Radhakrishnan PriyancaPRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN (Labour): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. It's an absolute delight to rise and take a call in this House to talk about the Budget—for the first time as a new MP—that this Government is delivering. What is much less delightful though is listening to a whole bunch of misguided speeches from members opposite. For example—and I'll just pick a few because there are way too many to go into—I'll just point out the fact that the member Alastair Scott talked about the fact that we haven't included doubling the refugee quota in our Budget. Can I just what reiterate what the Prime Minister said today: that's not where you put a policy like that Mr Scott. As a new MP even I know that. Mr Scott also talked about the fact that this Government is investing less in health than they did but perhaps Mr Scott needs to go back to school because we're investing $3.2 billion in health versus the $2.3 billion that they invested and if they try to say that they did a lot more it's only because of the TerraNova Homes and Care case that that previous Government was dragged kicking and screaming to deliver. So it's a little bit disingenuous to add that in.Maggie Barry mentioned that there's nothing in this Budget for the most vulnerable and the member David Bennett—his ode to Waikeria Prison lamenting the fact that on this side of the House we don't really want to build a mega-prison. What about the drivers of crime? That's what this progressive side of the House is much more interested in not building mega-prisons that we throw more and more people into locking them up and throwing away the key because that's been done. It's been done by the Opposition members when they were in Government and it's failed miserably. It's a travesty. And so we've got a much better plan and that's the plan that we are delivering through this Budget that I am extremely proud of. It's about addressing those drivers of crime. Look at family violence. Family violence if you look at youth justice underscores a lot of the experiences of those young people. We've put over $76 million into front-line family violence services. I visited some of those soon after those that announcement was made and was told to my face that that was the first time they'd seen an increase in nine years. What about housing? What about making sure that we invest in education so that our young people have a hope so that they have opportunities? Health housing—those are all the foundations that lead to people actually having better lives so that they don't go on to commit crime.So let's talk about housing a little bit. Let's focus on that because frankly out on the doorstep before the last election that was one of the most talked about issues to all of us on this side of the House. What are we doing? That's why it's so exciting to stand up and speak because we get to deliver on what we've talked about—building more houses. Residential construction which was forecast to fall this year—this was alarming considering we were already 71000 houses short—is actually increasing. We're building more affordable homes—not just more houses but more affordable homes—so my generation that's been locked out of homeownership can actually afford to buy a home or to rent a home if they so wish. We're ensuring that we have healthier homes so that we don't have 40000 children a year or whatever it was falling ill because of preventable respiratory illnesses. Social housing emergency housing—we're building more of all of those as well. We're building 6400 more State and community houses unlike those on the other side of the benches of the House who were selling them off en masse—selling off State houses such that homelessness rose to dramatic levels. We're building an additional 1400 emergency housing places so that no child needs to sleep in a car or a garage and to do their homework in the back of the car. There's $63.4 million in funding for Housing First. We're investing so that our homes are healthier. We're investing in the winter energy payment so that we don't have to sit in the living rooms of the superannuitants any more who tell us that they put on layer after layer or go to sleep early because it's too cold and they can't afford to heat their homes. We're investing in people. We're investing in improving the lives of people across the spectrum and that's why I'm proud to be on this side of the House. Thank you.