Salesa JennyHon JENNY SALESA (Minister for Building and Construction): It was not part of what I was going to talk about but in light of that particular speech I feel that as Minister for Ethnic Communities I must comment on the previous speaker David Seymour before I go on.March the 15th is still fresh in all of our minds. There are some of us that get all sorts of comments—be they online be they in person—mainly because (a) we're women and (b) we are from ethnic minority backgrounds. We know that racism is linked to bullying. We know that the schools actually—and this is something I found out when I was going around talking with ethnic communities directly and with Pacific communities directly late last year. What our young people what our parents and what our teachers were telling me is that discriminatory behaviour racism is rife for them and their children. This is an issue that as a country we as parliamentarians—there are things that we could do to address it in a systematic way and there are things that we also could do to address it as people as human beings and as members of Parliament.But if I can just go back to the three things I wanted to cover. We've come into Government and there are a lot of things that our Government is doing. There are a lot of long-term issues that we are addressing and there are three things I want to talk about: building and construction; ethnic communities is one of those; as well as Pacific people in terms of health and Māori health as well.I'll begin with building and construction. When we came in as Government we were confronted with the fact that we are short by 30000 skilled people in the building and construction sector. It takes a few years to train electricians plumbers and builders—everyone that we need to build the houses the roads and the infrastructure that we need. We have begun that work.When we looked at the building and construction sector it is really fragmented. What have we done since we came in? A few things. One of them is we've actually got a construction sector accord signed. This is the first time ever that you've seen seven Ministers of the Crown coming together with leaders from industry and agreeing on nine areas of work. Our Government are leading two of those areas. First we've said that we would use our procurement and that's $40 billion to $41 billion a year that we can utilise to ensure that as we procure as we contract out there are certain things that we could do to assist and to work with industry. The reality is we know that we need industry to help us train our apprentices. It is not something that we simply sit around here and say this is the policy and we can train those workers. So it is really important that we have come in partnership with industry.The second thing that we have said we would lead as Government is looking at the Building Act 2004. Now since that Act came into force 15 years ago it has not really actually been amended in a major way to address a lot of issues. The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment is out consulting with the sector right now on my behalf up until the 16 June. It is open to the public to let us know what it is that we would need to do to ensure that the Building Act 2004 is indeed fit for purpose.I want also to touch on rheumatic fever as it relates to Māori and Pacific children. On Saturday—earlier on this week—I announced that we will invest from the Wellbeing Budget of 2019 $12 million to address rheumatic fever for Māori and Pacific children. I've got to actually acknowledge the former Government because they did put into place programmes to deal with this issue. However in 2017 that particular programme—the targets for it were retired put to rest and the huge funding that was actually invested to ensure that the rates came down was actually not really continued. So when we see the rates—37 percent Māori children affected by rheumatic fever 57 percent of our Pacific children affected by rheumatic fever—this is an initiative that is absolutely needed in order to save more of our children's lives. Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker.