Coffey TamatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I really hope that somebody gives that member Nicola Willis a hug because she needs one because she doesn't understand just how good this Budget was. Now I get it. The job of the Opposition is to oppose everything that the Government does but actually in the last week that I've been travelling around the Waiariki—the Bay of Plenty—speaking to our communities there has been nothing but praise for Budget 2021. Granted I reached out and spoke to a lot of Māori communities about how they felt about the Budget and there was a lot for support. Some said it's been a very long time since the Government has spent money like this on Māori initiatives but the key change in this Budget is that we are investing in solutions that are by Māori and for Māori. Our Māori organisations have been waiting for a very long time for the kind of Budget that we were able to deliver two weeks ago and we're going to continue obviously this brilliant streak that we're on.I want to also acknowledge a good friend of mine. His name's Paora Stanley—call him a miffed National Party voter. Once upon a time he loved the National Party but he's fallen off the wagon because he's realised that they're divided they're distracted and actually he's got nowhere to go but to actually look at what we've delivered in Budget 2021 and he's full of praise—full of praise because I went out there and I talked to our whānau around the Waiariki. Specifically I had some great conversations with Ngā Pōtiki-a-Tamapāhore which is an iwi in Tauranga Moana who have been doing some great things already. They have got a housing strategy and as an iwi they saw the opportunity that we were presenting with the kind of investment that we were talking about into Māori housing: $380 million for Māori housing. They see the benefits of that. There is also $350 million carved out of that wider infrastructure spend to be able to assist Māori with that infrastructure as well—which can be crippling as we try to realise our aspirations—by using their under-utilised land that we have so long wanted to utilise. So Ngā Pōtiki were pretty excited about that. I want to tell another story about heading over to Whakatāne and talking to Te Puna Ora o Mataatua and how excited they were about the health reforms that were coming up. They were stoked about the idea of the Māori Health Authority and told the story that when it came to contestable funding for health they found themselves often in a very long line. They felt as though as Treaty partners they should have their own line and it should be shorter and it should be funded because that's what Te Tiriti promised them. So they were very surprised and pleased that we would be establishing the Māori Health Authority. That's something that this Government have done because we know that for too long we've been trying to create solutions for Māori not letting Māori create those solutions for themselves. So the pleasure that I got in sitting there in front of them talking about the formation of the Māori Health Authority was significant. I wanted to mihi to them specifically because as we're rolling out the COVID vaccinations all across the country they're the ones that are doing the job in the Eastern Bay of Plenty to be able to roll out COVID vaccinations. I got the pleasure of walking around their COVID vaccination centre in the middle of Whakatāne and I saw the well-oiled machine that they had going on in there. It was brilliant to be able to see it. But what happened was that as we were walking through they were showing me how it happened—how they reached out to kuia and how they reached out to kaumātua for the first time but also being able to get them in again for their second vaccine—and they were really pleased about what they were able to deliver for the people that they represent. So I was able to talk to them about how the vaccination programme through Budget 2021 is going to continue to be rolled out. People over there will say that it's not being rolled out fast enough but you know what? This is the year of the vaccine. We're going to do it we've appropriated the money for it and it's what New Zealand is expecting. I want to finish off just by acknowledging the $527 million that has gone into the expansion of the free healthy school lunches programme because while we're putting money into health and while we're putting money into housing while we're putting money into education I actually got to go into Tauhara Primary School in Taupō and see the great difference that it's making to those kids. You know many families struggle with being able to feed their kids and actually that programme has been a game-changer. I went to Ka Pai Kai in Rotorua who once upon a time only a few years ago were rolling out about 300 lunches by the generosity of donors around the Rotorua community. Now they're rolling out about 6000 lunches around the whole of the Bay of Plenty and they have nothing but praise for an expansion of that programme but also Budget 2021. It's a good thing and I support it.