Ngobi TerisaTERISA NGOBI (Labour—Ōtaki): Kia ora Mr Speaker. It's a privilege and honour to be able to enter this debate in anticipation of Budget 2021 tomorrow. I firstly want to acknowledge one of the pre-Budget announcements around cervical screening and the breast screening announcement made by Minister Verrall. Unfortunately we all know someone who has been affected by cervical or breast cancer and so to see this investment by this Government into women into wāhine is a game-changer really and truly. This is going to mean—Hon Member: Life-saver.TERISA NGOBI: Yes absolutely it's lifesaving. This is going to mean many more Māori and many more Pacific but women in general are going to live longer—we're going to survive. So that's just one of the very many game-changers that I can see and I'm hopeful will continue in this recovery and wellbeing Budget. Another real game-changer for us and while we are talking about women's health is this Government's investment into another step in achieving a reduction in poverty including child poverty around the free period products in schools. Now we know that's another massive investment another step towards this Government making sure that we reduce inequality and poverty by making sure that our young kōtiro that our young rangatahi can go to kura during that time because they can now access free period products where before this they were having to stay home. So that also moves into of course this Government's absolute focus on education for all and making sure that especially our more vulnerable and Māori and Pacific kids—making sure that they also get that opportunity to access education. So again another game-changer from this Government. While we are talking about education I'd like to also note another game-changer again—here we go No. 3—from this Government and that is the free school lunches in kura. So again another way to reduce inequality and poverty for our tamariki but it also goes further. Those free school lunches in kura also help our families with our budgets. I know many people who have said even with one child that's almost $50 they're saving in their family's budget per week—again another game-changer because they can use that on other utility bills that are important. But it goes further than that. We were really lucky to have our Labour Party conference on the weekend in the mighty and beautiful Ōtaki electorate. I must say it was raining that morning. Everyone came and the sun came out and it was an amazing weekend with some really great policy great robust speakers and kōrero around how we can continue to make Aotearoa better with this Government. But one of the things we did have and we were able to do is we were able to have the same people who do the free lunches in schools do our lunches because I thought it's important that this Government when you're going to put out a policy like that taste the wares of what they put before our tamariki. So we had exactly what they would have for lunch and I can tell you it was nutritional it kept us up for some of our amazing speakers in the afternoon so we didn't fall asleep it fed our souls it fed our brains and that's what those free lunches do for our tamariki in kura. It feeds their souls and it feeds their brains. But more than that we also make sure that it's nutritional and that we're saving money for their families but we also had—lucky enough—our economic tamariki who came along to support Hamish and his team who do the free lunches in schools. They also talked or their kaiako talked about how it goes further than that. They are also making sure that they support local. They support the local businesses when they buy the local produce to be able to make sure that we feed our tamariki in schools. So again can I just say is that No. 4 or 5—I can't even keep up—of a game-changer that this Government continues to make sure that it invests in all New Zealanders. Lastly they also talked about the business aspect and being able to keep some of those businesses in business while we go through COVID. I know we haven't got much time and there's so many things to talk about but can I just say the last part is around the amazing work of our Minister of Finance the Hon Grant Robertson who continues to manage our coffers so well that we are now looking at a 4.7 percent unemployment rate. Amazing—and again our Ōtaki electorate has benefited from those jobs in our rohe as well. Can I just say well done to Horizons Regional Council who voted in Māori wards. Kia ora.