Henderson EmilyDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): [Uses sign language] Thank you Mr Speaker. I want to start my short call by following on from my colleague Terisa Ngobi first in saying as I stand here beside the desk of our colleague Kiritapu Allan: wāhine Smear Your Mea—may I just say that now and wear that and tautoko that. Support your women to do it because it is so important. I am so delighted that this country's Government has actually taken the step of doing something that is going to save women's lives with the investment in cervical screening. That is what a Budget that puts wellbeing into a crucial place looks like.I want to talk about another of those initiatives that this Government used last year that is making a real measurable difference to the lives of tamariki all over New Zealand. I want to talk about the difference it is making to lives in my home town in Whangārei.On Monday I was at a little primary school on the southern outskirts of Whangārei a place called Ruakaka School. It has about 250 kids. It is growing extremely rapidly. They have 60 staff doing an amazing job. When I went out there to talk to the principal and to talk to the staff I asked them about the school lunch programme. Principal Marilyn Dunn said to me I'm almost tearing up here. The programme is fantastic." What they have done is they have four people from whānau in the community locally who have been employed on a part-time basis to make school lunches for those 250-odd kids every day. I went to visit those people and I saw them in their workplaces and I saw an awesome selection of salad and ham sandwiches blueberry muffins that were delicious and I heard about the difference it is making to the kids' attention span; to kids who previously did not last the afternoon who now maintain mood and behaviour throughout the day and who are able to keep learning; to whānau who are now employed who previously were not. I saw the pride and the commitment on the faces of those women at Ruakaka School on Monday and how well they are serving their community our community and our tamariki.I heard of the stories at Tikipunga High School another low-decile school in my community and actually the high school I went to. I went and spoke to the principal there and what he talked to me about was the fact that demand is such that they have had to put on an extra lunch sitting to cope with the kids who want to come and have their healthy lunches—again provided within that school by a local mum who has now got a job thanks to this Government; talk about doing double duty.I want to talk about what it is meaning for the providers who rather than the schools employing people directly they are the schools—and many of them 22 out of the 40-odd schools in Whangārei are getting school lunches; about 15000 kids over Te Tai Tokerau. The other way we are doing it is we are employing businesses within the community. One of those businesses is an outfit called Food for Life. This is a Hare Krishna outfit run by a gentleman called Buddhi. I had spent some time with Buddhi before this programme was announced and what I know from him is that he was providing with volunteers and donations and fund-raising 1000 healthy school lunches to schools in Whangārei before this happened. They were awesome schools they were awesome lunches I have been there and helped him dish out. He is doing 3000 lunches now and rather than a handful of volunteers working daily and wondering whether they are going to be able to afford what they are doing for the kids who need it he is now employing 10 staff above minimum wage in Whangārei. That is 10 people who didn't have jobs before and 2000 extra kids who are getting healthy lunches every single day.That is what it looks like when a Government puts its people first when it is making its financial decisions. I am so looking forward to tomorrow's Budget and continuing the good work that we are doing to support our people in the recovery of this—not just from COVID but of our country.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."