Swarbrick Chlöe; Rurawhe AdrianCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central): E te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. I guess I just want to stand to make a contribution on behalf of the Green Party tonight to address some of the concerns that have been put forward by members of the Opposition and that is primarily What's in it for me as far as this Budget goes?". We've heard about all of these different groups in our society who are supposedly missing out and we've also heard particularly the Hon Simon Bridges lamenting the fact that in here there is billions for beneficiaries. That is for our lowest-income New Zealanders who we know we have to raise the incomes of if we want to do anything meaningful about inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand. We all ultimately benefit from having a more equal society where everybody has the access to the basics to be able to fulfil their potential and engage in the opportunity that is otherwise taken from them. I think that this is actually something that mental health spokespeople from across this House including Matt Doocey can surely see for what it is—that is in He Ara Oranga the Government's mental health and addiction inquiry we saw laid bare the mental health crisis in this country fundamentally generated by recognition of the fact that sure all of us are born with a biological predisposition towards the manifestation or not of issues but it is also our environment and—Nicola Willis: Ha ha!CHLÖE SWARBRICK: —our society which can drive the manifestation the aggravation or mitigation of those issues. The key issues as identified in that mental health and addiction report—which I might add Nicola Willis Matt Doocey has very much come on in support of from my understanding thus far in our cross-party work—are very much those public health drivers of poverty of a lack of sense of meaning in one's life and of a lack of sense of identity and whakapapa. When you increase incomes for our lowest-income New Zealanders what you end up securing is that sense of place and that greater sense of security in one's future. But I also want to touch on a point raised by other members of the Opposition and that is the debt for our future generations. Therein I think it's really important to unpack some of the mythology that they've attempted to create through their rhetoric tonight: firstly is the fact that they continue to raise that debt is going to be paid down slowly. There I might add that the very debt track that the Government has signed up to is actually faster than what they campaigned on in the 2020 election. That aside however we had the Minister of Finance in front of the Finance and Expenditure Committee a few weeks ago and there I got the Minister on the record to effectively admit or submit that that debt track is something that the Minister himself and the Government have confined themselves to. These are decisions fiscal policy decisions that the Government gets to make and there I think it's really important to reflect—as actually is made really explicit in the Wellbeing Budget 2021: Securing Our Recovery document at figure 14 which demonstrates it really clearly—that the interest payments on the debt that the Government is taking on are actually less than inflation which means that now is the perfect time to be borrowing to invest in that infrastructure for future generations. That actually brings us to another one of the mythologies that the Opposition has been peddling today and that is that this debt is some massive financial or fiscal burden that future generations are going to take on. To that effect we only have to look at the reporting by the likes of for example Bernard Hickey on just how it has been since the 1980s to the 1990s where we have seen a pulling forward of funding in what should be the infrastructure for future generations in turn meaning that my generation and the generations that come after me are carrying that debt already in terms of the need to invest in our public transport in our classrooms and in of course our whānau across Aotearoa New Zealand. I also just finally want to touch on the point of immense pride for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and obviously the contributions that our Ministers and co-leaders the Hon Marama Davidson and James Shaw have made both with regard to investment in ending domestic and sexual violence and ending homelessness but also the hypothecation of that revenue raised out of the emissions trading scheme which sets us on a pathway to start to meet those commitments that we ourselves have declared ourselves to. Just in my final few seconds I feel an immense need to make a shout-out to Mojo Mathers former Green Party MP because we got a funding line in here for the Election Access Fund at $3 million for disabled New Zealanders to run for general elections.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."