Lubeck MarjaMARJA LUBECK (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I worry about my family on the other side of the world. Like in many other countries the Netherlands still sees many new COVID-19 cases every day—143 yesterday. They've also had more than 6000 people die in the Netherlands. My parents are elderly and vulnerable and like many others they are stuck in their homes—they can't go out; they don't feel safe to go anywhere else. Now contrast that with New Zealand's low infection and mortality rates. I get messages from my family all the time full of admiration of how our Prime Minister has led our team of 5 million to go hard and go early and have a response that basically saw us in a place where we can now start to reboot and get our economy moving again much faster than many other countries have managed to do. So I get up every morning relentlessly positive because it is such a privilege to be living in a country like Aotearoa New Zealand where we have had a response to COVID-19 that is basically the envy of the whole world.We said from the start that the best economic response would be a strong health response. So we went hard to cushion that economic blow started with the wage subsidy that saved tens of thousands of jobs and helped businesses grow. Budget 2020 built further on that focusing on jobs and on growth. We've heard from a couple of my colleagues earlier in their speeches that as recent as this morning the Government has announced schemes that will support that. The Apprenticeship Boost—an apprenticeship support scheme that will give confidence to businesses to keep their apprentices but also to take new ones on because we are paying $16000 for every apprenticeship for the first two years. So that will provide New Zealand with the skills that we need to be rebuilding our country.The other thing we announced is the Mana in Mahi - Strength in Work programme so it's a boost that will provide opportunities for our vulnerable at-risk rangatahi so they can get into secure and rewarding employment.We've already heard from the other side of the House—Nicola Willis was one of them—with criticism about these programmes. It is unfortunate to see because there was a promise that they wouldn't do opposition for the sake of opposition but that is what we are seeing. Another clear example of that was then they voted against a bill that provided temporary support for people who lost their jobs. It was a 12-week temporary payment so that people can job search can retrain and basically get back on their feet after they had the significant blow of losing their jobs. Now the fact that National voted against such a bill—a temporary support for people losing their jobs—shows again their disdain for working people and for families that have lost their breadwinners. It's exactly the same as what we've seen over three consecutive National Governments basically putting the boot into working people and undermining working people and their families. It's their criticism of the wage subsidy scheme again that basically shows they don't care about workers. The comment that they made where they said Oh the wage subsidy is something that went to businesses and not to workers" clearly shows that the National Party sees workers as some kind of a liability. They couldn't care less if those workers had lost their jobs. But our Government took immediate action put the wage subsidy scheme in place and has now supported more than 1.7 million workers up to $11 billion paid out to see them through and get businesses to work through their options to see how they can remain viable and keep workers in business.In the Budget our Minister of Finance Grant Robertson mentioned the glimmer of silver lining on the darkest of clouds. I thought that was very beautiful because it actually tells us that we can rebuild better and it is so important because we certainly didn't have an equitable pre-COVID economy. So whatever we do we're going to make sure we're coming out of this on top and in a better place. The legacy that the National Government left us after three consecutive terms is basically social deficits in health housing and education. We have started to make significant improvements in all of those areas. So we would like to celebrate Budget 2020 which is all about rebuilding together. We are creating new jobs. We are training people for the jobs that we have available and so that they can all together as a team help us rebuild New Zealand. I am very proud of a Government that cares and a Prime Minister who unites and leads our country time after time through crisis through rough times showing kindness and compassion. Thank you very much."