Carter DavidRt Hon DAVID CARTER (National): Thank you Madam Chair. I do want to bring my brief contribution back to the actual purpose of the debate which is the annual reviews of 2016/17.If I could start by just giving a bit of advice to the member Tamati Coffey who acknowledged that he's a freshman in this place and I accept that. But can I tell him having studied many democracies around the world the scrutiny and the accountability and the way any Government books are presented are as good in this country as anywhere else in the world. There is not a chance to hide the real position of any Government and therefore I think it is doubtful whether the Government's position over the last 24 hours of trying to run this sort of agenda and presentation prior to their Budget—that in actual fact things have not been left the way they really are—will not ride with New Zealand people. They know the scrutiny that it has received by the fiscal disciplines imposed by the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1994 and they will not be fooled by the Government's attempt to reposition itself as it delivers its first Budget because of course we all know it is out of resource because it spent too much money delivering free education to first-year students.Can I make some specific comments first of all on page 315 Parliamentary Service. I note that the select committee the Governance and Administration Committee as it is now called did not call Parliamentary Service before it. I think it should have done. I think there is an issue there whereby the Government needs to take note of the additional cost that is going to be imposed on this Government by Mr Peters' refusal to carry on with the plans accepted by every other political party in the last Parliament to build a new building out the back. We are now committed to go back to the landlord of Bowen House after negotiating our way out of that particular lease. It will cost and it will cost a lot of money and I implore the Governance and Administration Committee to have a look at that next time.The next one I wanted to refer to was Animal Control Products page 566. This comes before the Primary Production Committee. I was subbed on to that on that particular day not knowing that that would be the particular company that would come forward. But as the report in these documents said it is a company that has performed exceptionally well in a difficult area—and I want to take this opportunity of recording this in the Chamber—under the chairmanship of Terrence Murdoch under the general manager William—and I've forgotten his surname I must admit. But they have done an exceptional job in what is a difficult area.The next one I want to mention is Crown Irrigation Investments Ltd page 573 and the contribution from Grant Robertson saying they cut out all further support of irrigation in this country because it was leading to environmental damage. Have a look at the report and have a look—there it is mentioned that in actual fact a project like Central Plains Water has delivered better environmental outcomes because we now have a substantial area of storage. We're not drawing out of wells that were unsustainable and all of those people who have received irrigation water onto their properties are having to file strict environmental plans. The environmental outcomes are greatly improved.Can I then take note of the Office of the Ombudsman page 309 and take this opportunity of lending my congratulations to Peter Boshier as the Chief Ombudsman for the job he's done in getting hold of a huge backlog of complaints. That office is performing substantially better than it was and that is noted in the reports here.Finally can I talk briefly of the one that has no mention at all and that is of course the provincial growth fund of the Hon Shane Jones. I met the chairman this morning. I met the chairman of the primary growth fund this morning as I was coming up. I told him it was a slush fund. He told me I shouldn't refer to it as such. I told him I would continue for as long as I'm in Opposition labelling it as it truly is. It is nothing but a slush fund and I can tell Mr Shane Jones as he goes about giving money out to people he's been advised not to give money to that the people of New Zealand will not be fooled. They will not be fooled. This is their taxpayer money being splashed around in a vain attempt to save New Zealand First. It's not going to work. New Zealanders are far brighter than that and this slush fund will be shown up for what it is.