Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Tuatahi he poroporoaki tēnei ki tētahi wahine toa o te atamira kapa haka ko Talei Morrison tōna ingoa. Ko tēnei te rā nehu mō te wahine rā te manu tīoriori o te kapa haka o Te Mātārae i Ōrehu. E hine ka tangi taku ngākau ki a koe mō tō whānau hoki; haere haere haere atu rā ki Hawaiki nui Hawaiki roa Hawaiki pāmamao.Rātou ki a rātou tātou ki a tātou; tēnā koutou e Te Whare.[Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Firstly allow me to farewell a champion performer of the haka stage Talei Morrison. Her funeral is today and she was one of the celebrated leading female voices of Te Mātārae i Ōrehu. My heart goes out to you and your family; farewell farewell farewell as you go to Hawaiki nui Hawaiki roa Hawaiki pāmamao.Let us leave those who have passed on and return to us who are the living; greetings to the assembly in the House.]Thank you for allowing me to contribute something small to the Supplementary Estimates legislation. Aren't we doing well—aren't we doing well? Aren't we doing brilliantly? We are doing a great job and if you would believe the other side of the House you'd think that the world was going to crash. You'd think that the sky was falling in and it's not that bad.In fact they just need to cheer up a little. Cheer up team. Start looking on the positive side of life because there is a lot going on. And if you just step outside this gracious building of ours you'll find that there are plenty of people all around New Zealand that are celebrating this Government—that's right—because they are becoming people that are going to benefit from our policies. This coalition Government with our confidence and supply partners over here the Green Party of Aotearoa we are doing a brilliant job and they are telling us so day in and day out.Let's talk about a few of those things that they are celebrating alongside us because coming up on 1 July it is going to be a momentous day. That is the day where our superannuitants who are sitting there in their very very cold houses trying to wrap up warm so that they can keep themselves alive this winter will actually be able to access the winter energy payment—that's right—where they will be able to access some funding to help with their heating costs because it's a real pressure when you get to their age. They're telling me Tamati thank you. Thank you for putting that in there. You've heard our plea. We've been freezing for the last nine years and thank you to the Government for throwing us a bone and giving us something to look forward to."On top of that what they've realised is that we are a future-focused Government. When we talk about superannuation and the fund that's been sitting in stalemate for quite some time they're saying to us "Thank you for restarting those contributions to the Superannuation Fund." because—you know what?—they haven't been. It's been sitting there dormant for quite some time and they're afraid that with the influx of people that are coming through that are going to be collecting their super very soon maybe the country won't be able to afford it. So they've been saying thank you again to us for that. Our plan for the Superannuation Fund is to contribute $7.7 billion over the next five years with $500 million from the get-go. Education: education is winning out of our Budget and although the Opposition might pooh-pooh the whole idea of spending some money on tertiary education the students are happy. The students are happy because they get to go and they get to not have that barrier that is cost to their education. It wasn't so long ago—and I would even theorise that quite a few members in this House took advantage of a time when here in New Zealand tertiary education was free. That's right it was free. It was free once upon a time but then one day it stopped being free and unfortunately students of our generation were the ones that had to go through and start paying—and not paying a little bit; actually paying a lot—to the point where it became a barrier to their further education. So I am proud to stand here and give the kids of today an opportunity and say "You know what? This Government is looking after you. This Government is contributing to your well-being so that you can be circuit-breakers for your whānau and go back and help educate them."—move them on to further education.Māori are happy about this because—you know what?—Māori rates of tertiary education are not that great they are not that high and anything that can reduce barriers to Māori to be able to take up tertiary education has got to be a good thing and you just can't dispute that. You just can't dispute that. So that's why $310 million was authorised for the implementation of the first year of fees-free post - secondary education. This is a brilliant brilliant Budget."