Kanongata'a AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A (Labour): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. It's always an honour and a privilege to give a contribution at general debate. I'm just going to talk about where I've been in the last couple of months. I know that the MP for Rongotai talked about bringing the happiness but I didn't hear any happiness in his speech. Anyway I'll just talk about where I've been—observing from a distance as our Prime Minister the Rt Hon Chris Hipkins has been out selling our country in China. I want to acknowledge his leadership for taking Te Whānau-a-Apanui the winner of Te Matatini. When we saw them perform at the Great Wall our hearts were really warm as New Zealanders so I just want to acknowledge that. My speech today is about the leadership that I am currently experiencing under the Prime Minister the Rt Hon Chris Hipkins and as I talk about four points of my speech I'll be able to demonstrate why we are in it for you. I met with Malcolm Bell; he is a local board member in Franklin in the area of Papakura. I am a list MP based in Papakura and after my meeting with him I went to have a sausage roll at the local bakery and then I saw a chemist so I thought Oh I'll go into the chemist and just have a chat to them". It's Clevedon Village Pharmacy and I spoke with Sue and Glenda and I asked them: "Is the $5 co-payment free prescription going to make a difference to anybody?" This is what they told me. They said that prescription bills are at the bottom of the list for everybody. If they've gone to the doctor—if they've got a grocery list the last thing they will spend money on is their medication. They told me that it is making a difference—that the $5 free co-payment is making a difference.So then I fell sick and I went along to the doctor got my prescription—four lots of medication. I went to the Unichem chemist in Onehunga and I'm ready to get out my card to pay for my medication and they said "Oh it's free now". I said "Oh what?" I had myself even forgotten that was happening. He said "Oh it's free now and it's making everybody happy". When we say "in it for you" that's what we are saying.I then visited Sustainable Papakura. It's a group that volunteers in Papakura with Rosemary Nash and on a Monday they usually volunteer sewing bags for free and give them out to shops in Papakura where you can use them instead of plastic. I asked them about the winter energy payment: is the winter energy payment making a difference? They told me that the winter energy payment is making a difference and can they have that the whole year round? I said "Oh I'll go and talk to the policy makers about that". So they said that it is making a difference in their lives. When we say "we're in it for you" that's what we're talking about.I also went to Papakura Intermediate and I spoke with principal Bec Kaukau about the food in schools—the free lunches. I asked her "Is it making a difference?" and she said "It absolutely is making a difference." Why is it making a difference? She said that they've got volunteers in the school they've got someone locally coming in the community the parents are coming in to help make those lunches and it's connecting the kids to their food—growing food at school—and it's connecting them to their community.I also met with Simon Craggs of Papakura High School and he was proudly showing me this new outdoor facility at Papakura High School with a big smile on his face. He wanted me to extend a message of thank you to the Prime Minister the Rt Hon Chris Hipkins because when he was Minister of Education these changes these school renovation funds—I've forgotten the name. Anyway it allowed Papakura High School to have this new outdoor facility where everything now happens in there. I also went along with the Minister of Education Jan Tinetti to Beachlands School where the principal Anthony Noble-Campbell said to me to pass this message to the Prime Minister: thank you for the classrooms that they've had when he was the Minister of Education.Those things that I have just said came in under the leadership of the Prime Minister the Rt Hon Chris Hipkins. He is a fair leader and all we want is a fair leader that is going to be fair for all of New Zealand. I can go on and on and on but for me this is what we stand to risk—what is at risk—if we don't look at the leadership from this side compared to that side. Mālō."