Barry MaggieHon MAGGIE BARRY (Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage): This is a Government that is truly delivering for New Zealanders and a Government that achieves outcomes that make a tangible difference to our quality of life. The strong economy we have built in the last 9 years needs to keep growing and it will under National because we are the only party that knows how to fuel the economy how to keep it growing and how to manage the growth that we have and we are doing it very well. By getting the books into surplus we have choices. We have ways in which we can choose to help people's lives and we are doing it.My colleague the Minister for Social Housing talked about the audacity of Labour and its leadership—an oxymoron if ever we heard it. Slave labour is certainly an epithet that fits those members. When we look at what they have achieved and what their vision is there is nothing left to say. So I will move on to our investments and what we have done which is more jobs higher wages with less unemployment and a much better start for the 60000 young people who are now growing up in households that are not benefit-dependent. By lifting incomes and reducing taxes we are reducing the pressure on those families that are most in need.I need look no further than my own ministerial responsibility for seniors. The elder abuse services that we rolled out on Saturday 1 July really will help to protect a very vulnerable group of New Zealanders. In the 2½ years I have had the privilege of being the Minister for Seniors I have listened to groups and heard what they have had to say which is that one of the biggest challenges they face is the elder abuse problem. It is a scourge on New Zealand society.Unlike some parties we listen and that is why we have implemented the Elder Abuse Response Service (EARS) which is a particularly good evaluation of response to elder abuse services. Annually we have something like 70000 New Zealanders who are being abused either physically sexually psychologically—perhaps through neglect—or financially. These are the sorts of concerns that have really not been addressed directly.We have very much a social investment outlook as a Government so we expect to see measurable outcomes for investments made. That is why on Saturday we rolled out a new group of providers that will be providing elder abuse services to a much wider geographical area than we ever have had before and to far more ethnic groups than we have had before because these are among the most isolated of all our seniors. We need to be aware that the cases that we read about in the news are ones that are going on all the time in New Zealand. They are horrific. Ena Lai Dung weighed just 29 kilograms and had 15 broken bones when ambulance officers found her body. Her daughter went to prison for 13 years for manslaughter. World War II veteran Ron Greenhalgh died last year without enough money to pay for his funeral because it was squandered at the TAB by his daughter who is currently serving home detention.Sadly most of these cases remain unreported which is another reason why just as with housing we are taking a whole-of-Government approach—a social investment approach. We are focused on outcomes and on interventions. The Elder Abuse Response Service has had an extra investment going into it that involves 18 new organisations and 10 Age Concern branches which are being funded for the first time. Prevention and awareness work will be run through the Ministry of Social Development office for seniors and that is going to free up front-line providers to do the necessary work.The cornerstone of the new EARS service is a 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week helpline. It is a professionally staffed freephone—0800 EA NOT OK. I am very hopeful that it will encourage and enable people to report this problem which some see as very shameful or to phone the helpline to get professional advice from registered nurses as to what the options are and to be referred to their local provider.A quick update on Predator Free 2050: this Government has a very proud record of achievement in conservation. Again it is something that because the books are in order we are able to invest in so we have had $76 million extra going into tourism and recreation and the values that we place on our estate which of course will enable us to accommodate more visitors without spoiling their experiences through overcrowding. That extra revenue will be ploughed back into biodiversity.It was about a year ago this month that we launched it. We have a Predator Free 2050 board which is a limited Crown company. I met the CEO of it Ed Chignell today—a heck of a good guy. There are really exciting plans to engage in landscape-scale predator control throughout the country. The Department of Conservation has nine new—for each region—Predator Free 2050 rangers who will help communities help themselves to attain their predator-free goals. Together we can do this thing and we will achieve predator-free status by 2050. Thank you.