Brooking RachelHon RACHEL BROOKING (Minister for Oceans and Fisheries): Thank you Madam Speaker for this opportunity to talk about the great Wellbeing Budget 2023—Support for Today; Building for Tomorrow. I'd like to focus a bit on that building for tomorrow part and talk about infrastructure. It's a wonderful thing to talk about and it's something that this Government has been very focused on. We started up the Infrastructure Commission and that group produced a strategy. In response on the day of the Budget the Infrastructure Action Plan was launched or was shown to the world and this document is a very important one. It includes 331 actions and you can see them—Actions at a glance"—if you have a look at that action plan. It includes strategic objectives and one of those is for a circular economy. This is a key Government work plan that goes with that circular economy. We have the Construction Sector Transformation Plan the Emissions Reduction Plan and of course the Waste Strategy which Minister Parker launched in March. Then you can go to Annex 1 of this plan and it includes these 331 actions and the time frame table. Under the "Expected Completion Year: 2025" for instance that includes progressing bans for hard-to-recycle plastic packaging and enabling business to reduce food waste as an example.So it's a very important plan. I haven't heard that many people talk about and it's something that I commend to anybody who is interested in the future of New Zealand and how we're going to do infrastructure well to have a read of that. Also in the Budget there was the $100 million for the new infrastructure delivery agency. So this is for central Crown infrastructure. It was formerly Ōtākaro and it's really for those agencies that don't do the day-to-day delivery of big infrastructure projects and of course there are a lot of those in central government. So examples include Archives New Zealand. They are building a new building here in Wellington and that's not something that they're expert with so this new infrastructure delivery agency will be able to help. It is also helping the new plant health and environment biosecurity facility. Also in the Budget is the $6 billion National Resilience Plan and this is both to respond to the more immediate cyclone recovery and to futureproof our infrastructure.A sort of softer form of infrastructure—it depends on your definitions—is housing. It's obviously incredibly important to our people and the Budget provides for an additional 3000 new public houses. In addition to those new houses there's also the grants—the Warmer Kiwi Homes grants—for another 100000 houses to receive those. There are huge wins with that increased insulation with houses being warmer and in terms of the health benefits you get as well. Also on infrastructure we can think of roads and what goes on roads and why we need more roads and sometimes it's because people aren't using public transport. So encouraging public transport has a benefit for congestion which we heard Minister Michael Wood talking about in question time today. It's going to be free for under-13-year-olds and half-price for under-25-year-olds. This also reduces carbon and it helps with household budgets.Another issue that we face as a country is distributed renewable energy particularly when we have natural hazards when not everyone can get power back. So there's $50 million here for energy resilience for low-income and energy-insecure communities and that's something I'm very pleased to see.There's also $39.2 million for improving the mapping of New Zealand's coastline and identifying coastal areas at significant risk of climate-related hazards and natural disasters. That is also very important for infrastructure planning and it's important for the part of the world that we come from.There's an increase in electric vehicle (EV) chargers and of course it would be remiss of me not to talk about the scrapping of the $5 prescription fee. That policy work is coming from the wonderful University of Otago and its centre of public health with Professor Pauline Norris there. It's doing a really good study showing that the removal of the $5 decreases hospital admissions and the length of stay in economically deprived areas. We're also increasing EV chargers around the motu. It's a great Budget."