Tinetti JanHon JAN TINETTI (Minister for Women): I really don't have a lot to say about that last speaker Andrew Bayly because really if that's the best that that particular party's got then we can see why they're concentrating on our side of the polls and not their own.But I did want to just touch on the ACT leader's contribution in this House because quite frankly they showed how out of touch they are with the hurt and the shame that was caused by a dark history in this country with the Dawn Raids. I have never been so proud as I was when I saw our Prime Minister deliver an apology on behalf of this country to people whose hurt has stayed with them for so very very long. And I am absolutely proud that we are now going to be giving the resources to the Ministry of Education to develop the resources to tell that history in schools. I think that it is well needed when you hear the interpretation from the other side of the House of that.It is a great day here in this country. I am so proud of the work that this Government is doing when we see that both unemployment rates and underutilisation rates have dropped markedly in the June quarter—in fact the largest quarterly drops that have ever been recorded. We are certainly a Government that is focused on securing our COVID recovery and a key part of our plan is building infrastructure to create jobs.With this in mind as Minister for Women I want to use the COVID-19 recovery as an opportunity to change and lay down the foundations to build back better for our women and to make a more resilient future for our women and our girls. This means that we are working towards ensuring that our women are working in a variety of sectors and are better placed to tackle any economic crisis in the future because we know from history that economic shocks disproportionately impact women in this country. We know that after the global financial crisis and after the Christchurch earthquakes which were the most recent in our memory but also after and during this COVID-19 pandemic that women have been disproportionately impacted in the labour market.Now while we need to ensure that we are building back better immediately to ensure that disproportionate impact is minimised we also need to ensure that when the next global market shock hits that women are not being disproportionately impacted. This is absolutely critical to the future of our women and none of us can do this alone. So as a result this Government has committed to producing a women's employment action plan which will seek to address barriers and challenges that disadvantage women. This will give us a real chance to identify steps to support women to fulfil their potential.I have been talking with many groups of women around the country who are wanting to contribute to this plan including groups such as the National Council of Women of New Zealand groups such as Pacific Women and Wāhine Māori. I have met with many many groups along the way. Today I met with groups from Women's Refuge out in Porirua. I also have been talking this week with women in horticulture who want to very much be part of this plan and feed into it because they can see that they have this real potential now to build back better for women and into the future.I have said to all of these groups: What can each of us do collectively to increase the number of women in leadership positions and to increase women who are better utilised within the workforce? What are we doing as women in our workplace to encourage and support them to have aspirations and set goals and aim high? How can we not only attract women to these sectors but retain them in the long term?" I'm proud of what we are doing in this country to build back better."