Williams PotoHon POTO WILLIAMS (Minister for Building and Construction): Thank you Madam Speaker. First a mihi to my home region for the stuff that's happening down there at the moment. I want to commend the work of the Hon Kris Faafoi and others in supporting our region to recover from what's been a fairly devastating 72 hours etc. You know thankfully many of us in Christchurch were saved the worst of it but Ashburton and North Canterbury—really disappointing to have to go through this again. But you know that terrible R" word that we roll out in Canterbury "resilient" we are people who have been through this before and the most amazing thing about coming from Canterbury is that we are people that do work together to get the best outcomes for us all.I've often followed the previous speaker the Hon David Bennett in debates and I kind of wonder why that is. Am I being punished for something? Because you know I feel like we kind of wake him up from his little siesta and he says a few things and then he sits down there. But Mr Bennett I'm here to say that I am a socialist and am proud of it. And really just amazing because I have—Hon David Bennett: Point of order. That was clearly inaudible that last comment. If she actually believes it say it like you mean it.Hon POTO WILLIAMS: Thank you very much. I am a socialist and proud of it! I have the best job in the world because I get to work with an incredible Prime Minister the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern who actually speaks and walks and talks the values of the Labour Party every single day. I'm so proud to be part of that team. And I'm proud to support the Minister of Finance Grant Robertson who I think if he wasn't doing this he would probably be commentating cricket or something like that because he is just an all-round great guy and I'm so proud to be here supporting this Government in this the best job in the world. I say that because the programme of work that we've got coming up—record building consents a massive infrastructure programme. What we're doing is actually supporting our people to take up those roles by training them. We're outstripping our own targets in terms of people in training in the building and construction sector—outstripping them by easily double. Not only that apprenticeships are seeing more and more and more women coming into the trades. Really extraordinary amazing stuff going on. And I'm proud of the wellbeing agenda that we have been running for the last couple of years.I have got a couple of great roles: of course building and construction but also in police. I'm proud to be the Minister of Police and proud of their work—that they get out there every day supporting us. There are a couple of things I want to just correct and that's some misinformation that the Opposition spokesperson has put out about the Budget. I just want to correct that in terms of the work that we've still yet to land in our negotiations around our road policing. So that will add to our budget bottom lines and the work that has now been completed on the Whanganui police hub which will come out of this year's Estimates. But what is really great what I'm really grateful for is the work that police are doing that they will continue to do and that we will continue to support them around Operation Tauwhiro. Now in the House today I got to update the House on just how well we are doing in that particular operation: 522 firearms seized; $2.76 million in cash; 476 people arrested—and that's since February. That's an extraordinary piece of work that the police are doing getting out there keeping us safe every day. But not only that the work that they are doing in partnerships like Whāngaia Ngā Pā Harakeke and the integrated safety response which is around dealing with the issue of family harm which is something that has troubled this country for an awful long time. You cannot do this work alone. This is about working in partnerships. And I'm really proud of the work that the pilots of Te Pae Oranga have demonstrated that there is a way to divert young people from entering the justice system in the first place. That's the stuff that will actually stop the overrepresentation of Māori and Pacific in the negative stats around the justice system and I'm really proud of that. I am a socialist Mr Bennett and proud of it."