Edmonds Barbara; Rurawhe AdrianHon BARBARA EDMONDS (Minister of Internal Affairs): That was a beauty. I almost didn't want to stand up to take my call because I thought Minister McAnulty should have just taken it right through. What Minister McAnulty was talking about was legacy. Just this afternoon I went with Onehunga High School into our caucus room. It was a leadership group a group of young thriving Pacific young leaders coming through who were being fostered by Anahila Kanongata'a. I took them through the caucus room and I showed them the different legacies and the pictures of the leaders of the Labour Party. Michael Joseph Savage: State houses and the benefit system that we have; Peter Fraser: education; David Lange: nuclear-free; Helen Clark—now this is a beauty for me—KiwiSaver Working for Families which for a low-income family like my family meant that we had an additional $100 in our hand when she was the Prime Minister and interest-free student loans. We don't yet have the picture of Jacinda Ardern because she's in that Speaker's aisle but what I would have said to those children is: winter energy payment Best Start and the extension of paid parental leave and the contributions into New Zealand super.So my question to the other side of the House is: what is the legacy that you will be leaving for our young children to look up to? Well I can tell you basically based on the speeches that we've had before and over the last week for the Budget it will be less money for people when they retire. It'll be colder people in the middle of winter because they'll get rid of the winter energy payment. It'll be less money for our families and it'll be less money for those on the lowest of incomes because since 1 April we've increased the minimum wage. We increased benefits. We increased super to match inflation. It will also mean—and this one was a bit of a clanger which I thought was quite unfortunate—less than a few hours after the Budget was announced no sooner did we have the $5 prescription fee removed they wanted to return it because it was a nice-to-have". You go and ask the people in Porirua East and in Cannons Creek if it's a nice-to-have—medication that helps deal with the pain that they suffer every day through arthritis or through gout. You go and talk to the people in South Auckland who need medication for their diabetes and say it's a nice-to-have.We on this side of the House know exactly why we need to remove that fee: because it saves money on the other side; it prevents people getting more sick. It prevents our hospitals having to deal with them because they're at the other end of the spectrum because they couldn't afford their $5 prescription fee—not just for one prescription; it's per script. They wouldn't be able to get the medication to make them better. Just last week on Friday I was speaking to our local Cannons Creek pharmacist Kas Govind and he said to me "Thank you so much. Thank you so much for removing the prescription fee." He said "It's going to save my business and it's going to save lives." That's the legacy that this side of the House wants to support. That is the legacy on this side of the House that means by keeping superannuation at 65 when our people retire—in particular Pacific people who will retire earlier because of a number of reasons—they will have more money in their retirement plans.This particular Budget for Pacific people builds on investment over the last five years of over $683 million. With an additional $51 million added to that it means we have specific Pacific initiatives that can help our Pacific people. I remember when I was young my grandmother used to have her transistor radio blasting in Māngere with Radio Samoa. As I've grown older I've lost my mother tongue but this Budget has money in there to help deliver our Pacific languages strategy. That's $13.3 million to help New Zealand - born Pacific people be able to hear our language on the radio hear our language on TV and read our language so that we can be bilingual we can be bold and we can be founded in our culture and identity. There is also an additional $14.1 million around the Pacific Community Resilience and Wellbeing Fund. That is a direct result to thank all those people in the Hawke's Bay all those Pacific churches across the country who stood up and responded to our natural disasters.This is a Budget for children this is a Budget for our elderly and this is a Budget for all our people to ensure that we help them with this cost of living crisis.SPEAKER: This is a split call. I call the Hon Michael Woodhouse."