Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Thank you Madam Speaker. You've got to be alert at this time of night I guess for the general debate so if others aren't interested in the opportunity I will take the opportunity to take a call in this evening's general debate which is usually held in the afternoon. I want to focus my short contribution in the general debate this evening on some exciting things that happened in my wonderful electorate of Nelson last week. Alongside having an opportunity to attend Fieldays and join the thousands of people who had a useful shopping experience at the Swanndri shop we had some exciting developments in Nelson that I do want to share with the House tonight. The first was that we turned the sod—but with a digger—for the development at Port Nelson for our new slipway upgrade which has been a project that has had a lot of planning involved in it and has been many years in the making; Port Nelson and Nelson City Council have been working on plans to upgrade the slipway for a very long time. People may not be aware of this but Port Nelson is the largest seafood processing port in Australasia—it is a huge part of the Nelson economy it creates thousands of jobs and I'm really proud as the granddaughter of a mariner to be able to continue supporting the work that happens at Port Nelson. The Government has put nearly $10 million into the upgrade of the Nelson slipway which will help to enable marine engineering jobs to be created and ensure that we can bring the right boats into the port for both processing of seafood but also for maintenance. This sits alongside other investment we've made recently that I'm really proud to have advocated for—$2.5 million to the wonderful SnapIT company who kicked off a lot of the work around cameras and boats in New Zealand and are doing amazing work on the world stage alongside support for our new oceans and fisheries cluster with a number of companies working together to grow jobs in the oceans and fisheries sector so that was a wonderful occasion. The following day we had another wonderful occasion on an issue that is dear to my heart and that is housing. It was an emotional day to attend and open 14 beautiful new homes that have been built through the Government's Progressive Home Ownership Scheme where we've put $3 million into this project. Of those homes 12 will be what we call rent-to-buy homes and being able to walk through the homes with the children see the smiles on the faces of the families who painted the inside of the homes; to see the pride that they had in these homes that are theirs. There was one young woman who had been living in a damp mouldy home with her young son with respiratory issues and to see him knowing that he was going to have this beautiful warm sunny dry home; it was one of the best days that I've had as the local MP. We are doing a lot of work around social and community housing in Nelson. In the last week Kāinga Ora have announced 49 homes to go into my community where I live—of Nelson South—alongside another 16 into Nelson City. On Friday I'm looking forward to spending part of the day visiting a number of new projects run by the Nelson Tasman Housing Trust some of which are being supported through Government funding as well. So in total there's nearly 100 homes that have either just been completed are currently being built or are in the planning stage over the next couple of years in the social and community housing sector and I just want to note that in Budget 2023 the Government committed to funding for another 3000 public homes so it is going to make a real difference to my community of Nelson. I'm also looking forward to some changes coming to our public transport system on 1 August which has been a shared project between Government and local government where we'll get more buses running more frequently and to more locations and sitting alongside the Government's commitment to make public transport free for under-13-year olds and half-price for those under 25 this is going to make a huge difference to people's ability to access alternative forms of transport. So it's always a wonderful opportunity to take a short call and just celebrate the achievements of our Labour Government in my wonderful sunny electorate of Nelson.