Henderson EmilyDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): Madam Speaker really proud to stand up and take a call on this particular Budget. Not particularly to start to blow my Whangārei trumpet or anything but I think that Whangārei is an excellent example of why this Budget is just so important and why this Budget is such a good one for New Zealanders.Earlier one of the speakers across the House referred to us as a socialist Government. I remembered back I thought back to the 1938 Social Security Act the first one to try and put in place a fully funded public health system where you would not have to pay for your own or go without when you're poor. It was this year $1.3 billion in capital funding into hospitals and health infrastructure in New Zealand bringing the total spend of this Government on health infrastructure to some $6.9 billion and change—let's not forget the change—in the five years since 2017. Now let's give this some context. In their nine years of Government the Opposition put in—wait for it wait for it—$1 billion. Phwoar! Big spenders that they were. In the two years of 2014-2015 they put in—wait for it—zero. In the five years that we have been in Government we have put in almost seven times as much as the members opposite. And let me put that even further into context. I have a hospital in my town a hospital that is 65 years old a hospital where there was excrement running down the walls earlier because it has been so neglected. It is the National health spokesperson across the House who was on our district health board and he presided as electorate MP over two years in my town where not a cent was put into health infrastructure. So I was unbelievably proud to be—virtually—in this House on Budget Day to have confirmed that this Government is actually going to put in the hard yards and rebuild Whangārei Hospital. Hallelujah thank God for this Government.But it's not just in Whangārei in the hospital that I do want to talk about today. I also want to talk about the other access issue. We've got access to healthcare—hallelujah Grant Robertson's going to solve that for Whangārei I am so grateful for that one—but there's also an issue with access to justice and I do want to turn to that. Because one of the aspects of this Government is a $191 million boost to legal aid. That is of such fundamental importance. If there is no access to justice there is injustice. Having spent most of my adult life in the court dealing with people who are in the lower end of the economic spectrum who look at the wages that they have and then the amount they are going to have to pay for legal aid who have been looking at the high threshold that they have to reach to even qualify for legal aid it has been exceptionally difficult. It has been a crime to the way in which our people are able to access our courts. To know that last year our Law Society's Access to Justice survey showed that 25 percent of lawyers who give legal aid services plan to do less of it or get out altogether because of the difficulty of the system the inadequacy of the pay. To know that 20000 Kiwis were turned away from legal aid representation last year and to know that from next year 93000 more Kiwis will be able to access legal aid—that's this Budget that's this Government and I'm so darn proud.