Mark RonHon RON MARK (Minister of Defence): Mr Speaker thank you very much for the opportunity. Look isn't it amazing? I think that side over there is showing all the classic signs of Budget envy. Budget envy: things they wish they could've done but under Steven Joyce—[Interruption] Look at Mr Mark Mitchell smiling. He knows about can-kicking. He knows about not making decisions. He knows about the troubles of getting money out of Steven Joyce. And now he's sitting there watching record expenditure in areas that are of key prime importance. Want to ask questions about foreign policy? Multilateral contributions under that Government were the lowest in the whole of the OECD. This is an enlightened Government that takes its responsibilities for security trade and social security in the Pacific very seriously. Large surpluses? You've got to be joking. That was a ghost surplus built on the biggest social deficit this country has ever seen—ever seen. There were holes in the Budget all over the place. If that man wants to talk about the EU look at the track record. Nine years in Government in terms of EU trade? Zero—nothing. Six months of this Government and it's all happening.I've said enough about them. Let's talk about National's Nathan Guy who's having a road to Damascus experience on biosecurity right now. His speeches and his questions in this House on biosecurity might be seen as a pathway to redemption if his performance in the role as Minister of Agriculture hadn't been so pathetic. Likewise his cause for struggling farmers fighting to stave off the banks on the back of the Mycoplasma bovis issue would be laudable if his track record wasn't so laughable. Under that Government there were over 150 biosecurity breaches. Mr Carter is smiling looking down because he knows it's true. And Mr Guy wants to talk about compensation? He wants to talk about response? Come to the Wairarapa Mr Guy and listen to the farmers talking about that member's performance over pea weevil. What about velvet—Hon Members: Velvetleaf.Hon RON MARK: —velvetleaf? Where was that Minister on velvetleaf? What would he say to the farmers now? Was there compensation Mr Guy? Was the compensation rolled out at lightning speed like that which one is asking of our Minister Mr Damien O'Connor? No. There is silence over there now because that member knows full well that the cause of the issues that this Government is now dealing with were laid by him and his pathetic performance supposedly as a defender of the New Zealand agribiz sector. But no this is the man who's become known as what? A fair-weather farmer. He's not even a Queen Street farmer; he's now being talked about as a Lambton Quay farmer because all they ever see is him padding up and down the footpath going out for runs. He doesn't actually farm. That man over there has got a classic record of a dollar each way. He spent no dollars in protection underfunded biosecurity; 150 incursions later he dares to stand up in this House and question Damien O'Connor on his failings and the things that he didn't do through his poorly funded poorly led pathetically managed ministry of his own? We won't even get into the other range of 150 biosecurity incursions. Nobody is fooled by that fair-weather farmer. No one is fooled by Nathan Guy the Lambton Quay farmer.I played half back Mr Speaker—as you know—alongside of you. If I had a pass as good as his buck-passing and if I had a kick as good as his can-kicking—you know Oh I don't think I'll make a decision. I'll just kick it out for a little bit."—I would have been a damned All Black. I'd be right up there with Sid Going and Chris Laidlaw and the rest of them. That man over there might well have been a Minister of Agriculture but he's a has-been Minister of Agriculture. Every time he wants an answer to the question of biosecurity breaches and what this Government is doing I'll give him only one word of advice: go and look in the mirror Mr Guy—go and look in the mirror and ask your questions right there."