Prime Willow-JeanWILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour): E Te Māngai o Te Whare. What I find interesting is that in this general debate I would have thought that the other side would have used this as an opportunity to do their speeches for the leadership campaign. I'm surprised actually that they didn't. They are trying to find somebody who can match the very popular Jacinda Ardern our current Prime Minister. They are trying to find somebody with youth. They are trying to find somebody who can appeal to a different generation. We've seen these tweets and these reports and these updates coming through. What I challenge the other side to do is to find a leader who has as much heart as our Prime Minister has. We are a Government with heart versus the Opposition. I am still disturbed by some of the comments I heard in the debate yesterday on the bill for the reduction of child poverty. I heard comments like This will do nothing to change the outcome." made by the Hon Paula Bennett. "This will do nothing for child poverty. This will not change the status quo." I heard quotes for example that "Our children are in poverty because their parents make bad decisions." and blaming it on the parents for spending money on alcohol—that there are parents and there are families who don't want free lunches or the raincoats that are being offered. The challenges thrown out from the other side for us to go to Kaikohe and see some of the great work that the other side were doing—I heard blame; I heard denial; I heard personal responsibility arguments being given; I heard about economic growth being the solution to all of our problems.Well what we saw today was the report released by the Salvation Army on the state of our nation. What does that report say? We've had a 12 percent increase in families needing food parcels. It highlights the real-life impact of a decade of management that left too many people behind. Nine years of neglect. We also received another report this week on the stocktake of New Zealand's housing. The housing crisis is worse than we even knew it to be. The previous Government had no heart. They denied there was a housing crisis. They denied that child poverty was an issue.Well our Government is not prepared to tolerate this. We are going to do something about it. In the first 100 days of being in Government we have already done a significant amount of things to address these issues. But that is not it. We have got a lot more work to do and we are absolutely committed to doing that work.We heard actually that on the birthday of one of the members who spoke earlier she marched about charter schools. Well I'm proud to say that on my birthday the Hon Grant Robertson introduced the Families Package. That Families Package will benefit over 385000 families. We introduced the Best Start payment. That is going to be of benefit to the more than 65000 babies that are born every year in this country. We are extending Working for Families; reinstating the independent earner tax credit; increasing the accommodation supplement; the accommodation benefit; a winter energy payment that will benefit approximately one million people; and lifesaving legislation in the passing of the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2). That is lifesaving legislation that is going to make a huge difference to the people that live in my region in Northland who are suffering from respiratory illnesses that are caused by cold damp housing.Our priority our focus is to put children and to put people back at the heart of everything that we do. I was proud of our Prime Minister when she stood on my marae at Te Whare Rūnanga on Waitangi Day saying and challenging—making the statement that she wants to be judged on her actions. She wants to earn the right to stand on the mahau of that whare and to speak. She is saying to all those that come to Waitangi next year to judge her on what we deliver. We are a Government that wants to be held accountable. We are prepared to put what we want to do and aim to do into legislation so we can be measured against that. We have achieved a lot in the first 100 days but there is a lot more to come. Kia ora."