Hudson Brett; Tisch LindsayBRETT HUDSON (National): Well listening to that contribution from the previous speaker Ron Mark I can only surmise that he has been on a trip to Colorado recently. It is an absolute pleasure to speak to speak on this Budget. It is a Budget that is delivering for all New Zealanders. It is a Budget that understands that the Government needs to invest in a growing New Zealand. It is a Budget that understands the work that is being done for New Zealand with the Business Growth Agenda and provides further investment to keep economic growth going strong. And it is a Budget that acknowledges that in strong economic times particularly when we are forecast to continue at growth rates of over 3 percent for the next 4 or more years now is an opportunity to share an economic dividend with hard-working Kiwis and their families. Kiwi families on lower and middle incomes have been working hard and while their wages may have been outpacing inflation they still have challenges in their lives and this is a way through this Budget that we can help to give them some relief. We are doing that with our fantastic $2 billion Family Incomes Package a package that includes some changes to tax thresholds that will allow hard-working Kiwi families to keep hold of a bit more of the money that they earn for themselves.In the debates that have raged in this House since Budget day many people have talked about tax breaks and giving money back. There is no giving money back; the shifting of the tax threshold means the Government is not going to take those hard-working Kiwis' money to begin with. That is why it cannot possibly be termed a bribe. You cannot bribe someone by not taking their money in the first place. But in not taking an amount of money from people whether it is on the bracket that is shifting from $14000 up to $24000 or indeed from $48000 to $52000 what we will do is put more money in hard-working Kiwis' pockets and when you take that and match that with what we are doing with the Working for Families adjustments and with the accommodation supplements we are going to see about 1.34 million Kiwi families on average better off by $26 a week.Those larger families and people who live in parts of the country that tend to have higher accommodation rentals will get even more. It is a Budget that clearly targets support at Kiwis who are working hard but who still have challenges in their lives. It is one that will make a real difference to them. On top of that we have announced a further round in our Innovative New Zealand programme—$373 million. This is the sort of money that goes into supporting initiatives that are funded perhaps out of the Marsden Fund or through Callaghan Innovation—those initiatives that we have that help to encourage New Zealand businesses in particular to invest a bit more of their profits and a bit more of their retained earnings into research and development areas areas that will help them to deliver even greater products or services that markets within New Zealand and abroad will want. This thinking and this approach is the sort of approach that will help us to remain at the forefront not only of our primary industries where we can continue to add value to our products and services and our goods there but also importantly speaking from my experience the ICT industry. That is an area where companies like Xero Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and others demonstrate very clearly to us that Kiwis can do anything and given the opportunity they will. Our R & D grants—our growth grants in particular—are a means to help Kiwis to invest a bit more in creating their own success.The point I will make on these before moving on is that one of the fundamental strong points of those growth grants is that they match Government money not on a whim but against the opportunity that companies have to raise private funds. So in order to get the incentive from the Government the company has to have shown that its ideas have excited enough investors to want to put their own money at risk that the Government can have confidence in the potential success of that business. It means that we are not just backing our winning industries. It means we are backing Kiwis who have got ideas that people in the market place can see have merit.This is another fantastic Budget from this Government. It is one that provides an economic dividend to those who deserve it the most. I have absolutely no problem in commending the actions of this Government to the House.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Dr Parmjeet Parmar—5 minutes.