Allan Kiritapu; Rurawhe AdrianKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): Well it's always a delight to be able speak on behalf of our Government's Budget priorities because one thing that this—why the heads are up on this side of the House and why they're all looking a little bit doomy and a little bit gloomy on the other side the House is because they still haven't worked out that they are in Opposition. I heard this afternoon from the shadow Attorney-General Tim Macindoe—he still refused to believe that they lost the election last year. So I know it's hard for that side of the House to grapple with the fact that they can't give a thousand buck - tax cut to their mates; they didn't get that one over the line the electorate didn't like it. They're still whinging two years on that they are not on this side of the House.Erica Stanford: I can't hear you what? KIRITAPU ALLAN: You can't hear me? Do you need me to speak up? Let me speak up because I'll tell you something: something about the other side of the House too that kind of got me and I had to have a wee giggle was the member Andrew Bayly. He started out with a huff and a roar and he said Woah! They've got no enthusiasm on that side of the House!" and then towards the end he just whispered. He was whispering as he closed his speech because he had nothing to say he ran out of puff at about four minutes. We had to lean in to hear what he was saying because they didn't have anything to say but that they were gutted that they didn't get tax cuts for their rich mates over the line when they were last in Government. But the reality is—and the last member he wanted to talk about some facts. He wanted to talk about facts when it came to child poverty because I'll tell you: on this side of the House we're absolutely proud of the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern's drive to bring down child poverty here in Aotearoa New Zealand. But let's turn to some facts because he wanted to talk about child poverty rates in totality. Well I'll give you some facts about when that member and his government—when they were last in Government we had 135000 children living in material hardship in 2017 80000 New Zealand children were living in severe poverty and we had 290000 children living in homes that were low-income. What the Office of the Children's Commissioner went on to say in their report in 2017 was that comparatively children in 2017—27 percent of them were living in families experiencing income poverty in contrast to the 1980s which was only around about 14 percent.The reality is that that side of the House when they had their chance in Government to radically make some transformational shifts they blew it and now they're sitting on that side of the House throwing stones. Well throwing stones gets you nowhere. I'll tell you something else: under this Government just this week we saw that the communities that they attest to stand on the side of the communities that they are going around whipping up a frenzy in communities like ours down there in Lawrence over there in the Wairarapa at my home in the East Coast rural communities provincial communities; the reality is that our communities who thrive on primary industries—primary export revenue is at a record high $9 billion under this Government in export revenue. Under this Government—36 percent increase in dairy exports 34 percent increase in forestry exports 22 percent increase in horticulture exports 11 percent increase in seafood exports and 10 percent increase in meat and wool revenue. All the while that side of the House is running around up and down the country attesting to how doomy and gloomy it is because of this Government. But I'll tell you what: under the leadership of the Hon Damien O'Connor the Hon David Parker the Hon Grant Robertson and a raft of our members on the executive on this side of the House we stand right beside those rural communities. Now if I may turn to the Wellbeing Budget at hand. This is a third reading that marks the end if you will to enable this appropriation for this Budget to go through. We commenced with the Hon Grant Robertson in May delivering what became known as a world-first Wellbeing Budget. Now this here this Wellbeing Budget what it does is it marks a transformational shift in the way that we prioritise New Zealanders in the way that we measure and benchmark the indices of what makes life worth living. It was Robert Kennedy in 1968 that talked about GDP—that it failed to measure what makes life worth living. Well this Budget goes on to ensure that we are investing in areas that New Zealanders have been crying out for attention for for nine long years under the previous Government. Now what the finance Minister the Hon Grant Robertson decided to do he was going to make investments not just for the short term three years but he was making investment in New Zealanders for the long term. Now what that meant—in mental health $1.9 billion investment. Why mental health? Well because it didn't matter where you lived it didn't matter what way you voted in the last election and it didn't matter whether you were old or whether you were young mental health illness does not discriminate amongst anyone. What the constituents across New Zealand were calling out for at the last election—but for many years prior to then it fell on deaf ears under the last Government because in 2012 they shut down the Mental Health Commission because there was no mental health crisis. But the reality is there was and the reality is there is. The reality is that on this side of the House we know that as an indices of wellbeing we must see the investment into mental health. We had to increase the investment into mental health in order to redistribute and bring about a restoration—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I'm sorry to interrupt the member but it has come time for me to leave the Chair for the dinner break. Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.Debate interrupted."