Sio Hon Aupito WilliamHon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO (Minister for Courts): Talofa lava Mr Speaker. Manuia le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa. Can I also thank all the members of the House for using the language here. Samoan Language Week is the second of nine Pacific language weeks that will be celebrated this year. As I listened to Mr Todd McClay make his comments earlier I thought thank goodness he's speaking the truth because he was declaring where National stands and their philosophy. They stand for keeping labour costs down at the expense of New Zealanders. They are well-prepared and don't care if they're socialising the cost for business but in so far as the profits—that stays theirs. That whole speech was about reducing labour costs. That's what he spent 10 minutes doing. On this side of the House we are a Government that governs for all New Zealanders. Hon Member: That's right.Hon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO: That's right. We are a Government for all New Zealanders. Remember the wage subsidy? We prioritised business last year. That's right. Are we asking for business to pay that back? No. We're asking business to value workers to ensure their employment and to pay them a decent wage. Do businesses do that? Some of them do but not all of them do. That's why this Government continues to lift the minimum wage—to $20 an hour as it was as of April this year.This Budget I want to say thank goodness that we have a finance Minister that understands the needs of all New Zealanders. This Budget is about securing our recovery from COVID-19. They keep forgetting there is a pandemic here. They keep forgetting and every now and then they lose sight of is this about keeping costs down or is this about prioritising New Zealanders. This side of the House is about prioritising all New Zealanders. We inherited so much harm and damage in the health sector education employment and income because of that very attitude that Mr McClay has talked about: keeping labour costs low at the expense of New Zealanders. So we're having to address the long-term challenges of housing inequality and climate change while we're making sure that we can continue the growth of our economy.A recovery Budget is what this Budget has been about. I want to acknowledge all the Ministers and particularly the leadership of the Prime Minister and Grant Robertson the Minister of Finance because it's been hard to balance the needs of all New Zealanders. But this Budget here is a continuation from the work that we started when we came in in 2017—raising the minimum wage lifting benefits ensuring that we are supporting families with children. In Budget 2021 yes we're raising main benefits but that will enable us to lift an additional 33000 children out of poverty. In total 109000 families with children will be on average $175 a week better off as a result of changes by our Government since 2017. Treasury has forecast that over 200000 more people will be in jobs in the next four years as our economy recovers.For Pacific peoples I'm very proud that Budget 2021 continues the work that the Government allocated—targeted specific support to the Pacific—from 2019 and last year. I want to share something with the House. So you see in 2018 we released a report: The New Zealand Pacific Economy Report. In that report it showed that Pacific peoples contribute $8 billion to New Zealand's GDP despite inequalities despite the barriers. Here's something interesting that we've just learnt: Pacific peoples volunteer 66000 unpaid hours per week and in addition they give not only their time skills and knowledge but also money. Pacific peoples gifted $2.4 million to others over four months. That's about $160 per week per person.I'm so grateful that I'm part of the Government that recognises that in order for all New Zealanders to contribute positively to New Zealand's economy we've got to eliminate these inequalities we've got to eliminate those barriers—because imagine if we do that. Just imagine if we're able to do that the kind of contribution that all New Zealanders can make to Aotearoa New Zealand.