SpeechDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): Kia ora e te Māngai o te Whare. As I've been listening to the debate today I've been reflecting on the fact that we live in scary and unstable times—when you look overseas. When you look to the horizon the waves are pretty big and you cannot ignore the fact that we are a pretty small boat on this very big ocean—and the storm is coming in.You don't achieve stability however—if you're any kind of sailor even a very small boat sailor you know you don't achieve stability by staying still. You achieve stability by putting in the effort to keep moving and that has been the policy of this Government through all the successive crises-tsunamis that we have faced over the last five years. You don't achieve stability for our people—the sort of stability that Arena Williams was talking about a minute ago with her mum friends back in Manurewa where my mum grew up—you don't achieve the stability they need to be able to buy their kids Christmas presents or put food on their table by standing still. This Government doesn't stand still.There is of course another way to look at stability so let's do a little compare and contrast. There is stability by putting in the work to keep yourselves stable to keep moving to keep balance. But there's another sort because stability can also mean stasis. It can mean being frozen say oh I don't know like those benefit levels that again Ms Williams was talking about or perhaps those dental grant levels that Minister Sepuloni spoke about earlier that have stayed stuck since 1996 and what huge injustice that did to our people.But let's take at random—you know purely at random—say the freezing of Government investment in I don't know health infrastructure say for oh I don't know two years perhaps say oh let's take it at random 2015 to 2016. You know it's terribly stable of course doing nothing but the actual impacts are profound instability. If you don't stably—if you stably refuse to—invest in oh I don't know let's take an example Whangārei Hospital for example the impact is literal instability. I'm talking cracks in walls I'm talking leaks in ceilings I'm talking windows that actually fall out of surgeries during surgery or—in a recent celebrated example—I'm talking pipes that burst and literally shower excrement down hospital walls. That sort of stability is what was offered by the previous National Government in Whangārei. It literally meant my community watching its hospital falling apart.And while the previous Government stood still Whangārei did not. We grew; we are one of the most fast-growing areas in the country. We continued to be deprived. We continued to suffer the impacts of a lack of investment in the basics that any society should be given. It was the stability of no new ideas no answers no solutions; a plan now we hear that consists of reversing virtually every forward-stabilising step this Government is taking.But therefore it was wonderful to stand in Whangārei not long ago with Minister Little and confirm that we are going to be funding stage one of the new hospital: an acute services building a child health unit and an emergency department (ED) that is going to be three times the present size aimed at what we're going to need for 2040 at least. Compare this to the current ED—cracks in the walls low ceilings can't put a respiratory system in place because the ceilings are too low oh yeah and did I mention the leaks?—which is only 40 percent of what it should be. We've confirmed a $759 million investment. And then because there is always more we are a Ginsu-knives Government: we have committed to $200-plus million to build ourselves another 159 beds in a new ward tower. Now that equates not just to the stability that my community is going to need for its own health; it also equates to a steady supply of work in these unstable times with more than 500 jobs anticipated. I know my local contractors are already saying That. That's the stability we need. That's what's going to lead us through."There's stability that is investing wisely or there's stasis and drift to disaster in our little boat of New Zealand. I know which one I seriously suggest New Zealanders choose."