Salesa Jenny; Watts SimonHon JENNY SALESA (Labour—Panmure-Ōtāhuhu): Talofa lava Madam Chair and thank you for the call. Manuia le vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa and that is where I would like to begin my contribution my questions this morning.The comment from the Minister that everyone or 90 percent or so have access to the internet actually does not address the fact that some people including Samoans and Tongans may not be literate in English. They may be fully literate in Samoan they may be fully literate in Tongan but that does not actually necessarily mean that they are literate in English. That is actually one of the questions I'd like to pose to the Minister. How is this Government going to address the cultural and linguistic needs of Pacific families in relation to the FamilyBoost tax credit? Are there any materials and assistance available in languages other than English?I would like to refer to the census data that has just come out two days ago which actually shows that Pacific people make up 442632 people in Aotearoa New Zealand today—an increase of 16 percent compared to the last census figures in 2018. So we're talking about a huge number of the population.The other thing that we need to also consider is more than 50 percent of Pacific people actually have young families. So when you look at the regulatory impact statement one of the things that it actually covers is the fact that in paragraph 31 any Government support targeted at alleviating early childhood education (ECE) costs will provide a reduced benefit to Māori and Pasifika families due to these groups being less likely to pay for childcare either due to ECE subsidies covering the cost already or to lower ECE participation.I'm sure it is actually the intent of this Government—any Government—to ensure that we have better participation for early childhood because it is to all of our benefit that we encourage as many families as possible to ensure that they have their children participating in early childhood. But here's the thing: not as many of our families do participate in early childhood whether we're talking about Māori families or Pasifika families and if we're looking at South Auckland quite a lot of our ethnic community families as well. If we're to look back at the census data the highest rate of increase is our ethnic families those who are new migrants to our country. We know that they are going to continue to be the fastest-growing population in Aotearoa New Zealand.So the question that I pose about Pasifika families also equally applies to ethnic families. Is the Government going to ensure that the materials that they're going to provide will ensure that our ethnic families know how to actually access this FamilyBoost credit so that they can actually ensure that they can claim this tax?Giving families who are really busy—especially families with two or three or four kids—who may not necessarily be literate in English and who may not actually have access to the internet an extra task of how to claim this funding is actually not fair. It is not fair. There I'm sure would have been a better way of ensuring that this kind of support from Government is something that many more of our families could actually claim.Another question I would have is: how are we going to ensure that those who do not currently participate in the online platforms or in traditional media know that this FamilyBoost is even an option to them? Many of our ethnic communities do not necessarily watch our mainstream media whether it's TV. They have their own ethnic community radios. How is this Government going to ensure that they will know this is something that they can claim? Are they going to also translate materials into all of the major ethnic community languages that we should? Those are the questions I would like to pose the Minister. Thank you.Hon SIMON WATTS (Minister of Revenue): Yeah I thank the member for the question. The Inland Revenue already provides a wide range of language support services. If customers are not fluent in English then their family members can support them to call 0800 700 334—that's 0800 700 334. That'll go through the IRD department and a language interpreter including those that are able to speak Samoan will be available to walk through those constituents to help them with the FamilyBoost policy. You can get more information on IRD's website.