Prime Willow-JeanWILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker and thank you for this opportunity to speak in the general debate. I want to take the next five minutes to talk about a couple of recent announcements which I am so proud of and which make me so proud to be part of this Government. Just last week I was at Ngāwhā Prison. It was a very emotional and confronting day but it was one that was also full of hope. I was standing alongside my colleagues my whanaunga—the Hon Kelvin Davis Minister of Corrections and the Hon Peeni Henare Minister for Whānau Ora—where we made an announcement for $98 million for a Māori pathway to address Māori reoffending and recidivism rates in this country. When I came to Parliament I shared a story in my maiden speech. When I was at university I opened up the newspaper—a two-page spread in that newspaper was full of faces and names of wanted and convicted criminals. The majority of them were Māori and Pasifika and the majority of them were young. Many of them I could tell from their last names were from Ngāpuhi and when I saw that I just couldn't believe it. This is not how it should be for my people. I remember when Ngāwhā Prison was opened and it was very contentious at the time. The promise that was made to the people of Ngāpuhi was that that would be a place for rehabilitation of our Māori offenders in the hope that they would not be recidivists and they would not be back there again. I am so proud of the announcement made by the Hon Kelvin Davis and Peeni Henare. We are taking a different approach not just a 16-week programme—one from the beginning to the end of their sentence one with a joined-up Whānau Ora approach. I was also proud on Monday to welcome the eight new graduates from the Royal New Zealand Police College who will be servicing our communities in Northland. We have focused on our community safety and wellbeing investing and recruiting and training more police officers and putting them back on our streets. All whakapapa to the North. It was so beautiful to hear their stories—the challenges of undertaking the training so far away from home but the pride that they were returning home to service their communities. At that graduation the district commander commended the Government for our announcement of the $320 million investment to eradicate sexual and domestic violence in this country. I remember four years ago joining the Hon Kelvin Davis on a hīkoi that he led to eliminate sexual violence—men speaking up in support of that kaupapa. So on Sunday when the announcement was made for $320 million to be invested in this area—the single largest amount in a single Budget ever—I was so proud. We are tackling the long-term challenges the long-term problems. I really want to acknowledge my colleague Jan Logie who is in the House for her work in that area. The feedback we have had has been overwhelmingly positive.We are focused on wellbeing. We are focused on people. We are putting people at the centre of everything that we do. We are building a New Zealand that we can all be proud of. Yesterday I listened to the speech from our Prime Minister on the climate legislation that we have introduced on setting targets. It was an amazing speech—speaking directly to the young people for they have been the ones that have been challenging us to do something. I heard a comment earlier in the Hon Dr Megan Woods' speech where she said that we are governing for the next generation not just the next election. How true.We have banned plastic bags. We've banned offshore mining permits. We introduced climate legislation yesterday. We are working on a kinder more caring society. We saw the images of our Prime Minister leading change globally in terms of social media to ensure that it is no longer a platform or a place for violent extremist thoughts and ideas. How proud I was to see her leading that the Christchurch Call after as we heard today on 15 March we had such a devastating event in this country. What that showed me after that event was that all of us as New Zealanders really want a kinder more caring society and I am proud that we are putting people and wellbeing at the centre of everything that we do. Kia ora Madam Deputy Speaker.