Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Thank you Mr Speaker. The Government has done lots in contrast to that previous member David Seymour who seems to see the doom and gloom and obviously things were rosy when he was part of the last Government. Unfortunately he's not and under this Government we've got a wellbeing Budget that is absolutely targeted at looking after the people of New Zealand.As we say in Māori He aha te mea nui i tēnei ao? Māku e kī atu he tangata he tangata he tangata." ["What is the most important thing in the world? It is people it is people it is people."] It is people. It is people that we need to be focused on and for that reason under the leadership of Jacinda Ardern this Government has actually pulled its socks up and started to deliver for the people of New Zealand so that they've got hope and aspiration. We saw under the previous Government child poverty at its worst. We heard the terrible stories about the degradation of our hospitals and the degradation of our schools and it's in this Government that we've actually decided to do something about it. We've invested in our hospitals in an unprecedented way. We have invested in our schools to make sure that if we're looking after our teachers and our students and we support teachers as well in schools—if they're doing the best they can to look after our children then we're better off as a community as a society and as New Zealand of the future. We've taken mental health seriously. We've improved child wellbeing and we will continue to do that. But also as a Māori member of Parliament from a Māori electorate anything that supports the aspirations of our Māori people is a great thing for New Zealand. We know obviously that so many of our Māori are incarcerated in our jails and we thank our Minister of Corrections Kelvin Davis for actually putting a strategy together—Hōkai Rangi it's called—to ensure that we're transitioning our Māori people out of that place. It is absolutely foreign the idea of jail to traditional Māori society and that's why we've decided to turn that around. An active group of experts in the field have got together worked out how we're going to get our Māori people out of prisons so that they don't just walk out the front door and come back in around the back door again but that we're actually making long-term change—long-term change. That's something that you'll keep hearing from this side of the House because it's something that we're focused on as a Government: long-term change. It's for that reason that we've had record levels of investment into family violence and record levels of investment into sexual violence. These are things that—the call has come from our communities out around New Zealand. Where I come in Rotorua I won't disclose the number but we have a significant amount of domestic violence calls calling out every single week; it is an absolute concern. There is nothing but praise coming from the people in our community that see that our Government is focused on making sure that we're absolutely tackling the long-term challenges that this country faces.When it comes to looking after our families: Whānau Ora yes it was brought to our Government actually by Dame Tariana Turia many years ago and it's still got legs—it's absolutely still got legs. We were criticised for being the Government that was going to do away with it but no we saw the good in it to the point where we've actually funded it in a way that it's never been funded before: $80 million over four years. That's going to make an incredible difference because those navigators those people that go out into the households the hard-to-reach communities the gang houses the places where nobody else wants to go they're going to be able to get in there and try and make a real difference. They couldn't do it before because they didn't have the resources for it but under our Government we've undertaken the Whānau Ora review. We've reformed things and we've actually put our money where our mouth is on that as well.When it comes to supporting our families—he tangata our whānau—what we're doing is we're making sure that we relieve some of the pressures off the wallets so when it comes to sending kids to school they no longer have to stump up with the "voluntary" school donation which we all know was never really voluntary anyway. Parents had to pay out for the school donation and there were some horrific cases that were coming forward about kind of being shamed into paying your school donation. So thankfully this Government's taken the cost of that.Ending NCEA fees: knowing that that was a barrier to our young people being able to succeed in education. It's our Government that has ensured that actually we're taking care of the NCEA fees because why? Absolutely we have an aspiration for free education. Education is the thing that's going to turn a child who is growing up in impoverished circumstances into a young achiever into somebody that can actually be a circuit-breaker for their whānau. So I have got no problems with the direction that we're travelling in as a Government to ensure that education does remain free and for that reason fees-free tertiary education is absolutely something that I will continue to crow about as I go out there and I talk to our people. Thank you Mr Speaker."