Luxton JoJO LUXTON (Labour—Rangitata): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure. I rise to take a call in this general debate today. This is the first opportunity I've had to speak in the general debate since we had the terrible flooding in Canterbury; so I do want to begin my contribution with some acknowledgments to people who were involved in that.First and foremost I wish to acknowledge our farmers and our rural community who were so devastatingly affected by the floods that we had nearly a couple of months ago. It's been a hugely stressful time for many of these people and from what we have seen though they are extremely resilient and we have come together quite beautifully as a community to support those farmers in that space.I'd also like to acknowledge our mayor Neil Brown for his leadership and his fantastic communication skills with our community and nationally during that time and behind every good man there is obviously a very very good woman and so it would be remiss of me not to mention our deputy mayor Liz McMillan who also supported in a really great way.I think it's important to acknowledge everyone who was involved at the time: Farmy Army Student Volunteer Army great initiatives like Taskforce Green who I have heard since helped out in that flooding event and that a couple have gone on to employment in some of the farming areas that they may have helped out in. Rural support has played a huge and vital role in this recovery period as well.I'd also really like to thank David Clark and Greg Anderson our presidents from Mid and South Canterbury Federated Farmers for their support that they showed our farmers at the time. Especially I'd like to thank Chris and Ann-Marie Allen Stacey and Mark Stewart Darryl and Lynn Butterick Laurence and Phillippa Rooney who allowed us on to their farms to see the devastating impact of those floods. They have such a huge huge task ahead of them with their clean up and so I wish them all the best in that. And I know it's just not going to be an easy road at all; it is going to take months—who knows possibly even years—to come back from.I'd really like to thank our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who came down twice after the floods and our mayor Neil Brown acknowledged the other day that because she did that that made the community feel very very supported and that we were thinking of them at that time. We also had Minister Faafoi Minister Woods and Minister O'Connor come down and visit and we had the announcement of the $4 million to help towards recovery. Whilst we know that's certainly not going to fix everything it is a great help in going forward in supporting some of that financial recovery. This Government is focused on our COVID-19 recovery and what we've seen through that is a focus on jobs in infrastructure and training. I was lucky enough to visit Jenkins Contracting in Timaru the other day with my Education and Workforce Committee colleagues to see what impact that is having in reality and on the ground. In Timaru we were lucky to have Venture Timaru who took care of what was called the apprenticeship—I can't even think of the word now—scheme where we got quite a high level of funding up to $40000 per apprentice. They were expecting this to roll out over 12 months. Well all these spaces 100 spaces were filled within five months and Grant Jenkins from Jenkins Contracting has taken on I think around six apprentices. He has said that what this has allowed them to do is take a chance on these people and give the more senior members in his workforce time—really good quality time—to spend training up these apprentices something that may not have been able to happen before because when you're really busy and we know the construction sector is hugely busy time is of the essence to get jobs and things done for your clients. Having the ability to take on these people with that financial support has been absolutely fantastic.We were also lucky enough to visit some places that were providing lunches in schools. I want to give a shout-out to Lunch By Libelle who have employed 13 local people. They are actually living-wage employers and they roll out 1300 lunches per day in Timaru to our children who desperately need that. It allows them to work much better in school pay more attention and have the ability to learn. Thank you very much Mr Speaker.