O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Just as I sit here waiting for that last speaker to finish he talked a lot about letters he talked a lot about the letter F. I'm not sure if it's parliamentary to sit here thinking I wonder if some French letters had been used more prudently in the past whether"—SPEAKER: No no; it's not in good taste.GREG O'CONNOR: All right sorry Mr Speaker. I'll get back to my general debate speech if I can. I've had in the past in my profession different things and one of the things I did do was I taught detectives trained detectives in how to do inquiries. One of the things I always sent them away with was the ABC of investigation. The ABC of investigation says "Accept nothing believe no one and corroborate everything." That's why when you come into Government you need to ensure that the decisions you are making are based on facts are based on a position reached through good inquiry. It's what we do it's what we should do and that's what we've done in this case. That's why I'm very pleased to see today that the debate is around the petrol price because there's been speculation—several speakers today have talked about what happened at select committees various decisions made various letters written—about why or whether New Zealand petrol prices were higher than they should be speculation about whether New Zealanders were paying more than they should. Well as a result of the application of the ABC we now have a report a good report which says that we are and based on that report we're going to do something about it. That's the way good Government should be.I love the old Māori proverb; you know the kumara never speaks of its sweetness. I look at what it means to be part of a progressive Government. Now we don't need to sit here necessarily and talk about what we're going to do. We don't actually even need to talk about what we've done. It's what we actually are doing that matters. Now progressive Government—progressive—people talk about progressive Governments. It's something of a bit of a political tragic term I think. It's something that people look back in history and say "That was a progressive Government—that was a progressive Government." If we look at ultimately one of the most progressive Governments in this country after perhaps Richard John Seddon's it was of course the late 1930s—our own Michael Joseph Savage that Government. We look at the Government of Norman Kirk. We look at the Governments going through to the Lange Government. We look at the Government of Helen Clark. It's looking back and we see the changes that were made at that time.I mean just for those who haven't got a sense of recent history; you know KiwiSaver Kiwibank. They are now two things. They are progressive. They're things that have been done that we'll look back and say "Boy they were things the Government did." Change in education change in social housing change in welfare—they're all things that members opposite either directly or through their parentage grandparents and certainly around this side of House have all benefited from. That's what a progressive Government does.I stand here as a new member of this Labour Government led by the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern. I'm absolutely confident that all of our descendants all of those who come after us as politicians as our children will look back on this Government and say that this was a progressive Government. Again we don't need to stand and speak of that although of course in the modern world we have to counter much of what is spoken about on the Opposition benches. But actually it's what they say it's actually what is criticised that actually gives life. That is the sweetness of our kumara because even today—I mean I go back to what I said at the start about something as simple as petrol prices something that's been hovering around something we've known and we have known. No one will be surprised at what they saw in that report. But again we're actually going to be in a position now to do something about it.The mere fact that that has been criticised on the other side the mere fact that—I actually nearly drove off the road when I heard what the Leader of the Opposition was saying on National Radio this morning about the petrol prices. I really could not believe what he admitted to when he saw and he knew exactly what the problem was but didn't take the time to ABC. He didn't accept nothing he didn't believe nothing and he didn't corroborate everything because had he he wouldn't have been saying what he said on the radio this morning. He would have then done what this very progressive Government is now going to do. Thank you."