Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): This Government is delivering for New Zealanders and this Government is delivering for Whangarei people and for people in Northland. This is a Government that listens and delivers in Northland. The Government listened and is delivering on roading—$500 million from Whangarei to the Ruakākā roundabout the single-biggest infrastructure outside Marsden Point. The Government listened and is delivering on health. Northland District Health Board received $21 million of top-up funding in Budget 2017. The Government listened and is delivering on police with the biggest base increase of the 880 new front-line police of any region—19 percent. The Government listened and is delivering on jobs and the environment. Just last week there was a $30 million announcement on end-of-life tyres no longer being in landfills and decreasing their carbon footprint as well.The Government listened and is delivering on tourism. Two weeks ago on Friday 16 June this was evidence again when Minister Maggie Barry announced the last of the funding for the Hundertwasser Wairau Māori Arts Centre the last Hundertwasser building ever to be built in the world. This has been a journey over several decades from when Frederick Hundertwasser first came to New Zealand and settled in the North. Travelling in 1973 as a guest of the founder of Dominion Breweries Henry Kelliher he then purchased the Shortridge farm in the Bay of Islands in 1976 got New Zealand citizenship in 1986 and died aboard a ship in the Pacific in 2000.It has been my privilege to be the captain of just a small part of that ship for the Hundertwasser arts centre for a small part of the time and I want to acknowledge on record the many people who have carried the baton beforehand before it was passed to us to prosper Northland—to the many many volunteers. Everyone had a special role. My role was to take the voice of the city and community leaders carry that voice to Wellington and craft an audience that would listen and believe. Cruise New Zealand listened and believed. It wrote on 8 May saying: The visual appeal of a Hundertwasser-designed building along with the inclusion of a high-end art experience will create a new experience not only for Whangarei and Northland but also for New Zealand as a cruise destination. Completion of this development will add to the overall appeal of New Zealand as a cruise destination and will especially bring a true point of difference to Whangarei. They will stop."Many people are listening and believe in Whangarei and in Northland. The Rt Hon John Key listened and believed when he came up with the first $4 million in 2015 towards Hundertwasser. Steven Joyce listened and believed when he made the announcement of the $4 million at the launch of the Tai Tokerau Northland Economic Action Plan at the Marsden Estate winery in Kerikeri in February 2016. Simon Bridges listened and believed when he told the Northland Economic Action Plan progress meeting at Waitangi in February 2017 that Hundertwasser was a high priority. Maggie Barry listened and believed when she announced 2 weeks ago that the arts culture and heritage regional programme would fund the remaining $3 million with most of that arising from new seismic compliance and in so doing joined the Lottery Grants Board Foundation North Northland Regional Council and many other contributors including the children at Matarau School.This Government listens and believes in Northland. Contrast this to other parties in Northland which do not seem to listen and do not want to back Northland. For example on this side of the House we support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and have listened and will back Northland. New Zealand First does not support TPP and does not back Northland. We believe in TPP trade growth for dairy farmers in Northland. We believe in TPP trade growth for avocado in Northland. We believe in TPP trade growth for red meat in Northland. Most economic spokesmen back TPP for Whangarei and for Northland but not New Zealand First. I think there are some people in New Zealand First whose instinct tells them TPP is right whose rational thinking tells them TPP is right but once inside the New Zealand First tent they are forced to leave their principles at the door. They flip to an ideology of protectionism and then will flop at the feet of voters—at the feet of the people of Northland.This party has a track record of stable government and a prosperous economy and the people of Northland are working with a Government that is delivering. Thank you."