Kanongata'a-Suisuiki AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Fa'afetai i lau afioga Fofoga Fetalai. It's an absolute opportunity to contribute to this Budget debate this afternoon. My speech today is going to be about leadership and it's going to be about thanks and it's going to be about leadership for a once-in-100-year epidemic. So I want to take this opportunity to thank our Prime Minister the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern. I firmly believe that we live in the best country in the world not because I'm bragging but because of the leadership the people at the helm and I want to just say fa'afetai tele to our Prime Minister.We are now celebrating the lowest numbers in a response to this COVID-19. We are now at a stage where we can say Play it safe." So when we look at playing it safe what's the "it"? The "it" is about the leadership of the people who are leading us as a country. The "it" is about the team of 5 million—a team of 5 million. Every day we are comforted in confidence that our leader the right honourable Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is speaking to every individual in the team of 5 million.I want to acknowledge—well the Budget is about leadership. I want to acknowledge the leadership of the finance Minister the Hon Grant Robertson because when we took this journey our books were in very good shape. What do I mean by very good shape? We had the lowest unemployment figures ever—lowest unemployment figures ever. We had a surplus. We were positioned—in the leadership since we took office in 2017—to lead in a once-in-100-year epidemic. I want to thank the honourable Minister of Finance and I want to talk about the $12.1 billion quick response in the lockdown alert level 4 and alert level 3. Why do you want to talk about that? I want to talk about that because it addressed the immediate needs—the wage subsidy addressed the immediate needs. I want to echo the Prime Minister that no one in this country should go hungry—immediate needs in terms of the wage subsidy.Of course we talk time and time again about inequality in this country. We talk about our Māori and Pacific in the same sentence about inequality in this country. Evidence tells us about inequality in this country. But have we seen it done before? No. It is the first time in a hundred years that Pacific and Māori are part of the priority of the Government. Why do I say that? Well there is evidence saying that we are listening. We're listening with our heart not just with the evidence that's been before our face but we're listening with our heart. The $900 million—the $900 million—to try and equal that to Māori tangata whenua in this country. The $105 million to Pacific.English is the language that we speak most often in this country but in the time of crisis people who couldn't understand English needed to be told the crisis and response in the language that they can understand as a team of 5 million. The leadership that it took for the languages to be spoken in our mainstream media is about leadership and is about ensuring that our team of 5 million understood the Government's response in terms of public health.I want to acknowledge what happened in Papakura in terms of the $12.1 billion first response of the Government. I'm the Labour list MP based in Papakura. The Papakura multidisciplinary cross-agency team MDCAT and the leadership of it—it was chaired by Mel Tipene. Every week on a Wednesday they got together: KuraConnect YourPapakura Te Puni Kōkiri the Sikh temple. They got together and they spoke about how do we respond to our community—how do we respond to our community.I want to be able to acknowledge the Minister the Hon Peeni Henare in terms of Whānau Ora. Under that leadership people got the food at the door. It didn't matter what status you had in this country—it didn't matter what status. You were provided with a food parcel at your door by people who knew where the vulnerable people are. So I want to take this acknowledgement of Kathleen Tuai-Taufoou of Siaola Social Services the arm of the Vahefonua Tonga 'o Aotearoa Methodist Church for their contribution in terms of Whānau Ora. And last but not least I want to sing the praises of Daljit Singh who leads the Gurdwara in Takanini the Sikh temple who fed thousands of people in Auckland because the need was there and they could do that because they could rely on the Government—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! The member's time has expired."