Goodhew JoHon JO GOODHEW (Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector): I rise today and although I would like to spend a bit of time on the address of the previous member Damien O'Connor and on how wrong he is let us just leave it at that because today I do want to concentrate on social investment. Social investment is a hallmark of this Government. Actually social investment is tough but it is the best approach because what we are currently doing is working out how we can deliver through programmes that work a much brighter future for in particular New Zealand's most vulnerable. But it means that we have to understand first and foremost what if we do nothing will be the cost to those individuals and their family and whānau and also the cost to New Zealand because that focuses the minds of the Ministers and the Government and all of the officials whom we ask to assist us to make change on bringing about change that makes that difference in the lives of an individual a child a whānau a family and then the wider community as well. Interestingly the social investment approach has been noticed by the Australians. In fact they are writing it up in their main dailies and saying Look what they're doing across the Tasman under that Deputy Prime Minister Bill English." and as we know the other Ministers in the social sector are working alongside him to deliver this social investment approach. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well the Aussies are at it again. They think they might do exactly what we are doing and I wish them all the best because it is truly the way to make a difference in the lives of those New Zealanders. Let me try—not "try" but actually talk a little bit about a couple of examples. There are examples happening as has been mentioned by our Minister of Education around the investment in school property which allows a framework a space where children can be well-educated. Some of that has come to my electorate and I acknowledge that. I want to also mention the investment we are putting into families in extending the free prescriptions and after-hours visits to the doctor for those 780000 children under the age of 13 who can now access that. What we know is that 16.6 percent more are attending the GP and 99 percent of the GPs have signed up because they know that this is about investing in the health of those children. The other example I want to briefly speak about is our new financial capability approach and I want to do so because this has been a co-designed process of more than 450 budget advisory services their clients and the referral agencies taking the time to say what we are currently doing is not working for the most vulnerable. We are just churning them through the system spitting them out the other end bringing them back in the front end again and doing it all over again. That has not been working so the $14.9 million that we spend in this space will be spent under the new co-designed process called building financial capability. This will mean that financial mentors and money mates will work in a way that the budget advisory services seem to have embraced to deliver a much better outcome and a much more certain financial future for those who are involved in this service. We have 17 new providers around the country that have been offered contracts 49 providers have received more funding and for those that missed out on the funding there is transitional money available for them so that their clients will be transitioned to the provider that is in their area. I want to assure the House and the people of New Zealand that we have required that the tenders address every region in the country so there is courage everywhere. What this really means is a much brighter financial future—Dr David Clark: Bring on Jo Luxton in Rangitata.Hon JO GOODHEW: —which really should matter to New Zealanders including the Opposition but it appears that maybe it does not. Because what this represents is real change not just throwing more money at a system and at something that is not working. An investment approach really is tough but it is worth it and this Government has the courage to do it. Thank you."