Prime Willow-JeanWILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour—Northland): Thank you Madam Speaker. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this general debate. I want to just reflect on the recess. Many people ask me How was the recess? What did you get up to? Did you get a break?" Well not really. Northland was really busy during the recess. We had more than eight Ministers visiting; we had visits announcements opening ceremonies. It was really a wonderful time for Northland and I am so proud to be the local MP.It started off with the official ceremony for the expansion of the Ngāwhā geothermal power station and I thought it was quite poignant to point that out this afternoon because the majority of Northland was unaffected by the power outage on Monday. In terms of that and also the recent unveiling turning of the sod for the largest solar farm in Northland—and a few more to follow—I'm really proud of how we are setting up for our future with renewable energy.It then followed with the Puketona roundabout a $15 million investment by this Government. One of three new roundabouts that we are unveiling in the next coming weeks. So we've opened one. We also have the Kawakawa round about which will be opening with the Minister of Transport next Friday.Then it was on to Kaitāia where Kelvin and I had a day with constituents. I just want to mention a group of young people that I met with Tuhiata where they came to me with a local issue of wanting to get rid of drug utensils from our local stores something that I have brought back to Wellington to follow up on their behalf. I want to mihi to them for their advocacy.I was then really honoured to host the Minister of Police the Hon Poto Williams where I was able to give her the opportunity to come deep into our communities meet with our Northland leadership team of the New Zealand Police but also to meet with our community advisory boards. We went and visited Te Ara Oranga which is a methamphetamine programme between the Police and the DHBs and to hear success stories of that and also we got to go to Moerewa my home town and meet with those who run Te Pae Oranga one of our iwi community panels. I am so pleased that the Minister got to hear firsthand the impact that these Government funded programmes are having on justice issues in our communities.Now I also want to mention that she got to see a bit of that "Moerewa magic" and I hope that from that she will see the success that that has had—that it should get support across the country. With $70 million those panels are going to increase from the current 16 to two more very shortly and up to 30 panels over the next four years. I believe it will truly make a difference for people's experience in our justice system.Then there was an announcement from David Parker for $400000 to the Community Business and Environment Centre where I took the Prime Minister to visit recently. They were successful in securing money from the Waste Minimisation Fund and they are going to be doing a composting project. The list continues and I'm watching my time. The Prime Minister then returned not even a month after her previous visit. She chose to come to Northland on her birthday and we were very pleased to host her. She made announcements for short-term roll-growth classrooms right across New Zealand but in particular more than $11 million for Ruakākā primary school Kamo High School Whangārei Intermediate Te Rangi Aniwaniwa and Oruaiti.We then went on to the Bay of Islands Hospital where we were there to start the blessing of the stage two development for the hospital—a $14 million investment by this Government in our small hospitals out in the regions. That new facility will house the outpatients. It will have more primary care facilities—oncology haematology expanded renal care—and I'm pleased that it is in partnership with the local Māori health provider the Ngāti Hine Health Trust.The final visit was by the Minister of Conservation Minister Kiritapu Allan who came to Northland to announce over $20 million of funding for Jobs for Nature projects. Twelve projects in our region who are receiving support from that with well over 300 jobs coming to Northland.So it was a very busy recess. I am very proud of the work that this Government is doing. I'm proud to be the local MP; I am proud that we are delivering to our regions. I just want to use the final 30 seconds of my time because it was one of the highlights for me and that was the Speaker's tour. The Speaker's outreach tour came to Tai Tokerau. They went to our northern-most schools of Te Hāpua and Ngataki and those young children living the furtherest away from Parliament got to experience Parliament in a mock debate and hopefully it has made them feel like they are part of our democracy. Kia ora Madam Speaker."