. My love and my sympathy are with them. They are a well-known North Otago family. When a tragedy such as a fatal accident such as this one occurs it goes further than just the immediate family—and God knows they are feeling enough pain at this time—it goes right into the local community and even more widely. I just want to say as their local member of Parliament that I am absolutely backing the need for us to make all roads in New Zealand safe for everyone.The Upper Clutha and Otago area is a hot spot for fatalities and serious accidents involving foreign drivers. The impact is felt not just in New Zealand but on the families of the drivers from other countries around the world—the effects are felt there. I want to acknowledge the work already done by this Government and by Government agencies in their efforts to make New Zealand roads and New Zealand driving conditions safer for all drivers. I want to acknowledge the work of Ministers who are very concerned about this issue. I am concerned as the local member of Parliament but I want to acknowledge that they too are concerned and that there is a considerable amount of work going on to see whether we can make conditions for driving better in New Zealand. I want to see more however. I want to see closer attention on what more we can do.Is it that we can put in more yellow lines? Is it as simple as putting in more directional arrows so that when somebody drives out of an intersection they do not find themselves disorientated? If we can do that to make our roads safer for New Zealanders and visitors alike let us do it. Let us just do it. So this Government and this Parliament is not sitting on its hands over this issue. There is a petition sitting before the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee. I know that it has done a lot of work on this issue and that it is about to hear a submission by a petitioner whom I support—young Sean Roberts from Geraldine who lost his father 3 years ago in a motorcycle accident. I supported that petition into Parliament; I sponsored it into Parliament.This Parliament is taking this issue seriously. The select committee is doing something about this issue. I have said this before in contributions in the House but I mean it and I mean it from my heart. I want to see our roads in New Zealand made safe for New Zealanders and visitors alike. On a happier note in the few minutes—Dr David Clark: Why is the Government not acting? Why does it keep delaying?JACQUI DEAN: You see there is a member from Dunedin North who should know better. He should know that this Government has done a significant amount of work on making our roads safer. In the time of the previous Government we did not see directional arrows did we? As an Opposition MP I had to cry against the wind to see whether we could get these basic safety measures in place. That was during the Clark Government. It had 9 years to make our roads safer. It took this Government to put the investment into roading.It took this Government to put the investment into educating our visitors to New Zealand through the Tourism New Zealand website and through information on aeroplanes coming into New Zealand. All these measures have happened under this Government. Although the Opposition can sit back and cry doom I ask those members to look inside their hearts and ask what they did to fix this problem and contrast that with what is happening now. Thank you.