Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Nobody's interested in Mr Bishop's stupid letter. No one's interested in Mr Bishop's stupid letter. They're interested in Ginny Andersen and in Ginny Andersen taking his seat. We already know that. There's a lot of support for Ginny. Ginny sticks to the issues and the issues Mr Bishop are jobs. Yesterday the National Party were waiting. They were waiting for terrible and negative news and salivating because all their economist mates had told them the sky was going to fall in. The roofs were going to cave in. Everything was going to come to an end. Everything was over because the coalition Government had dared to put up the minimum wage had dared to treat workers with a bit of equity with a bit of support and with a bit of respect. That's right—a bit of respect.How dare the coalition Government treat workers with respect? And because of that the great patriots on the other side wanted the economy to drop to go through the floor. They wanted record unemployment. This is what the Opposition wanted. They were praying for it. They were praying for negativity. They're great patriots for you aren't they? Fancy wanting all that negativity. But what happened? They were salivating waiting. Three point nine percent—3.9 percent in terms of unemployment record unemployment—the best in 10 years.Hon Member: Ōpōtiki.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: We'll get to Ōpōtiki. Māori unemployment is down to 7.7 percent. I mean things are just getting better and better. I wonder how that happened? Oh we invested in the people—we invested in the people. Shane Jones went to the regions. We invested in young people. When we go to the regions they say to us National didn't want to know about us. They just gave us baseline—baseline funding." That's what the National Party did. They didn't want to go over the limit. They just wanted to give them peanuts. So in the regions we have heroes unsung heroes who never got an opportunity under the previous Government—Jack Johnson in the North Peeni Henare's whanaunga up there who's investing in young people going into the forests getting upskilled helping with Shane Jones' projects. We have a mana wahine team in the North all run by Jack Johnson. It's touching when we go there and they say to us "We love you. We embrace you. The last Government forgot about us—didn't want to know about us."We go down to the Ngāti Kahungunu and we meet with the mayor Sandra Hazlehurst. Sandra cried when we gave her funding—she cried. She said again National—well she didn't actually say that; we said that. But we said "National never gave you anything did they Sandra?" And she said of course "No. I'm just so overwhelmed because I have an opportunity to invest in young people through your scheme He Poutama Rangatahi." This is the Mayor of Hastings someone the Opposition doesn't care about—although Lawrence Yule was there and I say congratulations to Lawrence. He put politics to the side and I apologise to him for calling him a disgrace to Ngāti Kahungunu when I was in the House because he put the politics aside and he came and supported the kaupapa down there—Sandra Hazlehurst. In Ōpōtiki you would have seen the story on the TVNZ news the other night—an opportunity again. We've made more than $1.7 million in investments in Ōpōtiki with our He Poutama Rangatahi programme connecting our young people with trade. Then we have the pathways to trades in Tauranga and in Rotorua giving our people opportunity. We're so happy to be able to invest and support our people through He Poutama Rangatahi through Mana in Mahi giving people an opportunity. We get the dopey lot on the other side saying to us "Oh you've had a 30 percent drop-off in Mana in Mahi." We're proud of that. It's a 70 percent success rate with kids and whānau. Some of their fathers never work. Some of them come from drug backgrounds. Please tell them: stop asking idiotic and stupid questions about Mana in Mahi. Mana in Mahi is a success. This Government is a success. So we congratulate Grant Robertson. We congratulate Shane Jones. We're well on the way to success and I think I'll congratulate myself too as the Minister of Employment. We're on track. We're successful. Get positive National."