Davis KelvinHon KELVIN DAVIS (Deputy Leader—Labour): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Unfortunately the last 10 minutes are 10 minutes of my life I can't reclaim. That was a speech spoken by somebody who's never ever been outside of his little Epsom bubble and actually seen the hardship the lack of housing the homelessness and the poverty in the areas such as Tai Tokerau that I represent.Let me just start by acknowledging the Prime Minister for her bold vision—her bold vision for housing her bold vision for health her bold vision for education her bold vision for children and her bold vision for people. As my colleague Grant Robertson ended his Budget speech by saying He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata he tangata he tangata."—Hon Judith Collins: Oh what a cliché.Hon KELVIN DAVIS: —this is a Budget for people. I hear the Opposition over there upset that they're still not on this side. What they don't realise is that the majority of New Zealanders actually abandoned what they stand for.But let me just acknowledge Grant Robertson the Minister of Finance for his hard work in delivering a Budget that brings this Government's vision to life. I just want to acknowledge also on this side of the House all of our MPs across the coalition Government our confidence and supply partners but also my fellow Māori Ministers and our Māori MPs from our party from the Green Party and from New Zealand First.This Budget is proof that when you have strong Māori representation across the board and in every corner of Government and Parliament you can do great things for our people.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I do like to do great things but please don't bring me into the debate.Hon KELVIN DAVIS: We are bringing positive stable and energetic Government. We are laying the foundations for the future and as the Deputy Prime Minister said we are having to patch up nine years of woeful neglect. It was only when we were going through this Budget process that we saw the extent of the neglect in the health system and in the education system. You don't have to drive far around New Zealand—sorry Madam Deputy Speaker; not you. We don't have to drive very far around New Zealand to see the woeful housing and homelessness situation.This Budget 2018 delivers for Māori. It delivers on the promises made by our Prime Minister both at Waitangi and at Rātana. If there's an enduring image from Waitangi it is the image of the Prime Minister leaning over a hot barbecue serving the people and it's about time we had a Prime Minister that actually served the people and not just their own self interests. She promised that this Government would be a caring Government a Government that put people at the centre and a Government that would introduce this uniquely Māori concept of manaakitanga—in other words compassion; compassion for the people. Regardless of who they are and where they live this is a Budget for everybody. Nine years of neglect by the previous National Government has come across in housing in education and in healthcare and it has hurt our people the most. I'm proud to stand here and say that Budget 2018 is where we start to bring manaakitanga back to the Government. So this Budget delivers for whānau and our tamariki.One of the most enduring messages that the Prime Minister said is that we could have made the political decision to hold off our Families Package—$5.5 billion worth of spending—until today so that we could have this big burst. But what is more important to our Prime Minister and more important to our finance Minister is that we deliver that Families Package of $5.5 billion worth of spending as soon as we possibly could so that our people didn't have to wait just for us to get a political hit. We had to deliver for them when they needed it.The Families Package—$5.5 billion—contributes $1.2 billion for Māori. That's over four years. It's to help whānau with accommodation supplements. It's to help with the winter energy payments. Now we all know—especially those of us on our side of the House—kaumātua and kuia who struggle with the heating. We know those kaumātua and kuia who would prefer to switch off the heater and go to bed at about 6 o'clock in the evening rather than endure the shame of not being able to pay their power bills. We know on this side because we're connected to our people; the people on the other side would not have a clue because they are out of touch.The Families Package boosts Working for Families. It's created the Best Start payment. The Families Package will help over 181000 Māori children living in poverty and we are extremely proud of that. It's going to help over 12000 Māori that are estimated to be living in severe housing deprivation.We also acknowledge the many kaumātua and kuia who are actually proxy parents for their grandchildren. Now I experienced this and saw this as a principal up in the far north—Hon Judith Collins: Urgh.Hon KELVIN DAVIS: —the grandparents who are—and I hear over here them sighing because they don't have any idea about how people are affected around the country. That's a shame on those people over there who are sighing and making out like it's not an issue because it is an issue. It's a very real issue to people.So grandparents are having to act as parents but they never ever got funded to help with the needs of their children so Budget 2018 provides $104.9 million of operating funds over four years for clothing allowances for children supported by the orphans allowance and unsupported child's benefit. We know about half of these carers are our people—they are Māori. As we know Maslow's hierarchy of needs says that if you don't have air if you don't have water if you don't have food and if you don't have clothing and warmth you are not able to reach your full potential.This Budget shows we care about the future of our rangatahi. We're investing $14 million into enhancing education and employment outcomes for rangatahi. We have said as a Government we want to do things differently. The new approach is an example of how we're using new and innovative ways to support rangatahi across the education and employment pathway but this fund targets rangatahi who are most disengaged by supporting those aged between 15 and 24 that aren't in education employment or training. We're taking a whānau-centred and community-led approach which will bring together an all-encompassing support network for the rangatahi to achieve their aspirations.I'm really proud to be delivering for Māori education needs. We have three initiatives that are going to help Māori education. The first is Te Ahu o Te Reo Māori—Hon David Bennett: What happened to Waikeria Kelvin?Hon KELVIN DAVIS: —which is fulfilling our promise Mr Bennett—me whakarongo koe kia mōhio ai koe taku korero [you have to listen so that you know what I'm saying]—to integrate Te Reo Māori into the curriculum by 2025. That's $11.4 million that will go. It'll help teachers—online support; it will help the Te Reo Māori teacher networks; and it will deliver guidelines and resources towards teaching. We're going to have a big education event for teachers who wish to speak Te Reo Māori. We are delivering for our people there.Then of course there's Te Kawa Matakura—something totally new something totally unique in New Zealand where for the first time we are going to develop a uniquely Māori qualification that measures Māori achievement in mātauranga Māori because at the moment we want our young people to achieve success as Māori. Now how does saying I've got NCEA alone deliver that? So we're delivering a uniquely Māori qualification that's going to help Māori to achieve as Māori. We'd really like the Opposition to get on board with this new qualification because all they've done in the past is ram unwanted reforms down our educational throats. National standards was a failure—DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member's time has expired."