Dowie Sarah: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDowie Sarah: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 07 June 2016. Volume:714;Page:11732. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SARAH DOWIE (National—Invercargill): It is a pleasure to rise to take this call in the debate on Budget 2016 and also a pleasure to follow the honourable member Jacqui Dean who took the conversation south to the fantastic place of the Waitaki. I too intend to take it further south to the fantastic provincial—Todd Barclay: Oban?SARAH DOWIE: —not quite; well maybe Oban—city of Invercargill and the seat that is the Invercargill electorate. That of course spans right out takes in the Catlins and Oban on Stewart Island—I know that Mr Barclay is fascinated by Stewart Island/Rakiura—and goes right out to Riverton and Orepuki. It is a fantastic electorate to represent and certainly this Budget goes a long way to helping out regional New Zealand.I do want to join in the accolades to congratulate the Hon Bill English on delivering his eighth Budget for this Government because he has done exceptionally well. It is no mean feat to bring this country back into surplus with 2.8 percent growth in GDP over the next 5 years which of course means more jobs and higher wages for our families to help achieve their hopes dreams and aspirations—or as any good AC/DC fan would say “Back in Black”. I too stood at the Cake Tin in Wellington and rocked away to that song and so does this Government. We are back in black and that is no mean feat that this Government has delivered.Not only are we back in surplus with a growing economy but we are supporting families to get ahead—again more jobs higher wages—and investing in a quality of life for them investing in things such as health education and infrastructure. Not only that—not only that—we are also supporting our most vulnerable the people who are most at risk in our society by identifying risk factors very early on with our social investment model and intervening early on requiring services to be wrapped around these people tailoring these services to their needs and expecting the deliverers of those services to achieve measurable results. It is a fantastic Budget all round touching on all of those things.What an interesting week it was last week with the union—the Greens-Labour union. Staff members were run off their feet as they were delivering roses between the two camps. I think we have moved on from that now with the bedding-in of that union and now we are looking at the different combinations and permutations of co-leadership and how that could look with different shadow Cabinet Ministers and parliamentary under-secretaries and decision making by committee. I am wondering how on earth they will actually get things done if they are ever voted into power but it is quite an amazing thing to watch all these different permutations with different results every which way but Sunday. But I digress.In the meantime this is the Government that is delivering results. We are looking for measurable results and we are investing in our people and our services to deliver for our people. I want to talk a little bit firstly about health. Of course we have all heard in this House about the woes of Southern District Health Board (Southern DHB). But Southern DHB was a winner out of Budget 2016. It received an extra $32 million in funding. The commissioner team was exceptionally pleased with that. That is certainly going to help with the delivery of quality health-care throughout the region but also the delivery of sustainable health-care. I was very pleased to learn of that extra funding.Of course Innovative New Zealand is a package that is designed for the regions. There is $94 million to go into developing different opportunities and looking at the potential for our regions. I would like to commend the Southland Regional Development Strategy group which is doing an excellent job of identifying potential in Southland. I look forward to working with it further to deliver on those aspirations. So this is a fantastic Budget and I commend it to the House.