Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Thank you Madam Chair. I'm pleased to take a very short call on this Appropriation (2016/17 Confirmation and Validation) Bill. As a person that's new to the select committee process and having to pore through some of the annual reports especially that one of Treasury it was an interesting process to go through. One thing that I've learnt is that across the political spectrum we do have to work together; however our lenses are a little bit different and the way that we see things is a little bit different. So when Treasury came to us and they gave us the numbers and we heard the rhetoric about the strong stable economy we realised very quickly that the strong stable economy that the Opposition talk of was actually achieved by not paying the bills. What happened was that because they failed to pay the bills at Middlemore Hospital we've had to actually sweep in and clean up the mess. Because they haven't stepped in and helped the teachers out and paid them we have to step in and fix that up. Because they haven't paid the nurses we have to step in and fix all of that up. Because we have unsafe roads around the country that have been neglected for the last nine years we have had to step in and try and fix all of that up. So it's a happy job sitting there poring over the annual reviews and thinking about the kinds of things that we're going to do to turn the situation around. What we've decided to do is face up to the facts that our people out there are really struggling and put in place some things that are going to help out there. Right now there are big discussions happening on the Whakatāne side of the electorate which I'm sure you're very familiar with about the homelessness problem. It's because the Opposition when they were in Government didn't pay the bills when it came to housing. They didn't build any houses and as a result we've got a homelessness problem in places like Whakatāne and just starting to burgeon in small towns like Ōpōtiki as well. In Rotorua we're still facing that homelessness crisis and again it's up to us to fix that up. When it comes to our families who are the central operational unit of the country we've also had to dip deep into our pockets too and invest $5.5 billion. That is all with the aim of lifting the income of 384000 families of which a very certain percentage are Māori and they will be lifted out of their situations due to some good decision-making by this Government.Let me also talk about the provincial growth fund as well—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Can I just interrupt the member. He has actually had almost three minutes. At some stage during this he has to refer to the period under review—right?—not just gloss over it and talk about the future. I refer you to Speaker's ruling 131/3. You do actually have to talk about the review.TAMATI COFFEY: Thank you for that—thank you for that Madam Chair. Let's dig down into it then. Let's get into what was previously mentioned about the way that we're going to be looking at our economy and we're going to move away from things like GDP growth as just being the sole indicator. We're going to be looking at these well-being budgets which the previous speaker Amy Adams identified as being a bit airy-fairy not really knowing what that's all about. But in fact what it's doing and what it is going to be doing which is what we've talked about in our annual reviews is we're moving to a situation where we're not just talking about the dollars and cents; we're actually talking about the well-being of the community. That is how Treasury going forward is going to be reporting back in its annual Budget and its annual reporting statements. This Government has also through the annual review process highlighted the fact that we have set up this Tax Working Group. That's been a very contentious issue out there in the public but actually the Tax Working Group is something that we've talked about along with our Budget responsibility rules too. The Budget responsibility rules are something that we've talked about at great length and it's something that we've put in place to make sure that when Treasury is reporting back we've got a framework to work towards. What I managed to do through sitting through things like the Financial Stability Report and the annual review from Treasury was just ascertain a general picture of what has been done and what we are going to be doing looking into the future. It was a very hard process at times sitting there listening to officials and poring over numbers especially when you're not an accountant or a financial adviser. Times like that can be a little bit rough but we made it through and I'm happy to stand and make a contribution on this particular bill. Thank you.