Nash StuartHon STUART NASH (Minister of Revenue): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. It's an absolute pleasure to be part of a Government with a vision—with a vision for New Zealand out into the future. When that member Melissa Lee talks about Whatever happened to doctors visits?" well I can inform the member that doctors visits are now free for everyone 14 years old and under. For 600000 more Kiwis it is between $20 and $30 cheaper—that is what happens to doctors visits because we care about Kiwis. We understand if you fund the health system in a way that keeps people healthy you keep people out of hospital. This is a Government that is concentrating on the health and wellbeing of all our communities. It's absolutely fantastic. The initiatives that are coming through they're not about one year they're not about two years; they're generational—generational change. That's what Government is about—it's what this Government is about anyway.I hold four rather diverse portfolios and I'd like to talk a little bit about what this Budget means for my portfolios and the key stakeholders. First of all let's look at the Inland Revenue Department. The Inland Revenue Department is in the process of implementing the largest systems change the largest transformation in the history of the State sector: $1.8 billion on business transformation over a five-year project.Release three was rolled out in April this year and since that time at the end of April a quarter of a billion—$250 million—in refunds have been paid to Kiwis without them having to apply for it. This is this Government returning Kiwis' money back to them. That is absolutely fantastic and there's a whole lot more to come. The release next year is release four and the following year is release five and at that stage we will have a transformational inland revenue system that is here to help. It is making a real difference in terms of pay-day filing.The level of information that the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) now has means that when people are paying too much tax they can actually get a call from IRD—or their employer gets a call—saying "Hey you're paying too much tax. How about we go on this tailored tax code?" and you pay the right amount at that point in time. They don't have to wait until the end of the year or they don't have to use a tax agent to actually get their money back. It's about putting money back into the back pockets—Alastair Scott: A great National Party initiative—great National Party.Hon STUART NASH: —of good hard-working Kiwis. It is absolutely fantastic Alastair Scott and the people of Wairarapa will be very very happy about it.Now let's talk about police. Let's talk about the number of police that we're rolling out around the country. But before I do I want to just reiterate this $1.9 billion into mental health. The reason I'm talking about this in the same breath as police is because the police service sees the front end of this every single day. They are dealing with the suicides the attempted suicides and the mental health cases because there's nowhere else for these people to go because the system is so run down that the first people that are called are the New Zealand Police service. That is wrong. This is going to make a huge difference to the way that the police operate in this country and it's fantastic to see. I congratulate Dr Clark and the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance for that $1.9 billion investment in mental health. But in police services themselves there's an extra $260 million—an extra $260 million. Fantastic.Now let me talk about some of the initiatives. We are going to get rid of the most dangerous guns that are designed primarily to kill people. You don't need an AR-15 and you don't need an AK-47 if you want to pot a deer shoot a duck go after a rabbit—Todd Muller: A billion bucks later.Hon STUART NASH: —or hunt. You don't—a billion dollars later? We're going to take these guns out of our community.I spoke to a guy called Simon Mount QC. Now Simon Mount QC worked with Justice Thorp on the Thorp report in 1997. What the Thorp report did was it made a whole lot of recommendations that are very very similar to the recommendations that we're looking at at the moment. Simon Mount QC said that if these recommendations had been implemented back when we made them in 1997 he very much doubts that we would've had 51 dead on 15 March. This is going to be transformational and we are going to take these guns out of our community because they are not necessary they are not needed and we heard that from a whole range of stakeholders. There's $150 million in the Budget for that. The finance Minister has said if we need any more money for that then we will find it but we think that's probably enough money to do it—Simeon Brown: Probably enough?Hon STUART NASH: —and it's vitally important that we do. You don't agree with this Simeon Brown? You think we should leave these guns in our community? Well you're an outlier—I can tell you that. You're an outlier because the vast majority of people do support it.