Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Mr Chair thank you. I was listening to the shouty member who just took his seat Andrew Bayly. No. Good passion there. It would be lovely to see passion across the House—including the previous Government's passion which we didn't see—around income adequacy. I'm speaking to the select committee and the annual review of social development and understanding that what I welcome is the Welfare Expert Advisory Group's report which made it incredibly clear that too many New Zealanders lead desperate lives with seriously inadequate incomes and this must change.Now the Welfare Expert Advisory Group's report pulled together a diverse panel of people chaired by the incredible Professor Cindy Kiro representing communities backgrounds and specialties and brought people together to come up with a blueprint that completely squashes three decades at least of a punitive approach to make sure that people can live with dignity instead of trying just the narrow outcome narrative that says Get people off the benefit." Instead it starts with a point of making sure people are treated and can live with dignity.So it was really important for me to be able to look over the annual review of the Ministry of Social Development understanding that this report is one of the most important pieces of work that the country and that this Government has seen for at least three decades. And I'm proud that the Green Party put this agreement into our confidence and supply agreement. I am pleased that the Minister saw the wisdom of pulling together this diverse panel where you end up having people like business leader Phil O'Reilly staunching all over the media saying "Incomes are not enough" and that they urgently have to increase now—alongside the agreement of the rest of the panel.The Greens are very very clear that this report which canvassed across the country which pulled on a range of researchers from both here and around the world and which pulled together the leadership of the 11 panellists came up with some consensus agreed issues that need to be addressed. The Greens are very clear that we are here to support and implement those recommendations into existence so that we can move beyond a safety net and actually towards a system that upholds the mana and the dignity of all people.I was so excited about getting up to talk about this that I forgot to address the House and celebrate our Samoan Language Week with talofa lava so I'll do that right now as well. There is a fantastic phrase that I'm going to give my best go at that I think captures where our ministry can head if we have got any sort of leadership and vision for how our country can truly be. I'm going to give it my best go: "E tua le fale tele i le faleo'o" which if I said it right is supposed to say "Even the mighty need others". What that's talking about is that not any single one of us made it to any platform of success or dignity or wellbeing without help. What we are doing here is not just picking up a few things that need to change in our social support system but transforming our entire approach to the Government's responsibility for making sure that people have enough to live good lives.The welfare report suggested that across different benefits the increases of base-benefit amounts can go up anywhere from 12 percent to 47 percent in order to make sure that people are in the best position to be a part of their community. The report was also very clear that there are many ways of contributing to being in your community—they don't all include being in paid work. We have to make sure that we value the work and the participation that takes place in our homes in our schools in our social places in our sporting places in our marae in our churches and in our community places."