Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): I'm really pleased to be able to speak to this Budget Policy Statement today. I want to focus on political choices. That's what every single Budget Policy Statement always is and always will be. Political choice is about what we value—whether we are going to value those who have been doing it tough the most for generation after generation; whether we are going to continue to allow for those who have been given more support than they will ever need and whether they are going to continue to see more support like landlords receiving $2.9 billion worth of tax cuts when they do not need them. Those are political choices.We have in Aotearoa everything—let me say that again: everything—that we need to ensure that everyone lives good lives; to ensure that we are protecting our environment for generations to come; to ensure that we are taking the strongest action for a stable climate for mokopuna that we possibly can. We have everything in Aotearoa and the Budget Policy Statement along with the analysis of the Finance and Expenditure Committee outlines where this Government is making clear what their choices are.If the Greens were in Government and were actually controlling and running the Budget we know that we would prioritise and make the choice to end homelessness. Now we can actually clear the public housing register in five years—clear the public housing register—if we choose to scale up and invest in public housing—in public housing—and actually clear the public housing register. Because investing in ending homelessness has generational positive impacts.This National Government has made it quite clear that they will continue to support houses being used as capital investments to build more wealth for people who are already wealthy. That is what this National Government is choosing to prioritise instead of massively massively ramping up and scaling up public housing—public housing. We could choose to end poverty in this country—we could choose to end poverty. Instead this Government is choosing to introduce more sanctions that will push more hardship upon the people who have the least. So instead of choosing to end poverty this Government is going to make it worse for people who are struggling the most.So I really wanted to point out that there are political choices. The Greens know that we have what we need for free dental for ending and clearing the public housing register for a guaranteed minimum income to make sure that everyone has what they need to make sure that people can go to the doctor and the dentist and get healthcare when they need without having to worry at all about their financial situation. We could choose to continue the funding for Jobs for Nature where as I've been hearing from around the country we finally were able to see hapū iwi marae and communities working with their young people reconnecting the hearts of young people and their local communities to what they love being able to sustain an income by protecting their wetlands their waters their bush health their soil health by protecting ecosystems for biodiversity and the look on the rangatahi faces and how much they are enjoying and growing from that mahi. We could choose to continue funding those things.So I want to be really clear this Budget Policy Statement is about what this Government values—they value landlords. They value landlords who already have more than enough—$2.9 billion—and they are trying to make out like the few dollars that they are going to afford those on the lowest incomes is of benefit when really the benefits are going to those who already have enough. That is the choice of this Government. The Greens know that people deserve far more than that. Thank you Mr Speaker.