Allan KiritapuKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): Thank goodness we have a Labour-led Government at the helm right now because that was the most uninspired absolutely tragic last five minutes of my life which I cannot get back. So Mr Scott thank you for finishing.There's been a song on loop in my head—Fat Freddy's Drop: Hope for a generation". I was going to sing it but I got a bit shy. The thing that is going through my mind right now is thank goodness we have a Government at the helm that is inspiring hope in a generation of young people. Quite frankly why the majority of us are sitting here in this House today is because for nine long years that Government failed to give our kids any hope. It failed to create spaces in our communities for kids like a lot of our families—a space. It failed to create the picture that our kids might just one day go on to become whatever it is that they want.There is this ethos that sits on the other side of the House that you are the ruling superior and it is by us for us by the elite for the elite. But this Government right here has invested in creating a vision of hope and it stretches across all four corners of the well-beings. I want to commend Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister and I want to commend our executive for implementing in an extremely short period of time six weeks in fact—we have had healthy homes. That legislation has immeasurable benefit in my electorate. You won't see it or maybe it might hurt the pocket a little bit because you've got to insulate your homes for those of you that own rentals. But for a majority of those people living in those homes that creates a healthy warm environment.We've had paid parental leave come through this House—26 weeks' paid parental leave for parents that want to be parents at home. You've created all these quandaries about this that and the other thing. But at the end of the day it is a fantastic bill and an opportunity for our families to grow families.But just yesterday—I want to commend the Hon Christopher Hipkins because what he has done in six weeks is introduce an extra fifty bucks for all students. That has the impact of 130000 people in this country being better off because he found some money to give an extra 130000 people fifty bucks in their pocket to enhance themselves to become engaged participants in our country.But more importantly yesterday he reversed a tragic trend which started almost 30 years ago that started to commodify something that is a basic fundamental human right. Now I listened to you Mr Scott and I heard you lament the fact that you and the Hon Paula Bennett got a free education and it's just not right. Well it's absolutely right for the future of our nation that every single kid is entitled to a free education. It is a fundamental human right. You want to talk about means testing education. Shall we start means testing health? Shall we start means testing for our primary schools? Hey why not? Let's go to our secondary schools. Health education—there are some fundamental tenets that this side of the House believes in: that we should all be entitled to these as citizens of this nation.I just want to turn—because it was not that long ago; it was only a few months ago actually. I remember listening to our former Prime Minister in this House commenting on the state of young people the state of young people—that there were kids sitting at home that didn't want jobs. They were far more interested in sitting at home and smoking pot or whatnot.Well I live up on the East Coast. We've got some of the highest deprivation rates in this country. Forty-nine percent of my electorate is comprised of Māori. I am yet to meet that young person that does not want to fulfil their aspirations. I am yet to meet that one young person that wants to sit at home and waste away until the time of oblivion. I have met hundreds of young people that think they do not have a place in this community and this society. So I want to honour the Hon Christopher Hipkins for creating an opportunity for the many—for creating opportunities for kids like mine up on the East Coast. You know our Māori kids—I think there's going to be 16000 Māori kids that are going to benefit from this fees-free policy. I want to commend you for your work in bringing this to the House.Thank you to this Government. Thank you to New Zealand First for voting for change. Over 50 percent of this country voted for change and that is indeed what we truly have. Thank you sir."