Potaka Tama; Salesa JennyTAMA POTAKA (National—Hamilton West): E mihi ana ki a Kīngi Tiare ki a Kīngi Tūheitia hoki. [I greet King Charles and King Tūheitia.] Hamilton West is best. We're moving off Surf Highway 45 and back to State Highway 1. The people of suburbs like Frankton Saint Andrews Temple View and The Lake are proud Kiwis and Hamiltonians. This weekend our country's finest Super Rugby team the Chiefs host the Reds at FMG Stadium Waikato for the quarter-final. Anyone in this Chamber including folks from Taranaki are welcome to come to Kirikiriroa to support our tourism sector DMac Clayton McMillan and that fantastic team.Whānau we've got a lot of big challenges in Hamilton West. Why don't I start with Waikato Base hospital? Right now the holistic health and wellbeing of the whānau in Hamilton West communities is under extreme pressure. Waikato Base hospital is in Hamilton West—it's under severe pressure. Wait times at the Waikato Base hospital: way up; A & E wait times have dramatically ballooned over the past couple of years. The Base hospital has been left off Labour's emergency department hotspot and winter preparedness plan despite ongoing reports of serious staff shortages: nurses shooting through to Brisbane and the Gold Coast; ambulance ramping and ambulance diversions to sibling electorates like Tauranga. Our hospital and our health need help. Our pharmacies aren't even part of the minor winter ailments plan—outrageous. Every major health decision that's been made at the moment is making it harder for the Waikato Base hospital to do the job it needs to do. We need more surgical precision and timing for Hamilton West and less decisions based on us playing the Operation board game.Crime: Hamilton West is known as the ram raid capital of New Zealand. Ram raids aggravated violence and crime—both in homes and businesses—are at a rate higher than nearly everywhere else in Aotearoa. Children feel unsafe parents feel unsafe communities feel unsafe seniors and superannuitants feel unsafe and businesses feel unsafe. Like Puneet Singh down in Frankton the Irvine Street dairy. Just before Christmas last year his dairy worker—fog cannon aside; there was a fog cannon in there—had his hand chopped off by a machete. Absolutely outrageous. A week later his wife had a miscarriage. Kei te aroha ki a rātou. [Condolences to them.] We need real action and real change to re-instil safety in all our neighbourhoods in Hamilton West and not just Chamber talk. In Waikato gang numbers have far outstripped police numbers.The cost of living again in Hamilton West: phenomenal rise in mortgage payments for the average mortgage holder—$380 per week. Financial hardship has been normalised in Hamilton West. Some young people—I caught up with them recently down on Primrose Street in Dinsdale; two young ladies—paying $500 a week between them for a two-bedroom unit; struggling to live but keen to work play pray in Hamilton West. They wanted to stay in Hamilton—as many reasonable people like to do—but with costs and rent going up Australia's starting look really appealing. The cost of living is actually made even harder by Countdown Nawton shutting down in August. Countdown is shutting down a store in Hamilton West making it harder for people to get there to buy their food to buy vegetables to buy their meat to actually live their lives. Now they have to drive all the way over to Dinsdale or into Te Rapa or into town to get their basic needs. We've got some outstanding schools in Hamilton West: Nga Taiatea Melville High School Te Kōpuku High and also Fraser High School—many primary schools. These schools have challenges like Melville High School—it's still in prefabs from the 1960s and we're waiting for the Government to come and say Yes we are going to replace those prefabs as you join up to make a composite school with Melville Intermediate." It's little wonder for me while we've seen a system that's spent $1 billion extra a year and hired 1400 extra public servants there is no change to the educational output and outcome in Hamilton West. In fact putting Hamilton Girls' High School aside the university entrance achievement rate for all the secondary schools in Hamilton West is between 15 and 23 percent: 15 and 23 percent of students in Hamilton West—Hamilton Girls' aside—get university entrance. That is outrageous.Emergency housing: when you come to the game this weekend you'll see everything that you need to see down on Ulster Street. Again the highest amount of emergency housing—emergency motels—across the country is in Hamilton West. I met a young lady called Everest the other day. She'd been living at eight motels with her four kids over two years. She'd finally made it to transitional housing—fantastic. Eight motels in two years—that's the life that people in Hamilton West lead. It's a motel battleground.Hamilton West has hope but it's not in the current administration. That hope has faded as people have faced the cost of living crisis the law and order issues and a crumbling education and health system. But we've still got the rugby. All hail the Chiefs and Chiefs Manawa. Kia ora.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): We have two more calls left and that's divided in two between the National Party and the Labour Party."