O'Connor Greg; McKelvie IanGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Thank you Mr Speaker. Now I'm not sure whether it's by good luck or by good management but I often get to follow ACT speakers. Before I stand on my feet I'm always looking for something to motivate me and nothing motivates me more than listening to members of a party individually a pack of good women and men—I know most of them individually—but fundamentally a scary bunch! We're here discussing the Budget. We're here discussing a Budget that we are introducing at a very scary time in world history. We are not yet through a COVID pandemic that we only have to watch the newspapers to see New Zealanders around the world—whether they be on political trips whether they be on sports trips or whether they be on any sort of a trip overseas—stumbling across COVID wherever they go evidence that we are still donkey-deep in the middle of this thing. We also when we're not looking at that are looking at yet another climate emergency somewhere generally in Australia but often elsewhere—clear evidence that there is climate change upon us. Yet here we are in the middle of a very important debate the last two speakers they may well have been speaking about what's happening in this very room because they seem to be able to ignore the fact that there is a war in Ukraine—well I think that anyone who maybe can only read three words a day would know that. They may not be aware that there is a shortage of containerships a shortage of containers which again is aggravating our supply issues and they obviously are also not aware that China's main ports are shut down aggravating the previous two factors. Now on top of those three things even alone one of them could have caused an economic issue around the world—certainly given us a cold—together the three of them have given the world economy pneumonia.So in the midst of this we are now doing what actually we come here to do. This is the centre point of politics. This is the centre point of the political year where we actually produce a Budget. Now this is a Budget where particularly we're at a stage of world history that we probably haven't seen. I think that historians will look back and say that what's happening right now—it's happened since 2020—will be akin in its impact on the world to probably the two world wars. So it is incredibly important that the Budget that we produce now is going to be one that is going to take us forward into the future. As we learnt at the beginning of this pandemic if you focus on the people then the economy will actually follow that. You've only got to see the growth in our economy. You've only got to see the fact that the ratings agencies are now giving us high ratings rare in the Western World. These are because we did focus on our people.Now we've got a Prime Minister the Prime Minister of this country who will be the first to say that the reason she is getting the ability to promote our country the way she is is because she has this country of 5 million people behind her who have done the right thing who as a result of doing the right thing we have one of the lowest death rates in the world. If the Americans had followed our model they wouldn't have a million dead; they would actually have 60000 dead.So those members screaming across the aisle you're doing what you do as an Opposition that's fine do that but just be very wary that you're not actually damaging this country because you are. When I see the previous speaker from ACT who is virtually buying people tickets to go to Australia—Go make us look good." they're thinking as an Opposition. Well I would say can we just sit and reflect and be proud of what we've achieved as a country be proud of this Budget that gives us more to work on and be able to do more in the future. Thank you Mr Speaker.Simeon Brown: Oh he'll have more time for the RSA later!ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): Phew! Order! Order! I call Jo Luxton—five minutes."