Dean Jacqui; Mallard TrevorHon JACQUI DEAN (Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs): I will start with New Zealand families because of course New Zealand families are the foundation of our country. They are our future and they are incredibly important to all of us across this House.But I do want to run through a few facts and figures because I think the Budget this year is the Budget that shows that this Government cares for all New Zealanders. So I am going to start with the Family Incomes Package which illustrates the economic savvy of our finance Minister unlike that displayed by the member who just resumed his seat Kris Faafoi who decried an expenditure of just over $400 million as if it were a mere bagatelle—as if $400 million was just a snap and just a fraction of the money that the Labour Party and the Opposition would just keep throwing at things to make them better. Well they tried that. In the Labour Government members had 9 years to try that and that did not end terribly well for them.This Government cares for families and this Budget supports families. There is new expenditure of just over $2 billion a year in the family support package and that will provide reward for New Zealanders' hard work. New Zealanders have worked hard over the 9 years. We understand that. We not going to throw their money around and waste their money. We are going to use New Zealanders' hard-earned money and we are going to put more of that money back into their own pockets. It is so important that New Zealand families have a direct share in the benefits of what is turning out to be a strong economy now and into the future.I am just going to go through some of the facts and figures around the Family Incomes Package. On average 1.3 million working-age families will be $26 better off under this package and 136000 low-income families will benefit by increases to the accommodation supplement. Labour did not do that—Labour had the chance to do that—and 136000 families will benefit. People earning over $22000 a year will be $11 a week better off. That is significant in a family. People earning over $52000 a year will be $20 a week better off. That is significant. Around 750000 superannuitants and 41000 students will also benefit from the Family Incomes Package.This Government has crafted a Budget for all New Zealanders but I want to leave families there for a moment because how does that expenditure fit into the wider Budget that this Government has crafted? This Budget is about delivering better services for what is a growing economy. The Government is allocating $7 billion over 4 years in this Budget to sustain and expand public services in health in education in law and order and in social development.I just want to pause there and congratulate the Hon Paula Bennett Minister of Police for her very sensible and proactive announcement today that she is putting extra resources into assisting retailers and shopkeepers who are coming under sustained attack from young thugs" I think they were described as today. Minister Tolley said today that young thugs are going into shops and undertaking aggravated robberies on hard-working New Zealanders. I would love to see Labour decry that expenditure. It is nuanced it is a good investment and it will benefit small businesses in New Zealand.I will move on to small business but there are just a couple of other figures—Grant Robertson: Well that would be good because the Budget didn't.Hon JACQUI DEAN: You see Labour does not want to hear the figures but here they come: over 4 years $3.9 billion dollars in New Zealand's health sector. Now I am a member and I take an interest in the Southern District Health Board and the South Canterbury District Health Board. There will be extra funding going into both of those health boards to deliver more health services for New Zealand: more elective surgeries; better healthcare for rural people for pregnant women and for the elderly—all sorts of healthcare—and more for the South Island. I celebrate that as I celebrate the expenditure across New Zealand.There is $1.1 billion for schools and early childhood centres—and thank you Hon Nikki Kaye for putting the expenditure and funding towards a new school for Wānaka. Wānaka is one of the fastest-growing areas in New Zealand. The Minister recognises that growth causes pressure and has responded by funding a new school for Wānaka—of course there are new schools throughout New Zealand—and four new classrooms for Mt Aspiring College. This is a Government that looks ahead understands the nature of growth and caters for it.But I want to go to small business now. I started talking about small business in the context of Auckland shopkeepers who are under attack by a number of young thugs and this Government is prepared to do something about that. I want to talk about the direct investment into small business. First of all I will talk about economic growth. Without economic growth you do not get benefits for a small budget but with an expected growth of 3.1 percent over the next 4 years there will be a good environment for small business and for enterprise to thrive. This expenditure in skills—we need more skilled workers we need more immigration and we need more people coming in to fill the skills gaps. But at the same time we need to be training up more workers to fill those gaps. I want to talk about the $100 million in tourism infrastructure. Tourism is another great success story for New Zealand and the New Zealand economy but with the success and the increasing number of tourists do come pressures. Those pressures fall largely on small tourist routes many of which are in the South Island. This $100 million package will go a long way in helping to provide those things like toilets and parking spaces—dealing with the pressures around freedom camping and dealing with the pressures around tourist drivers. That is a very positive Budget announcement that will help small business; those tourism businesses in tourism areas that are feeling the strain of growth—not such a bad thing. I also want to reference the increased expenditure announced in the Budget around irrigation. We know that in South Canterbury Canterbury North Otago and Central Otago their local economies have hugely benefited from the investment in irrigation but also as a benefit of that the environment has benefited as well. Water quality is benefiting from irrigation—not a popular message I hear for the Greens but I direct them down to the Ōpuha Dam to have a look at the water quality enhancement as a result of investment in irrigation; the community benefits and the environment benefits. I want to zero in now on the small business portfolio and talk about several well-funded initiatives in this Budget in particular under the umbrella of the Better for Business – Result 9 programme. This is about making the environment easier for small business to do business with Government. The one thing that small businesses need is the framework to enable them to go about their business and when they have to interact with Government—with Inland Revenue with Immigration with Work and Income—they can do that with ease. I do direct listeners and viewers to business.govt.nz which has received extra funding; it gets $3 million annually. That is the website for small businesses to go on to have a look at the employment relations builder and to have a look at how they can make their New Zealand Business Number work.Finally I want to finish by talking about the small-business roadshows. We are travelling the length and breadth of New Zealand taking the Government to small-town New Zealand. We want businesses to understand that there are training vouchers available to them through Callaghan Innovation. There is assistance for them now in the changes to paying provisional tax.All of these things are designed to make doing business easier in New Zealand. Why? Because small business is a major contributor to the New Zealand economy. Small business makes up the vast economic endeavours in small-town New Zealand as it does in the cities. It should be supported. It is supported under this Government. This is truly a Budget that sets the framework for success continuing success not only in small business—which is my portfolio—but for all New Zealanders. Thank you. The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Dr Kennedy Graham—a 5-minute call."