Henare PeeniHon PEENI HENARE (Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector): I recommend getting that member David Bennett a ghost mop for his ghost tears. Here is a member claiming that on this side of the House we don't care about New Zealanders. Well I'm really proud to say on this side of the House that the Budget delivered in the past few days has definitely delivered for New Zealanders far and wide. Before I continue on in my applause for the great Minister of Finance the Hon Grant Robertson I just want to pause and reflect and say in Te Reo Māori ki a koe e te pāpā e Te Murumārā te toa o te reo Māori kua ngaro atu ki roto i ngā rangi kua taha ake nei e tangi mōteatea ana tō taonga tō tātou taonga a Te Reo Māori mōu kua ngaro atu ki te pō. Nō reira mai i a mātou o te Whare nei ki a koe haere haere haere.[To our esteemed elder John Moorfield the champion of Māori language who has passed away in the last few days your treasure nay our treasure the Māori language laments your passing. From the House we say farewell sir farewell farewell.]I just wanted to acknowledge Professor John Moorfield otherwise known as Te Murumāra who was passionate about Te Reo Māori. I think his passing actually reminds me of Matariki. Why is because of this: in our Budget recently we have made provision to ensure that Te Reo Māori—the resources the teachers needed to teach Te Reo Māori—will be strengthened. We have also made allocation in the Budget to ensure that in the words of the Associate Minister of Education we grow tohunga and speakers to fill taumata marae across Aotearoa New Zealand." Now those are bold steps steps that will address long-held issues and needs within my community and small Māori communities far and wide.I'm proud. I'm proud that we've started this journey to make sure that—it's easy all fair and well to say "Let's have compulsory Te Reo Māori in schools." and I agree that's an ambition but we must make the first steps. In order to do that we must provide a Budget that will allow the growth of Te Reo Māori teachers the growth of Te Reo Māori resources so that kids of all ethnicities throughout Aotearoa New Zealand will benefit from having a richness of language that I was able to benefit from as a young person.I'm proud. I'm proud that those steps have been taken in education. I'm also proud around housing. Many members on this side of the House have already mentioned it: emergency housing. We have a plan on this side of the House to address the housing crisis. Primarily that's around supply. But what we know is right now in particular in my electorate of Tāmaki Makaurau there is an urgent need for emergency housing. We need more beds. We need more places. We need more good community providers who are willing to step forward and help our most needy in our community: those who sleep rough; those who sleep on the street. I'm proud that in our Budget not only did we deliver the building foundations for fixing the housing crisis we are also solving the problem at the sharp end of the stick. What is that? That's emergency housing—significant funds to grow bed placements and significant funds to support those who are already working in this space are just one part of a fantastic Budget.I want to talk too about the member who gave his contribution before me because he constantly talked about rehabilitation and reintegration. Can I acknowledge the good work of my colleague here the Hon Willie Jackson and the good people of Manukau Urban Māori Authority (MUMA) and their work that they have done to reintegrate whānau who have come out of prisons back into our community. How dare that member accuse this side of the House of not caring about the rehabilitation of prisoners. On that side of the House over nine years they locked up more people than they rehabilitated. They put more money and effort into locking them up than rehabilitating them and reintegrating them back into our communities. I'm proud of the work that the likes of MUMA do. I'm proud of the work that many organisations across Aotearoa do. But what they've always said to us is that there must be a better plan. There must be a better way forward. Do not build a bigger mega-prison—do not do it. What we need to look at are the contributing factors that actually push our people into prisons. What we also need to look at are those rehabilitation services that are needed to reintegrate those people back into our community so that they can give meaningful contribution to our communities and to our society. That is a plan that I'm proud that on this side of the House we've been developing.And of course in our Budget we deliver on some of those things. We know that it's not going to be solved with one single shot. It's not going to be a silver bullet that is going to actually—how shall we say—solve everything in our country. What we know is it's going to take planning. And in the Budget that was delivered by the Hon Grant Robertson there's certainly the foundation for greater things which gives me excitement. It makes me believe that there's aspiration for our country into the future. In order for that to happen we must of course rebuild those foundation stones that have been stripped away over many many years.Another area—and I want to touch on this also—is of course youth. I'm proud to be the Minister for Youth and I know that in the Budget there's an allocation to reintroduce something that was taken away under the last Government. That side of the House have always said "you must make decisions on sound data research." Well guess what? On this side of the House we're bringing that back in particular for young people. We're bringing back the research programme that was taken away under the last Government to make sure that young people are heard and to make sure that decision makers on this side of the House know what our young people need and what they deserve. I'm excited that that funding has been reintroduced to make sure that that particular piece of work and research will be undertaken again and that the decisions made for the benefit of young far and wide will be ones made on sound research and of course sound data.In the few minutes I have left I want to talk about Whānau Ora. Now it's been mentioned in this House that Whānau Ora has missed out in the Budget. Well that's the classic siloed approach of looking at things. I say to that side of the House that whānau ora isn't funding; whānau ora is a concept of well-being for our people. It isn't simply a vote that's given in the Budget. Whānau Ora is about housing Whānau Ora is about health Whānau Ora is about education—that is Whānau Ora. I'm really proud as the Minister for Whānau Ora that we are undertaking a review to make sure that the role that Whānau Ora providers play across the country can only enhance the good work that was announced in this Budget. I'm proud of that. I'm proud of all of the people out there that work hard to make sure that Whānau Ora in its entirety actually delivers for our people.People get caught up on numbers and I'm proud that over the past few years Whānau Ora have had an outreach to approximately 12000 families—12000 families. Here's what I want to say to that side of the House: if we do things right to rebuild housing health and education guess what? Whānau Ora will reach far more families right across the spectrum—right across the spectrum. Whānau Ora providers are already saying they're proud of this Budget because what are the key issues they see when they go into families? Poor health services and healthcare. What else do they see? Lack of education opportunities. What else do they see? Housing issues many of which have already been raised in this House: mould on ceilings and poor dilapidated houses that make families sick. Whānau Ora providers far and wide are saying that this Budget is taking us in the right direction.In the final minute can I just say—and reiterate the point—that rebuilding a house that's broken and torn down actually takes time. We have now put in the foundations and the Prime Minister was right today when she said we can look forward to at least another eight Budgets into the future to make sure that this country is headed in the right direction. I'm excited. I'm excited for the championing of the regions. I'm excited for our Minister of Education doing the hard yards. I'm excited for this side of the House who are aspirational for our people and I can't wait to see what the next Budget will bring."