statement, they are finding a road map that will guide and fulfil their
aspirations. Thank you. Richard
Prosser. Thank you. What a pleasure
it
Prosser. Thank you. What a pleasure map
Prosser. Thank you. What a pleasure it is to rise and take a call on
this debate in reply to the PM's
statement to make my first
contribution
statement to make my first statement
statement to make my first contribution for this year, and I
would like to extend a very hearty
Happy New Year to you, sir, and I
will undertake now with witnesses to
do my very utmost to make sure that
you do manage to keep your New Year
resolution. Honestly, what a led of
sycophantic raw establish we have
heard
sycophantic raw establish we have
spouted from both sides of the House about the new PM and how wonderfully
he is doing and how wonderfully he
is going to do and so forth. In
fact, I have to admit I was liking
forward to Bill English's first
speech as PM, because I have had
this
speech as PM, because I have had
speeches, as Minister of Finance, have a particular soporific effect
speeches, as Minister of Finance,
I find myself drifting off to sleep. I was impressed when he got started
he was animated, quite excited and
using expression and gesticulating.
You can look that word up
using expression and gesticulating.
what you think it is. Shortly thereafter he sort of reverted to
type and the next thing I knew,
Clayton Mitchell, sitting next to
me, was elbowing me in the ribs. The
familiar waft of verbal chloroform
had come over me and the way I had
gone. It appears that Cruisy Bill,
has Labour seemed to have dubbed
him, is no more exciting than snoozy
Bill who used to put me to sleep. I
have a copy of the speech that he
gave here. I was here listening to
it when he gave it. Having sat
through it, listened to it and read
it again, I still don't foe what
he's saying. Impressive that as PM
and leader of the Government through
to
and leader of the Government through it
and leader of the Government through to the election at least
and leader of the Government through
his ability to spend a long time saying nothing at all. That is quite
appropriate.
saying nothing at all. That is quite
Thank you four those comment, the new Minister from Hamilton, which
does deserve a mention. Ha ha! They
actually haven't done anything to
talk about. So, I guess saying,
again, things they will do in the
future falls into the same vain. It
is smoke and mirrors. When we talk
about what the PM states, about his
agenda, what he is going to do, what
his Government is going to do, what
he wants to do, we hear the same old
refrain National have been repeating
for as long as I can remember
actually. Long before I joined New
Zealand
actually. Long before I joined New for
actually. Long before I joined New Zealand First, long before I become
an MP, before I came to this House,
I heard the PM from the other side
talking about being aspirational. It
is aspirational this and
aspirational that. Well, it is a
great
aspirational that. Well, it is a talking
aspirational that. Well, it is a great thing to be. It seems tore a
mirage. We seem to be getting closer
to it but never arriving. That, I
think, is because this Government
near does anything. It
think, is because this Government
anything. It talks about wanting a better and brighter future for New
Zealand, a bigger, more bustling
economy but they never do anything
about
economy but they never do anything Zealand,
economy but they never do anything about it. A case in point
economy but they never do anything
out my office window before I came down, I see a wharf filled with
logs. Now, if a Government was truly
aspirational for a country like New
Zealand, which has a huge forestry
reserve, we wouldn't have a wharf
full of logsful we may have a
reserve, we wouldn't have a wharf full of logsful we may have a wharf
full of particle board, or other
products to be exported. No, we see
a wharf full of logs, because the
Government is insufficiently
aspirational that it allows that how
happen.
aspirational that it allows that how
I want us to have sawmills and processing plants and for those
industries
processing plants and for those processing
processing plants and for those industries to occur in New Zealand
to
industries to occur in New Zealand processing
industries to occur in New Zealand to employ New Zealanders, good jobs
for real people, this is all private
internice. All private
for real people, this is all private
intift pior space. There is a different tweebs private enterprise
and
different tweebs private enterprise internice.
different tweebs private enterprise and free trade. When New Zealand
First is leading the Government next
time around you will see this. Our
leader has been prophecising for the
leader has been prophecising for the
way and the time has come that that is going to be demonstrated. If you
sit there long enough
is going to be demonstrated. If you
lucky enough to come back next time
now that you are making them famous by giving them a Minister for the
first
by giving them a Minister for the by
by giving them a Minister for the first time in decades
by giving them a Minister for the
privileged to watch while the Rt Hon Winston
privileged to watch while the Rt Hon privileged
privileged to watch while the Rt Hon Winston Peters leads the Government
who puts plans into action.
