SpeechANNA LORCK (Labour—Tukituki): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'm boostered and back into it and so I'm pleased to be standing today to speak to the Prime Minister's statement and make a significant speech for the regions. It's because of the regions and what's happening in regions like mine in Tukituki—Hastings—where it's coming from where we are building back stronger and better. As part of this I've been hearing about all the doom and gloom from the other side of the House so I thought I'd better give some actual facts around what's happening in Hastings. Gross domestic product: up 5.7 percent. Consumer spending: up 9 percent. Tourism expenditure: up 22.6 percent. Residential consents: 12.8 percent up on last year. Non-residential consents: 59.1 percent up. Now let's talk car registrations. Cars: up 18.5 percent. What about commercial vehicles? Up 41 percent. Then unemployment down to 3.7 percent and employment up 2 percent. These are real stats real figures and if we want to talk about figures and statistics let me tell you about how we are leading on the home front in Hastings. Hastings: 438 social houses are being built in Hastings right now. That's 135 for Flaxmere; 40 in Kauri Street and Kauri Place in Mahora Hastings; 77 in Mayfair Avenue and Nikau Street; 14 in Plunket Street; 35 in Tarbet Street; 28 in Tomoana Road; and 82 in Waingākau. The Minister of Housing Megan Woods marked a milestone in Hastings earlier this year visiting a Hastings development and to Flaxmere. All of this was going on all the way through—building houses. Now in reflection to the houses that we're building on this side of the House I have been told that in the nine years of the National Government where they ripped down houses sold off our housing stock—guess how many the National Government built in nine years? Six—six. That's the amount of houses that the National Government built. That's what I've been told from the Hastings District Council. Six social houses compared to 438 houses going up in Hastings—affordable homes. That's not just where it stops for Hastings and Hawke's Bay. Positive stories about building futures where we're committed to working together with local companies like Tumu Timbers and where we've got an eight-week free programme going supported by the Ministry of Social Development open to school-leavers and job seekers aged 17 to 26. This is to teach life skills and onsite job training in the timber processing and building supplies area because again we're building homes and we're growing jobs not like the six in nine years. Let's talk about what else we're doing. We've got fantastic big employers like T & G who are pouring millions into the Hawke's Bay region. We've got a $100 million new automated pack-house being built for the region right here—the size of two football fields—and the best thing about it is that they will use all the redeployment of workers to operate in the pack-houses and have no staff job cuts. This will be happening in Hawke's Bay. Then I've spent an afternoon with Heinz-Wattie's where they're harvesting like never before: 10 million equivalent cans of tomatoes are going to be harvested in Hawke's Bay and all of the produce except for the boysenberries is grown within 36 kilometres of their factory. Six hundred locals work there—vaccinated boostered and ready to work—and they keep this economy going because that's what we do in the regions. All this is happening under a Labour Government—boostered and proud. Thank you Madam Speaker. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): I call Rachel Boyack—five minutes.