Martin TraceyHon TRACEY MARTIN (Minister for Seniors): Thank you Mr Speaker. First of all can I just address something that a teacher said on the forecourt this morning—Brett Hudson: Give me more money." is what she said.Hon TRACEY MARTIN: That was one of the things they said but the other thing they said was that they were the counsellors for our children that they were the social workers for our children and that they were the learning support experts for our children. And they are right because those specialists those supports have been so ignored by the previous Government for the last decade that our teachers have had to become all things to all people hence why Minister Hipkins and I and the rest of this Government are working on a wellbeing Budget that will address all of those indicators beyond the school gates. How many times did the teaching profession tell the last Government that all these things were affecting the children inside our schools so please address housing please address food security please address poverty please address the lack of counselling and social workers—and they did nothing. So today I proudly stood with Minister Hipkins as we faced something that the previous Ministers never ever did—faced those teachers and said "We are doing this for you."The other thing that happened the other day is I saw Bill English in the airport. I sat down; I had a chat with him. He's a lovely man. I miss him. He is a man of integrity. He is a man of exceptionally high moral calibre. He would never have allowed what that party did in the last 48 hours. Everybody in this House knows that Budget documents are confidential. Regardless of how somebody gives you a Budget document everybody knows that they are confidential documents. Regardless of how a confidential document comes into your hands you know it to be confidential. You know that somehow somewhere somebody's done something they shouldn't have done. Bill English would not have made the same decision that the leadership of the National Party made the other day. So all I'm saying is that we miss Bill. That's all I'm saying about that.On 26 October 2017 I was sworn in as the Minister for Seniors. Seven months later I was called to the Social Services and Community Committee to answer for the Estimates. The Hon Maggie Barry was subbed in at that time to make sure that she as the previous Minister for Seniors questioned me about the funding and the spending of the Office for Seniors. It was a little confusing because the Minister kept asking about things that had no delegation inside the Office for Seniors at that time yet she was the previous Minister for Seniors. From October 2014 to October 2017 that member had been the Minister for Seniors but she did not appear to understand what the delegations were inside that portfolio. She questioned about when we were going to be investing in the SuperGold card. I'm pleased to now be able to tell her $7.7 million—no investment at all in the SuperGold card during the period of time that that member was the Minister for Seniors; zero investment in the SuperGold card in the time that that member was the Minister for Seniors—$7.7 million to make sure that our seniors get better access to services and discounts to spread their superannuation.Six hundred thousand dollars has recently been announced around supporting our seniors with digital technology—budgets finances that were cut under the previous Government. SeniorNet's budgets were cut under the previous Government so that there was less digital support for our seniors. We've seen Kiwibank do away with cheques and yet that Government decided that our seniors didn't need any more support around digital technology.With regard to ACC more of our seniors are working past the age of 65. If they have an accident in the workforce for the two years following that accident they no longer have to choose between ACC or superannuation; they will get both—they will get both—because that better represents their actual workplace that better represents the income that they should get. They were working and paying ACC levies. It is only fair; it is only right. This Government will do right by seniors."