Ngaro AlfredALFRED NGARO (National): E Te Mana Whakawā tēna koe huri noa i Te Whare Pāremata me ngā mihi ki ngā mema katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and acknowledgments to you all members throughout Parliament; greetings.]I rise to take a call on the Social Security (Extension of Young Persons Services and Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill in its third reading. Can I acknowledge the rangatahi and young people whom we work with in our communities—I hold the cup of Matipō Primary School out in west Auckland—and the role that they play. I was also gifted this brooch by a rangatahi Anahare Harris—knowing some of the work that we are doing that is included in this bill—and this is part of a Young Enterprise scheme and work that she is doing to make a difference in her life as well. I want to acknowledge these gifts because they are working with young people. They are talking about the aspirations that they have for the future of their lives. The intent of this bill is very much in that vein. The previous speaker talked about the things that the Government was not doing—and when you are in Opposition it can be a speech about all risk and no responsibility—but we know that when you are in Government you have to look at the track record of the responsibility that you are undertaking. [Interruption] I do apologise Mr Assistant Speaker.In regard to this bill which was an election promise in 2014—I was on the select committee in the 50th Parliament where we had young people from the Dingwall Trust and others who came to talk about the challenges that they had when they came out of State care at the age of 17 and needed extra support in order to guide them through their transition into adulthood into employment and into forms of training. This Government heard that and has taken that on board as well as some other issues. So I want to declare that today in this third reading as this bill passes through the House No. 1 it is completing an election promise to ensure that we will raise the age of eligibility from 17 to 18. I want to also declare that there is also a provision still there in the Act for the chief executive to be able—if there is a risk factor where added support is needed—to extend that care on to other ages and even up to 21. So we think that is absolutely important as well. And $61.2 million over 4 years is significant—it is to provide the ability for 44 youth services to ensure that they have wraparound support.The whole issue around youth coaching becomes important. We know that young people at this age—many of us who have our own young children and young people who are young adults young rangatahi as well. They need that added support. It does not matter where they are whether they are in State care or children of our own from good homes from good families. The youth coach is no different to that. What youth coaching does is to provide for them the ability to be able to look at their finances and how they can manage them with good budgeting to ensure that they pay off the things that are important for them that are needed.The other thing that it provides for is parenting. That is quite critically important. All of us who have been in the role of being parents—who are still in the roles of being parents—know that it is not something where you sort of wake up and you have your children and you are automatically a good parent. You have to learn that along the way. This is the important role that coaching plays. This is not some overbearing role of responsibility; instead it is support that we think is critically important.I think it is also imperative to note the reasons why we are intervening early. The New Zealand Productivity Commission's report quite clearly stated that No. 1 we need to target our approach. We make no excuses about the fact that we are targeting early. We know that we are targeting early because it says this.Darroch Ball: It's not early Alfred.ALFRED NGARO: Mr Darroch Ball might want to listen to this if he has read the Productivity Commission's report. What it says is that if you are a job seeker between the age of 19 years—Darroch Ball: But they're on the benefit already.ALFRED NGARO: Mr Ball may not know this but the length of that period of time is on average 13 years. Darroch Ball: Well stop them from getting on the job seeker's benefit in the first place.ALFRED NGARO: Those who are 19 years of age who have been sole parents the average of that period of time—Mr Ball you may be interested—is 18 years. The speakers on the other side have said that if we are taking on our roles and responsibilities to care for our young in their times of need then we should show some responsibility and that is what we are doing. We are giving them a wraparound approach with a life coach we are going in and intervening early and we are putting in support services for those youth services that do make a difference. We think that is significant. Our desire through this legislation is to enable all young people even young people like Anahera Harris who has a dream and a desire to be able to own her own business. These are the same dreams and desires that we have for our young people and our young rangatahi as well. We believe that this bill is part of the process—part of the way that we believe will make a difference. I commend this bill in its third reading to the House.