Kanongata'a-Suisuiki AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Tēnā koe. I'm privileged to stand here today. It's the first time I'm contributing in a general debate so I just want to thank the members of the public for voting for a Labour coalition Government. Thank you New Zealand.Today I want to acknowledge a leader who today if she was alive would be 90 years old. Maya Angelou was an American poet a singer a member of the civil rights defence activists and today if she was alive she would be 90 years old. I mention Maya Angelou because I want to—there's a quote of hers that I like. She has influenced millions of people. I've chosen one quote to share with the House today and that quote is Faith is the evidence of the unseen."—faith is the evidence of the unseen. I put it to you today to all the speakers on the other side that New Zealanders for the last nine years had faith—or diminished faith—in the National Government. Why do I say that? I'll get to that later on.I live in Counties Manukau which covers the Counties Manukau District Health Board. In 2016 the estimated population of Counties Manukau was about half a million which represents 11 percent of New Zealand's population. At the time of the census 36 percent of Counties Manukau are living in areas classed as the most socio-economically deprived areas in New Zealand. I want to acknowledge that 36 percent which means that 64 percent of New Zealanders in Counties Manukau are actually boxing above their weight despite being neglected by this Government in the last nine years. In that sense I want to acknowledge Joseph Parker who fought for New Zealand not long ago in the weekend. We were all so proud of him. Most of us in this House were glued to the TV.But despite Counties Manukau boxing above their weight we've heard today in this very House in this very House—I think I'll go back to an experience. Because I live in Counties Manukau I visit Middlemore Hospital all the time and when I walk through the corridors of Middlemore Hospital—there were days that were reported in the paper but I've seen it in real life: patients sleeping in the corridors. What the people of Counties Manukau had faith in was that the Government was funding the district health board sufficiently to be able to provide for the sickness of the people that lived in Counties Manukau. What they didn't know is that there's a building that cannot be used by the sick people of Counties Manukau because it has been neglected for the last nine years.So I've said that despite being neglected by the National Government Counties Manukau boxed above their weight and as mentioned by Dr Liz Craig the district health board comes to the Health Committee and they've talked about—I can say that they had little faith that what they were saying in terms of the voice of experience would have been heard by the then Government.I want to talk about the last—that health Minister Dr Coleman lives in Northcote. He was the last member for Northcote—he will vacate the seat. If you had to drive from Northcote to Counties Manukau in peak hour it'd probably be faster for someone to drive from Whangarei to Auckland really because the traffic problem in Auckland is shocking—shocking that the last Government had neglected it.There's a member's bill that's been drawn under my name and I'm asking this House that another language other than English and Te Reo Māori be used by members when they take their oath or their declaration of allegiance in this House. Today we've heard a member from the National Party who has come in because the tigers they were in the last Government have become pussies and some of them have just fallen off and have gone off and we've had to replace them off the list. I want to send a message to Agnes Loheni and to the member who stood in New Lynn for the National Party to practise Samoan and Italian because by the time they come in—it may be June July—they probably will be able to say take their oath in Samoan or Italian because I tell you people in this last Government are dropping off like flies. Thank you.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."