Woods Megan; Rurawhe AdrianHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): There is so much to be grateful for here in New Zealand. I think that one of the things that is important as a group of people or as the team of 5 million is that we do take from time to time the chance to reflect on the fact that we can look to the future with hope with optimism and that we can see opportunity. This is not something that all those around the world have the privilege of doing. We did not get here by accident. We got here by collective effort from all New Zealanders who made a decision that we were going to put people first and that our health response was going to be our best economic response. The hard work that we all put in as a country last year gives us this hope this optimism and this ability to see opportunity and I think that we do have to sometimes pause be mindful of that and realise just how we lucky we are. We are a Government that has a very clear mission of what needs to happen now. We do need to continue to keep New Zealanders safe from COVID. I think we only need look around the world to see that this is a global pandemic that is far from over. It requires vigilant behaviour on our part as a Government and that is what we are committed to doing. But alongside this we are a Government that is absolutely committed to accelerating our economic recovery and starting to build back better and address those long-term challenges like housing affordability like childhood poverty and like climate change. These are the issues that we must address. What we have to do is continue to ensure that New Zealand's people and economy are in the best position that they possibly can be at this unprecedented time not only in our nation's history but in our global history. We have a responsibility as a Government but we also have a responsibility as a House as a House of Parliament to do that as well and that is something that our Government is absolutely committed to doing. I think one of the things that New Zealanders all around the country tell me when I'm out and about is how happy they are in the way in which the Government has managed the books through this crisis and the way in which the careful management is now reaping those returns. We can look to the household labour force survey that came out today and showed that actually the unemployment rates that we are experiencing are nowhere near what was being predicted. We have managed to care for New Zealanders. We can look at our joblessness rate across those countries in the OECD that we would compare ourselves with and we can see how well we are doing. We can look at how our economy is performing relative to many of those other countries that we would compare ourselves to and we can see how well we are doing. Again this was not done by accident and I would like to acknowledge the work of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance who has stewarded us through this period of time to ensure that we are continuing to look after New Zealanders. Jobs aren't turning up by accident as the Minister for Social Development and Employment was talking about in the House today. We are investing in our people. We are investing in apprenticeships. We are investing in making sure that we are getting young people into the trades and they are flocking to those schemes. When we have a look at what we have to do we know there are many challenges ahead of us. We know that we have to continue to repair the damage that was done that has led to the housing crisis. We know we have to continue to build houses and that is what we are committed to doing. We are committed to continuing to look after one another and to invest in our future a future that is rich in jobs and responds to those big challenges that we face as a nation. We can continue to hold our heads high and see just how well—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.