McLellan TraceyDr TRACEY McLELLAN (Labour—Banks Peninsula): Thank you Madam Speaker. Thank you for the chance to make a contribution today in this general debate on one of the most exciting weeks—Budget week—of all weeks. And what a start to the week it's been. On Monday we had climate change Minister James Shaw talking about the emissions reduction plan. Yesterday we had the Hon Andrew Little talking about mental health investments and if we think about today—obviously this afternoon's contributions from the National Party haven't exactly been aspirational but we've certainly had some examples of magical thinking certainly some fuzzy economics we've had some rewriting of history and a couple of examples of things that simply never happened. But getting back to the good stuff. Yesterday it was a real pleasure to be with the Hon Andrew Little as he announced a $100 million investment in the specialist mental health and addiction area. I want to shout-out to Sally and the team at Te Ao Mārama for hosting and for their manaakitanga to really making us feel incredibly welcome and for showing us all of the amazing work that they do. The package includes funding for crisis services for intensive residential and home-based support mainly centred around the strengths of peer-led services and the aroha that's out there to be had and for us to make the most of in our communities. So I really want to acknowledge the Minister for his unwavering commitment to mental health and for his absolute leadership towards doing mental health differently and for understanding mental health differently—including building a new primary model from the ground up which improves access and is for the betterment of all. One of the things I'm looking particularly forward to next week after Budget week will be catching up with Peter and his team at the Ara trades campus in Woolston which is in my patch—the beautiful Banks Peninsula. Amongst the many things that no doubt we'll talk about and catch up about will be the Apprenticeship Boost and the fact that this Government—the Labour Government—have extended that Apprenticeship Boost until the end of 2023 and what that means in terms of supporting an additional 38000 apprenticeships. The key message that we heard from business is that they need more skilled workers and unlike National—after the global financial crisis and particularly after the Christchurch earthquakes—we understood and we understand the importance of investing and training New Zealanders to build our houses to rebuild our houses and to upgrade our infrastructure. And importantly we understand that these things are the things that actually help accelerate our economy and help accelerate our economic recovery. Importantly—and actually vitally—it helps ensure that there's good jobs for all New Zealanders.Our economy is one of the strongest in the world and we've heard from our excellent Minister of Finance—who is well known as a safe pair of hands—that we have record low unemployment at 3.2 percent and our economic activity is up on what it was compared to pre - COVID-19 levels. And that's in a large part because of the investment that this Government has made in training supporting and helping New Zealanders into work.Earlier I mentioned the emissions reduction plan and the announcements that were made on Monday. And on Monday the climate change Minister James Shaw announced New Zealand's first three budgets which I think is an absolute milestone on our journey towards a zero-carbon future. In actually meeting the budgets and in the process of meeting the budgets what we're actually going to create is new industries which is exciting; higher-value jobs which is exciting; lower household energy bills which is exciting; and we're going to achieve a more climate-friendly agricultural sector. We'll have warmer drier homes and the by-product of a lot of that stuff is exciting new technologies which we understand is the driving force for productivity in our economy—not to mention the protection of native species and our ecosystems. So as I said this week is almost certainly one of the most exciting weeks in our parliamentary calendar as we usher in the Budget tomorrow. Despite the fact that—as my colleague Peeni Henare mentioned earlier on—we've heard very little solutions from the other side of the House but on this side of the House we are absolutely focused on the things that we know make a real difference to the lives of everyday New Zealanders. There will be cost savings for businesses and a greater resilience in the face of increasing global uncertainty and I look very much forward to hearing all of the other fabulous details that we will all share in tomorrow.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.