Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (Minister of Defence): I just want to open by saying that actually I personally am very proud to be a Kiwi. I was very fortunate that the Prime Minister appointed me the Minister of Defence which has allowed me to travel and represent our country offshore in the last 6 weeks. It has reminded me just how lucky we are with what we have back here in New Zealand. I am proud to be a Kiwi and actually when it comes down to it we do care about each other. We do look after one another.My own family suffered a tragedy when we lost my brother Sean to mental illness and one of the things that I have worked on very hard myself from that date is trying to create more awareness in the police service—because at the time I was in the police service—and we have come a long long way. I am trying to create more awareness in our communities in terms of being more accepting and understanding that a mental illness or depression is no different from a broken arm or a broken leg—it is just that it is not as visible. We have come a long way.We now have got mental health facilities that are in the community that are providing services to our people in the community so that they do not have to leave the community if they feel safe and happier and 10 years 20 years ago we did not have that. We have got a mental health service down at North Shore Hospital that I am proud of that delivers a very good service. Yes we should always be looking at ways to do better. Yes we can make improvements and we have got to keep making improvements. But as a country we should be quite proud at how far we have come.On that note I just want to point to four key elements in the Budget and can I acknowledge Minister Joyce and his first Budget in delivering what I think is a Budget for New Zealand—for everyone to be able to participate in and to be able to enjoy the fact that yes we are a small country down at the bottom of the world; yes we have to engage we have to trade and engage in a wider global community but we actually do very well. We are seeing good growth in our economy and actually when we have good growth in the economy that is what allows us to make choices. That is what actually gives us the income. That is what gives us the revenue as a country to be able to invest into the areas that we need to invest in to be able to assist and support our growth and assist and support and allow us to realise our own aspiration as a country.I want to point to the $3.9 billion in investment over 4 years in New Zealand's health sector. My own electorate of Rodney is very well served by North Shore Hospital which is down in Takapuna. That is the hospital that I used myself as a kid growing up and I have to say that if we had to go to the A & E room we probably understood that we were facing anything from a 2- to a 4-hour wait before we were able to actually be taken through and seen by a doctor.Carmel Sepuloni: Now what—2 to 4 days?Hon MARK MITCHELL: I can say now—well that was my experience when we used North Shore Hospital. I do not know what the member's experience was but I am just telling you that was my own personal experience of having used the hospital. I can say now with great confidence that every single one of my constituents who has to access the support and the services at North Shore Hospital comes away raving about the staff and raving about the service that they get. I am actually really proud of our North Shore Hospital. I am proud of the staff there and I am proud of the services that are delivered to the people of my electorate in Rodney.There is $1.1 billion for schools and early childhood centres. Again Warkworth is growing and will continue to grow and it has needed some pretty major investment—not just into rebuilding for example the Warkworth school on the junior side and the senior side but also there is quite a big expansion plan to be able to absorb the growth we are going to experience up there over the next 5 years. That has happened. That has happened because you have had a principal and staff you have had a chair of the board of trustees and a board of trustees who have worked extremely well with the ministry and have been supported by the Associate Minister at the time Nikki Kaye. We have seen a world-class school; certainly the junior side we have already been up there and opened that and now there is work starting on the senior side.We have just seen an announcement this week that Ōrewa will be getting a new primary school. We need that because we are growing. That growth of course comes with challenges. We have to invest in services we have to keep up to date in terms of the development of our infrastructure and we are as a country catching up on that without a doubt. I think everyone would agree that we have got decades of under-investment and we are catching up with that now with some big significant investment in infrastructure. But we are getting a new school.We are getting new roads. We have seen the work now that has begun on our Pūhoi to Wellsford road of national significance. That is a $700 million investment—Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi: How much is that?Hon MARK MITCHELL: $700 million. Everyone is extremely excited about that. The work has already begun and that is going to bring Northland—not just north Rodney but Northland—even closer in terms of having access to the economy and our main port in Auckland.There is $1.2 billion for law and order. As the Associate Minister of Justice I have got the responsibility for our Youth Crime Action Plan. We have seen $46.9 million that has been directly allocated to reduce burglary and youth offending and you have already heard some very good announcements from the Deputy Prime Minister around a coordinated effort from the police in terms of increased foot patrols—everyone likes seeing a beat cop out on the beat. They have got a dedicated task force combined with other measures that shopkeepers are going to be able to use to make the shop less—target-harden it so it becomes less desirable for these offenders to go in there and actually try to commit a robbery. We have got $803 million over 4 years for other social services.Can I just come to Defence very quickly. There is $982 million in a funding boost for Defence. This is critically important. The other thing that has become very obvious to me as the new incoming Minister is the outstanding work that our New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel do not just offshore not just globally but here in New Zealand. There has been no clearer example of that than when we have had to deal with our own challenges and struggles around the Kaikōura earthquake the Christchurch earthquake and adverse weather events. Our Defence Force personnel are always there to just quietly respond and do whatever needs to be done to make sure that the people the victims have got the services and the support that they need.We see what they do offshore in our own backyard the Asia-Pacific. We have got one of our offshore patrol boats up in Fiji at the moment. I was talking with the Fijian Minister at Shangri-La. I cannot tell you how much they appreciate having us up there training them working alongside them and giving them a capability to actually look after their own economic zone. I think as of yesterday they had patrolled about 2000 square miles they had boarded about 18 vessels and they are making a real impact in terms of policing their own economic zone.Can I acknowledge our troops—the troops who have just come home from our operation in Taji and the ones who have just arrived—and the work that they are doing up there which is internationally recognised as being critically important in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They have trained over 22000 Iraqi troops now who have left our camp after our training as far more effective far more skilled units that are far more aware of the rules of engagement and their fire discipline which is important because that is how they generate the support of the communities that they are liberating from ISIS.So I want to acknowledge them and the work that they are doing. To give you an indication of the success that we are having up there the Iraqi troops have been able to liberate over 60000 square kilometres of territory that was held by ISIS. That has meant that 1.7 million Iraqis are back in their homes and 250000 children are back at school again all as a result of the contribution that our people are making up there at Camp Taji. So I want to acknowledge them—both the people who have come home and our troops who have just deployed up there.I want to acknowledge David Shearer and the work that he is doing in Sudan. He has got a big job—a tough job—and he has come to us and he has asked for some more support. We have got an NZDF officer who will be heading up there shortly to go up there and get on the ground with him get alongside him and see what else we can do to help him up there. I want to acknowledge the four staff we have up there currently—two based in Juba and another couple who are in some outstations. They are doing an outstanding job.I want to acknowledge our 35 army engineers who were up in Sinai recently. I see I have run out of time but thank you very much.