SpeechJAN LOGIE (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. This afternoon I want to speak about the wellbeing of our children and young people our tamariki and rangatahi. You know many of them can't vote. They definitely don't get the same degree of access to this place as others. And it's really important for us in the Greens that to try and balance that we do our bit to make sure that we're keeping them front of mind in our work in this House. And you know they're going to live the longest with the impact of the decisions that are being made here.So I want to speak to a couple of reports that have come out recently that are relevant to our young ones; the recent release of the 2021/22 Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy Annual Report and some of the information in that. It's showing a gradual improvement for our young people in access to food and a reduction in poverty. Though it's got to be said that even that gradual process is deeply deeply uneven that we're seeing glaring inequities. Pacific children are four times more likely to experience food insecurity than other children—that's really significant for all of us—and that there are much higher levels of poverty and material hardship for tamariki Māori Pasifika and disabled. Disabled children are twice as likely to be experiencing material hardship compared to other children. So our policies are not delivering to all of our children and we're going to have to fix that. And this was reinforced on another level by research that came out yesterday—Mako Mama - Mangopare—that showed 45 percent of sole parents on low incomes found it difficult to access healthy food for their whānau; 30 percent of our sole parent families are struggling to be able to get into healthy homes. Other research shows that one in five single parents don't have enough to meet basic everyday needs. And our young people are feeling this. This is not just figures. In the wellbeing report they had a couple of quotes I want to pull out. So one from a young person saying My parents and family are stressed because of everything they have to pay for and things just get harder. I don't want to be [an] extra stress." And another kid says "I'm 16 and working four jobs just to help my family get by… it's like I became an adult too early."This is the part of the report that was the good news alongside—I have to acknowledge—the reduction in preventable hospitalisations. But this was the good news part of the report because then we go into the fact that our young people are in I think an unprecedented crisis where a quarter of them had experienced discrimination in the last year; 37 percent of 12- to 18-year-olds had been bullied in the previous year. And that has resulted in—and I just want people to get their heads around this—over one in 10 of our 12- to 18-year-olds our children had attempted suicide in the 12 months before that survey; over one in 10. And that one in four disabled children between the ages of 12 and 18 and rainbow children in the same age group had attempted suicide. They are saying they cannot cope and that is on us. And I just can't get past that that being the realities for that many kids and all of their families trying to keep them tethered to this earth to be able to have the opportunities and the life that they deserve. And I'm not trying to pretend there's a simple answer to this or that it's actually a fault of any one Government. It's actually a call to action for every single one of us in this House to feel that responsibility to think about what we say and our actions and are we building connection? Are we eradicating poverty? Are we taking climate action? Are we doing what our children and our young people need us to do for them to have a sense of hope? And I'm here to say that the Green Party will do what we can because our young people deserve it."