Upston Louise: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeUpston Louise: General Debate[Sitting date: 28 May 2014. Volume:699;Page:18408. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō): Talofa lava Mr Speaker. It is very clear that this Government has delivered a confident Budget for a confident nation. It is very much reflected in your communities when you are in and about your electorate because you can actually feel the confidence growing. After 6 years of a National Government that has worked incredibly hard to get the books balanced New Zealanders know and they can feel that confidence. They know the economy is growing they can see that their incomes are rising and they can see that the number of jobs is growing. All of those things give them a fantastic confident positive feeling.Unfortunately if you look across the other side of the House there is not a skerrick of confidence. I think if you actually look at the make-up that the Hon Bill English talked about before you potentially have this kind of crazy-shaped Opposition potentially made up of Labour the Greens New Zealand First and Internet Mana. So it is fairly obvious why there is not a lot of confidence over there and why there is not a lot of positivity. Actually if you look at those members they seem to just shrink further down each time they come in to the House and they have less and less to say and contribute whereas this side of the House is focusing on New Zealanders and what is actually important to them.I want to talk about a couple of things in particular. I want to talk about a couple of things in the area of health and pay tribute to our Minister of Health the Hon Tony Ryall because as he leaves Parliament having come inin 1990 he leaves health in a much better condition than any Government previously. In just this Budget alone there is $500 million for families which includes an increase for under-13s getting access to free general practitioner visits and prescriptions. There are a couple of things that have not got too much attention that I would like to bring to the attention of the House. One of those is the $40 million that has gone into Healthy Families New Zealand. Often when you are talking to people they want to know that you are actually addressing the underlying causes of issues. With this $40 million into Healthy Families we areactually looking at the causes of poor health which include being overweight smoking and excessive drinking. We have found an initiative that actually works that actually produces results in terms of community health and that actually addresses the very underlying issues so that we can address these concerns. We are rolling out this Healthy Families initiative to 10 communities around New Zealand and I think it is going to be absolutely fantastic. Families will see a significant difference.The other initiative in the Budget that I do want to bring to the attention of the House is the $20 million into rheumatic fever. This is an initiative that was jointly supported by the Māori Party. If you look at a place like Tokoroa where we launched it with Minister Turia it is focusing specifically on an issue that affects the most vulnerable families and families that do not have high incomes. Absolutely we are addressing the issues concerning our most vulnerable families and one of these is rheumatic fever.I think we are doing fantastically well. The response and the confidence that New Zealand communities are showing as a result of these very sensible initiatives that really get to the heart of some of the communities’ concerns—that is why New Zealanders are feeling more confident and feeling more comfortable. I am pretty sure that that will also be reflected when we go to the ballot box.I do want to finish my contribution today in this general debate by paying tribute to a constituent. I want to pay tribute to a constituent Keith Crate QSM—awarded for cycling—who passed away in my electorate this morning. He was the former Deputy Mayor of theTaupō District Council and really I would say was the father of cycling for anyone who has participated in the round-the-lake cycling challenge. He led the LakeTaupō Cycling Trust for 15 years. So he will be a huge loss to theTaupō community and I want to just pass on my concerns and put them on record for the House.Fa‘afetai.