Wedd CatherineCATHERINE WEDD (National—Tukituki): Look I'd just like to start my contribution today by referring to the bus drivers that the member on the other side of the House spoke about earlier because today is a historic day for bus drivers and all hard-working New Zealanders. Today after 14 years those bus drivers and the hard-working New Zealanders are getting tax relief—yes tax relief. In fact 83 percent of New Zealanders will from today be paying less tax. Because on this side of the House we respect hard-working New Zealanders. Kiwis earn their money and they should be able to keep more of what they earn and not have it wastefully spent by ideological projects—$1.2 billion on three waters Te Pūkenga all sorts of wasteful spending that doesn't get delivery doesn't get results; just wasting taxpayers' money.The previous Government wanted to tax tax tax—that's how they thought they would get our economy back on track—and spend spend spend. Well today is about respecting the work of hard-working New Zealanders—the tradies the hairdressers the supermarket workers the nurses the teachers who are all struggling to pay their grocery bills their electricity bills and their fuel bills. But now today they will be better off and they will be able to afford more as they can keep more of what they earn. In fact the average household in New Zealand will be getting $102 more a fortnight. That is a significant difference in a cost of living crisis. And a FamilyBoost package—all those families out there with children. Childcare has been going up and childcare costs are expensive.The other week I was just at the BestStart early childhood centre in Hastings and the parents there were really really welcoming this tax rebate. It's just going to make it easier for them to be able to afford their childcare. Parents and families out there are struggling in this cost of living crisis and today is about respecting low to middle income earning families.This is all part of our plan to strengthen the economy. We're already seeing some green shoots: 3.3 percent inflation recently announced the lowest that we've seen in the last couple of year. On this side of the House we spend money wisely. We get more value out of the money we are spending. We are fiscally managing we've got discipline and care for New Zealanders and we are into reducing the cost of living for many many families out there. Driving productivity; getting the wheels moving again—that's what's going to strengthen our economy.Let's just talk about the taxes that we have scrapped actually since we became the Government and we are being a lot more wise with our money. The ute tax. What a stupid tax that was. It wasn't fair on rural and provincial New Zealand on our tradies and on our farmers—scrapped that. Taking agriculture out of the emissions trading scheme—again punishing our hard-working farmers. Getting rid of the Auckland regional fuel tax. Restoring interest deductibility so we can see our rents go down and more housing supply. Getting things built in this country—all about delivery.Look when I get back to the electorate I enjoy getting out of Wellington and into the real world into provincial New Zealand. On Friday I got out of the bureaucracy of Wellington and I got down to central Hawke's Bay. I spent time down there looking at the issues spending time with our farmers and our contractors on the road and seeing the huge investment that we're now putting back into infrastructure in this country into roading into the potholes maintaining our rural roads building State highways. This is what gets people around faster and more efficiently and will drive more productivity for our regions. Our regions have been neglected in the past six years. It is time to put some focus back into our regions like Hawke's Bay where we've seen our farmers facing an avalanche of red tape rules regulation costs high inflation high interest rates—it's been tough out there.Just on Monday I was at the New Zealand Apples & Pears Annual Conference with our growers and they are once again feeling like we're being aspirational—we're being aspirational for provincial New Zealand. No longer are we villainising our farmers and rural communities. And it's about time.