Andersen GinnyGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour): When I was outside just half an hour ago I took the liberty of purchasing a chocolate bar. I ate that chocolate bar and do you know what? To start with it felt good—felt nice. It made me feel like I had a bit of a sugar high. Then it went away and I just felt a bit yuck afterwards. That kind of really in a really simple way sums up a big difference because the failed promises made under the previous Government are sugar highs. They are short-term things that give you a quick buzz but leave you feeling a bit yucky afterwards. That's the big difference between what the Wellbeing Budget does and what the previous sugar highs have failed to achieve. Long-term development and reinvesting back into some of the big issues that the previous Government have been too scared to touch is where we change people's lives on a day-to-day basis. Those big long-term issues are mental health child poverty homelessness and family violence and that is where this Budget is prepared to tackle the big issues and delve into those areas for some long-term investment. That's where we see a big difference in terms of where New Zealand is not only tracking now but for many years into the future. New Zealand has been starved for a long time far too long of any real investment and we see it everywhere. We see it everywhere we look that there has been a failure to invest. Whether it be buildings wages mental health or families we see people struggling and that is what this Government is taking active steps to address. It's going to take more than just a chocolate bar. So I'm going to talk about how we see the manifestation of those long-term investments where I live in Hutt South and I'm going to talk about three big key investments. Just this morning we stood with the Minister of Research Science and Innovation the Hon Dr Megan Woods to announce a $75 million investment into Callaghan Innovation. I went out to Callaghan Innovation just before the last election to watch asbestos buildings crumbling into the ground and to watch budding companies trying to use innovation in areas that were not suitable for scientists to be able to operate out of. What we've seen through this investment is an ability for innovative companies to be able to get the assistance and the development that they have waited for far too long and that's happening right in the Hutt. That's happening for more jobs for more people and more New Zealand businesses being able to use science and research to further our development and our productivity. One example of productivity is that I was speaking to a scientist out there just this morning and right now it takes 12 weeks for them to do the testing because it has to happen in different areas at different temperatures. The shell of the building that I stood in that will be finished next year under this grant—those tests will take four weeks. So we're able to compete internationally at a far higher rate and that is increased productivity brought by the Wellbeing Budget. Number two: KiwiRail. Let's take a look at that: $1 billion is now working for 900 new engines to be built. The recreation of the engines that will be going between Auckland and Hamilton is happening right now. Thirty-two new jobs are happening immediately and more are to come because we are reinvesting in rail. What we saw previously was that the Hutt Railway Workshops were that close to closing. They went right down in jobs. They had nothing happening there because what happened was that cheap Chinese engines that were running on diesel not electricity were brought in under the previous Government as a way of cutting corners—another cheap quick sugar high that did nothing for jobs nothing for training and nothing for apprenticeships. The last one I will talk about is our hospitals and our schools. For too long they have crumbled down and Wainuiomata High School is just one of those—$24 million to give children in a public school a building that they are proud of and that they can learn in and feel happy about. We need to be reinvesting in our schools and in our infrastructure so that our next generation have the right things to be able to do the best they can and have the best opportunities possible. I am proud of this Budget because it's not there for quick sugar high political wins and vote-catching. Quick roads being built without funding are no more. We're here for the long term and we care about people.