Webb DuncanDr DUNCAN WEBB (Labour—Christchurch Central): Kia ora. Thank you Mr Speaker. Well what a misery guts! The last speaker is such a misery guts because really to suggest that this Government was saved by its outstanding COVID-19 response—how about joining together with a bit of real partnership and recognising that all New Zealanders and all parliamentarians really worked together to create a fantastic response which has seen New Zealand in a very very strong position—a position that is in the top three or four nations in the world a position where our economy is resilient and prepared for a recovery a position where we heard the Minister say that unemployment is falling and people in employment is growing. Where in the world can you say that? The average OECD unemployment rate: 6.7 percent. That's problematic. That's not a healthy economy. Here today: 4.7 percent. That's where we were in 2017. We're in the same place post-COVID as we were in post-National. Isn't that fantastic? Look here we are: GDP is 0.9 percent behind where we were a year ago—a tiny fraction. Now look and here we are. The US is 2.4 percent down the UK is 7.3 percent down—compare ourselves with our peers. Kieran McAnulty: 7.3—7? Dr DUNCAN WEBB: 7.3. Kieran McAnulty: What! Dr DUNCAN WEBB: I know. And here we are and what's the projection? Good. What did the financial stability report say? That we have a resilient economy but there are risks ahead. But you know what? We're well prepared for those risks. We're well prepared because we've got a Minister of Finance who's going to deliver a Budget in two weeks' time that is a responsible Budget a careful Budget one which focuses on the things which are important. It's important that it's a long-term Budget as well. Chlöe Swarbrick stood up and talked about housing and she was right to do so. We know that there's a problem with housing in New Zealand and housing affordability in particular and that's going to be a focus of the Budget. Child wellbeing—we know we're working on child wellbeing and child poverty and we're making progress. That will continue to be a focus for this Government and rightly so. The other big long-term challenge: climate change. We're absolutely working on climate change. We will make progress on climate change and I'll tell you what we're certainly not going to sit on our hands like the National Government did for nine years and sit on a broken system. We fixed that system and James Shaw has done a great job in getting the climate change legislation in place and getting the auction framework in place and actually making progress where the last Government did nothing. I must say I'm very happy that under the last Government we reached an accord with the farming sector who with this Government in partnership—as Minister Henare said partnership is the way to do things not by conflict. In partnership with the farming community this Government will move forward on climate change. What's more is you can even take a holiday—some across the other side look like they might need it. But because we've had a great response we can now meet our partners in Australia meet our friends in the Cook Islands take a bit of rest and relaxation and help those economies as well and especially help our Pacific neighbours. I'm really proud of the stance we've taken in respect of the vaccine roll-out in the Pacific and that we're going to take a leadership role in there. So we can go to the Cooks and spend there just like New Zealanders are spending here. We have such good confidence that retail spending is up. What's more so is investment confidence. Investor sentiment is high. People are employing. People are spending on fixed assets. They're actually expanding their businesses. Look at the work we're doing in apprenticeships. We've got 17 percent more apprenticeships than we did have a year ago—fantastic. We live in a volatile world. We know that there's storms on the horizon—China India Europe—but we're well placed. Our markets are well placed because we're taking a responsible approach and building for the future building our human capital with things like the apprenticeships framework but also our fantastic health reforms. What a fantastic health reform to partner with all of our communities—Māori communities and wider communities—to deliver better outcomes for all New Zealanders. I'm really looking forward to 20 May. I'm going to have a great day. I hope you will too. Kia ora.