Ha ha! Logs is one example. Members on both sides made mention of
housing. The Government members
haven't spoken about it very much
because
haven't spoken about it very much Ha
haven't spoken about it very much because they don't want to
acknowledge the crisis. Now, a
Government
acknowledge the crisis. Now, a acknowledge
acknowledge the crisis. Now, a Government that was truly
aspirational and had plans and had
vision would probably turn the clock
back to about 1930 and start
building houses. If you don't have
enough
building houses. If you don't have acknowledge
building houses. If you don't have enough houses, the answer to that
problem is to build more houses. It
is all well and good saying we will
let the market decide and we will
carve off special areas and make it
easier for developers to move in and
build houses and so forth. They seem
to have the strange idea that if you
Putland aside, the developers will
move in and build cheap houses. No,
they won't. Why would
move in and build cheap houses. No,
thing happened in Nelson. There is a block of waterfront land, put aside
for
block of waterfront land, put aside thing
block of waterfront land, put aside for affordable housing. The
developers moved in and building
half million dollar apartments.
Because they can. There thing is
about the free market is that when
there is a demand for something,
suppliers will supply it. When there
is no limit on who can come in, and
who can buy houses and how many
houses they can buy and have access
to virtually unlimited money, they
will pay whatever the developers
wanted. Why would a developer say,
would put rules in place around who can come into the country and buy
houses with unlimited money and who
can't. Then the Government would
turn around, as
can't. Then the Government would
first Labour Government did in the '30s and say we have a problem with
people, we don't have enough houses,
we will build them. And Nuk money
out of thin air and and that build
houses, and rent them, and pay back
that expenditure. That's the kind of
thing that an aspirational
Government
thing that an aspirational houses,
thing that an aspirational Government that has a plan does. It
does other things too. It extracts
value from the products the country
produces, and does that in a number
of
produces, and does that in a number produces,
produces, and does that in a number of different ways. It does that
through not restricting enterprise,
but by directing trade in ways that
make it more profitable, both for
the country and for the private
businesses that generate that
wealth. We can't get away from the
fact
wealth. We can't get away from the
extracted are extracted for the most part by private enterprises, by
farmers, miners, foresters, fishers,
and sold to the world. But they are
sold into a market that is a fierce
jungle kind of a place. It needs
rules around it. It needs rules to
make it work in our favour. An
aspirational Government would look
at the products and the resources
that the country has and the way it
sells them, and look at putting
rules in and some assistance to New
Zealand businesses to make sure they
were extracting the most money
possible. A Government had
aspiration could do this off its own
bat from the start by looking at,
say, the royalty regime that this
country charges for the products
that we export. Our oil. One of our
biggest export earners. Yet the oil
regime is about the cheap nest the
world. Saudi Arabia charges about
rush may well be fresh water. We have a fresh water resource that is
incomparable in the world. At the
moment, that water is allowed to be
exported by anybody who has a permit
to extract it with no return to the
country that supplies it. New
Zealand First, because we are
trulies
Zealand First, because we are Zealand
Zealand First, because we are trulies arational and do have plans
for the future, is saying when water
is exported from this country, it
should command a royalty. Paid to
the Crown on behalf of the people
who own it. How
the Crown on behalf of the people
numbers. But we will. If we said, for example, 10 cents a litre that
would make our water worth about
for example, 10 cents a litre that
oil equivalent. If you say that Saudi Arabia is charging
oil equivalent. If you say that
That is quite comparable, you know,
People who are buying the water are buying p it because they haven't got
it themselveses. We have it in huge
quantities. We are giving it away
for
quantities. We are giving it away it
quantities. We are giving it away for nothing. The rest of the world
is looking at us and saying,
for nothing. The rest of the world
not be doing that. We will be extracting
not be doing that. We will be not
not be doing that. We will be extracting the value that exists in
the resources and wealth this
country
the resources and wealth this the
the resources and wealth this country has and bringing it back
into this country, bringing it back
into the country for the benefit of
the nation and the people. The good
news is that a new order is sweeping
the world, we have seen it with
Brexit, we've seen it with Trump. It
will happen here. There is an
exciting leader with a vision who
will go forward, after the next
election, and take this country to
the great heights that it deserves
and that is the Rt Hon Winston
Peters. He will be there after
September, leading a New Zealand
First
September, leading a New Zealand September,
September, leading a New Zealand First Government. Thank you. Barbara
Kuriger.
First Government. Thank you. Barbara First
First Government. Thank you. Barbara Kuriger. Thank you. It's a pleasure
to take this call. I'm actually very
excited for New Zealand. Despite
what the last speaker said, there is
one really good leader in this House
by the name of PM Rt