McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): I do not often get the opportunity to get this far up the speaking list but I certainly have never heard a more interesting speech than that one. For that speech to come from a person Grant Robertson who has been through more leadership contests than I have had hot meals is pretty extraordinary I think. We have an expert in the matter speaking to us on that issue so we would have to take a little bit of notice of him because he has been beaten only three times! He is well practised. But it was an interesting speech and of course the statistics he was quoting about one of the candidates—Labour does not even poll that much.Anyway back on to the real issues of the day. I want to take a very brief time to acknowledge the Prime Minister who is about to take leave of this House. I came into Parliament in 2011—like many of us who have been in the real world not really knowing what I was coming to. I came into a place where we had a leader who I think was extraordinary. I will say no more about him because I do not think he needs any more said about him. I think it has been an extraordinary time for New Zealand under his leadership.I want to make another comment about leadership which James Shaw led off with. I have noticed that anyone who leads by being up front and showing the way very seldom looks behind themselves and often those kinds of leaders find a massive gap behind them. We saw one in this House not that many years ago. When she left there was a massive gap behind her. I think leadership is much more about enabling people around you to perform at their best and to front things in troubled times.I want to get on to some real facts of the issue now. I note that a previous speaker Paul Goldsmith spent a bit of time talking about the welfare reforms of this Government. I too think that they are a pretty special achievement and I think the Prime Minister certainly led that for us. I will say no more about those because in fact Paul Goldsmith covered a lot of that.What I really want to talk about is the fact that in recent years this Government has created an environment where our unemployment rate has dropped to—[Interruption]—it is OK Mr Speaker. I am happy with them talking like that because they are talking to themselves. Our unemployment rate has dropped to 4.9 percent. We have in the last quarter created 35000 more jobs in New Zealand. We clearly need this population to continue growing at the rate it is just to supply the job market with people. The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research is now predicting some 400000 more jobs in the years leading up to 2021. I think in fact that will prove to be conservative so we certainly need to increase our population at a great old rate. We are doing that fortunately because from a producing or agricultural perspective the more people—well not necessarily the more people but certainly it is to our advantage to have more people living in New Zealand. I think it is most important.The other thing I want to touch on is the tourism industry. The north part of the Rangitīkei electorate my electorate significantly benefits from the massive increase in the number of tourists coming to New Zealand and from the investment that we have been making in that sector particularly around cycling walking climbing and the Whanganui River. In fact the Whanganui River settlement came through Parliament this morning—and that will progress very quickly in my part of the electorate. The other settlement that came through Parliament this morning was in the lower part of my electorate in the Rangitāne and I think that is pretty special for them as well.Very quickly on the dairy industry—we have seen extraordinary growth in the dairy industry in recent years. It has slowed down significantly and that has enabled some of the environmental challenges that dairy industry growth was causing to be managed. I think the dairy industry is in a much better space now. It is much stronger than it was in the boom times of 4 or 5 years ago and I think we are going to see a very good return to those dairy farmers in the next year or two. I also think we will see some of our major challenges around the environment overcome.Finally my electorate relies on sheep. We are the biggest sheep electorate in New Zealand and we have seen the sheep-meat industry I think turn around to some extent. Interestingly it has turned around on the back of two very significant investments of overseas foreign currency into our two biggest firms: Silver Fern Farms with that deal going through yesterday or the day before; and the other one where we had the Alliance Meats company having a strong partnership with overseas companies which will enable those to grow too. So I think we are in pretty good order and I will take my leave.