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order! Don't bring me into it thank you.Hon STUART NASH: Sorry Madam Deputy Speaker. That member is an outlier because the vast majority of Kiwis think we don't need these guns that are designed primarily to kill people. It's a great initiative.There's also $45 million to tackle family and sexual violence. This is the nation's shame. We have rates that are one of the highest in the OECD and we need to do something about it. We absolutely need to.Angie Warren-Clark: We do.Hon STUART NASH: You know what I'm talking about when it comes to this. Again the police are at the front end of this. Every single day they are attending family violence callouts and it is just wrong.What police do is a whole lot of proactive stuff. It's about preventing family violence. It's about getting there before it starts. It's about putting processes in place to ensure that when there's a fuse that's about to be lit the men and women who are perpetrators understand that there are other options. This stuff has been trialled and it is working. It is working and it's important that we roll this out even further.What else are we doing? Well we're on target to train an extra 900 men and women into our police service in the next financial year. Now that is fantastic. This year we had a record 856 officers enter into our police service. I know that as a former Minister of Police—Hon Peeni Henare: In the communities that need them.Hon STUART NASH: —you'll understand how important that is. As you say Mr Henare into the communities that need them. Policing is about perception and when you have police embedded in the community working really hard with key stakeholders preventing crime but also going after the bad guys then people feel safe. We broke a record set in 1996-97 when there were 680. We did 856. We're going to do 900 next year. This is meeting a promise: we said 1800 more police. It is making a real difference to our communities and I'm incredibly proud and it's a real privilege to be the Minister of Police at such a time when we're making a really big difference.Let me tell you a story—and Madam Deputy Speaker you'll know the gentleman I'm talking about.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Don't bring me into it.Hon STUART NASH: The Mayor of Napier is a bit of an insomniac at times and he has this radio beside his bed. Every now and again I'll get a call from the mayor saying "Do you know what your police were up to last night? I heard on the radio scanner they're doing this that and everything else." What I'm saying is the integrity of the police communication system across a lot of New Zealand is such that it is just not secure. We need to invest money to get a secure communication system and we're doing that. It should've been done a while ago but we're investing in it now. So that's going to be fantastic.In fisheries the Prime Minister and I stood on the wharf down in Auckland on Friday and launched stage one of cameras on boats. Now this is really cool. This is really fantastic. This is not just about compliance even though compliance is a part of it; this is also about enhancing and building our global brand. This is about when people are overseas at the ultra-premium end of the market and they're buying New Zealand seafood they will know that that seafood has come from the only fully sustainably managed ocean in the world. This is transformational and the work that we are doing really is going to make a big difference and it's an exciting time to be the Minister of Fisheries—of that there's no doubt.Small business—well where do I start there? There's a whole lot of stuff in the small business space. We're cutting compliance costs. We have Business Connect—we've got money in this Budget for Business Connect. Now that is going to make a real difference to businesses that interact with local and central government. It's going to drive efficiency. It's going to free up more time for business owners to grow their business if that's what they want to do or just spend more time with their families and friends if that's what they want to do. But what we are about in this Government is driving efficiency in a way that makes a real difference but also is a lot more profitable.This Wellbeing Budget is about changing the communities we serve. This Wellbeing Budget is about putting more police into our communities. It's about looking after the mental health and wellbeing of our communities. It's about those who are struggling day to day not having to pay school donations. When you get international observers who have no buy-in to what we're doing here—they're not conflicted in any way shape or form—coming out and saying this is a blueprint for the way—Hon Peeni Henare: Branson.Hon STUART NASH: —the world should do things or Richard Branson for goodness' sake—you would hardly call him a Labour man—coming out and saying it's a blueprint we know we're on the right track. But not only are the international pundits talking about this as transformational as evolutionary as revolutionary the thing that I really care about and the reason that I'm so proud about being in this Government is that this Budget is actually going to make a difference to the men and women in our communities those who every day go to work who have got kids who are putting food on the table and petrol in the car and who are looking for work—because there are 70000 more Kiwis in work than there was. This is a fantastic Budget and I'm very proud to be part of the Government that's delivered it. Thank you very much."