Naylor Jono: Debate on Prime Minister’s StatementText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNaylor Jono: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement[Sitting date: 01 March 2016. Volume:711;Page:9255. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONO NAYLOR (National): It is a real pleasure for me to rise in support of the Prime Minister’s statement which will be of no surprise to the House. It has been an interesting debate thus far. A comment that I heard from the other side of the House referred to the thinness of this statement. I thought it was only appropriate for me to go back and have a look. I suppose from a distance this does look like a rather thin document but when I looked at it it has got quite small type to be honest. But it is 10 pages long and on average there are about 10 paragraphs per page.There are a hundred—at least—different things that this Government proposes to do over the next year. This is not a tired Government; this is not a Government that in its third term is running out of ideas. This is a Government that is working hard for all New Zealanders. It is working hard to ensure that New Zealand is the kind of place that we all want to live in.I am proud to be associated with a Government that puts people and families first. This is a Government that over this time period has increased the minimum wage—as the Minister of Finance said today—I think by 27 percent while inflation has been only 11 percent over that time period. There have been significant increases in minimum wages. We are increasing the amount of paid parental leave and we have decreased ACC levies. We have been the first Government in 43 years—43 years—to actually put up the real amounts of benefits to families with children.This is a Government that puts jobs the economy and increasing opportunities at the centre of economic development. We are moving forward; we are moving on with new ideas. We are taking an innovative approach to solving some age-old problems over this time period over recent times and we are going to continue to do this as outlined in the Prime Minister’s statement. We are going to continue our investment approach to public services.This is a Government that cares enough about the poor of our communities those who are most vulnerable in our communities to ensure that we are looking at the causes of those things that will potentially lead them into long-term benefit dependency and other things. If we just simply say we are going to throw money at this or we are going to continue doing things the way we have always done and somehow expect to get a different result we will be fooling ourselves. And so what we are doing is ensuring that we take innovative approaches an investment approach to ensure that those people who are at most risk of long-term welfare dependency who are at most risk of suffering harm those who are at most risk of not achieving educational standards—we are going to provide better more targeted services to them to ensure that their needs are met.We are doing it through the social housing reforms. We were debating them last week. It was good to see some of those bits of legislation go through that will ensure we can provide better social housing for our people—that we are not sitting back and simply saying that because someone came up with an idea in the 1930s that that is the only good idea you could ever have about social housing. No—we are moving forward we are trying to be innovative and we are looking for new ways to do even better things for the people of New Zealand. But this document is I think particularly good because it is not a narrow-focused document. The Prime Minister’s statement to Parliament for this year is wide ranging.I have just talked about our social investment strategy. We are also committed to the regions of New Zealand. We are committed to a regional growth programme. We have seen regional growth studies across a number of communities in New Zealand and that is going to keep happening to others as well. This is about setting a blueprint for regional development and regional growth. I am privileged to live in a community where we can take by-products from animal slaughter and turn them into pharmaceutical products—it is fantastic to see the innovation that is happening there—that can take New Zealand’s pāua crop the majority of it and can it and export it to places around the world.We are moving forward economically we are moving forward socially and we are moving forward environmentally. We are committed as a party to continue to clean up New Zealand’s rivers. That is why we have got our new freshwater consultation document out. There has been great work done I know in my own backyard in the Manawatū where $5.2 million from the Fresh Start for Fresh Water Clean-up Fund has been invested. The community is working together alongside the Government to clean up the Manawatū River. We know that the progress is slow in these areas but we are going to see progress. This is a great statement from our Prime Minister it outlines exactly what we want to do over the next year and it will be better for New Zealand.