Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Thank you very much Mr Chair. Just a moment to comment on the Opposition who will have you believe that the country's going to hell in a handcart; but actually the country's doing really really well. For all those people that are listening right now and that are watching their televisions that are thinking that the Opposition are crying foul with good reason they're not. They're the Opposition—that's what they do and we've heard it through all of the reviews that we've been doing on the Finance and Expenditure Committee. We sat through quite a few of the reviews—the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation the Inland Revenue Department the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and Treasury—and it was a pleasant experience because this Government is changing the way that we do things. The way that we've always done things isn't necessarily the way that is best for New Zealanders. So what we're doing is some groundbreaking stuff. So it was my pleasure to sit there and listen to the annual review to listen to Treasury talk about things like the Living Standards Framework. They were talking about the well-being Budget which is coming up. The comment that kept coming through was about how we measure things as we have done for so many years now in terms of GDP but that's not necessarily the thing that matters the most. Whilst the member for Papakura can sit there and mock it wholeheartedly actually bringing a bit of kindness and looking after people's well-being is something that was tragically missing from the previous Governments in fact. They sat there for nine long years—we all sat there for nine long years—and oversaw some of the worst homelessness that our country's ever seen. So actually taking a step back and doing things differently to ensure the well-being of New Zealanders as I say was a pleasure to listen to. Talking about living standards and the Living Standards Framework—again innovative stuff for the Treasury to be dealing with—they talked about some of the challenges which are involved. We've got to understand that there will be challenges when it comes to new innovative things like this. They talked about making sure that the Living Standards Framework reflected our very important Māori cultural identity in there and that we weren't just running a very broad brush over it making sure that the people of this land are being looked after as we move forward as well because we know that Māori are overrepresented in all of the terrible statistics. When we're talking about corrections and when we're talking about poor outcomes in health and education Māori are heavily overrepresented in those areas.So to actually have a Living Standards Framework that they're developing and taking time with is a great thing. They have taken it out there and they've listened to the people. They actually referenced it and it says so in the report that actually 500 responses were received between July and August of last year and most of them were positive. So there's a sign out there that New Zealanders know that actually this is a really good thing that we're getting into. They know that this Government is transformative in its approach and that's a great thing. The Opposition can laugh but actually I'll just say it again: they oversaw homelessness like you wouldn't believe. I represent Rotorua and actually we became superstars when it came to the homelessness population of New Zealand. So they can laugh but actually they shouldn't be laughing; they should be ashamed—they should be ashamed that they oversaw that in their time. Let's talk about the well-being Budget because that's where this all comes back to. I'm proud that we're going to be overseeing something as revolutionary as a well-being Budget looking outside of just GDP measures and that was what we heard from Treasury. They talked about—well the Minister made sure that he pointed out some of the key focuses of the well-being Budget: talking about creating opportunities for our productive businesses and making sure that iwi are actually at the centre of that too because we have a lot of iwi that have come into quite a bit of money and they need to be given these opportunities to be able to advance. In the well-being Budget we're also going to he mentioned lift opportunities for Māori and for Pasifika as well—again turning around those negative statistics that we've become so OK with in a really terrible way. Again the Opposition will laugh but this Government's going to do something about it. We're looking after our nation in terms of the digital age through innovation. I've just come from a function next door where the people of Wairoa have been connected with internet. They have fast fibre there. So they can sit there in their house in Nūhaka in Wairoa and they can make sure that they're participating as global citizens of our digital world. Lifting our outcomes when it comes to child poverty and mental health and well-being is also really high in the well-being Budget's focus. For that reason the Treasury are doing a great job the Minister is doing a great job and this Government's doing a great job too.