Lorck AnnaANNA LORCK (Labour—Tukituki): I rise as the proud member of the Tukituki electorate in the Hawke's Bay region which is absolutely booming. The bill today is about approving the investment—the investment—we are going to make into driving New Zealand forward into the future.I'd like to start by talking about jobs. The investment from this bill is going to go into our Apprenticeship Boost programme. Now in Hawke's Bay in Hastings we have got an Apprenticeship Boost programme that I am proud to speak on. I went and visited 20 apprentices who were on a housing development programme learning how to build learning how to be electricians learning how to be plumbers—women young men old men you name it they were on the Apprenticeship Boost programme. And this is part of the bill in investing this money in the first quarter to make sure that the Apprenticeship Boost programme can continue. Now it was a win-win solution. It was a win-win solution because not only were they learning how to earn a trade they were also building homes for the future. They were building homes that were going to be used for transitional housing to get more people into homes and that is a very important part of the Budget.Now as the member for Tukituki I'd like to discuss a part of the Budget around the spending appropriations that we're doing that came right from the heart of Hawke's Bay. In doing this I would like to acknowledge five special people: people that were part of the budgeting service advice which is part of this bill. We will be ensuring that their funding continues. I'd like to acknowledge Kristal Leach from Budget First in Hastings Carmel Thompson from Central Hawke's Bay Budget Advisory Services Ngaio Bell from Wairoa Financial Literacy Services Kerry Henderson and Debbie Mackintosh from Napier Family Centre. Now they are budget advisory people who have had money to invest and to make sure that they were able to provide the service during the COVID lockdown. Now they advocated really hard to ensure that that money—the $20 million not only for Hawke's Bay but for the whole country—would continue.Now it was a very good example—a great example which I did talk about locally—about how local work can make a difference; a real difference. A difference because it shows that people on the ground this Government is listening to and this Government is prepared to invest with them. And those budget services—particularly in this time where people are finding it difficult they need to be able to tap into budget services to make sure that they can have the support and the knowledge they need to ensure they can budget well.Now today we've been speaking on three waters as part of the investment that was going into this Budget. And as the local member for Tukituki and Hastings—where of course the water crisis started in Havelock North which has spurred on the three waters bill—as the local MP I have publicly come out and talked about the jobs it's going to create—the jobs for the future. Building infrastructure the pipes and the drains—that's the investment that's going to be going in and that's why we need to make sure that Hastings is right at the forefront of that. We're seven years ahead of the rest of the country we've already invested in our water infrastructure getting our drinking water back and now we are going to be showing the country. And that is why it's so important and I believe that Hastings and Hawke's Bay should be an absolute capital for three waters because it's going to grow hundreds of jobs and that's about the future—that's about the future. And this is what this Budget does: it invests in the future.Now I do have to turn at this point to a couple of mentions in the House today particularly from the ACT Party. Now the leader of the ACT Party said he was down with the kids. Well I'm up with the kids. I'm up with the kids because this cost of living payment is going to go to students—hard-working students who need support. And that's good for those students—those hard-working students who've got through COVID done their part and we absolutely should be investing in them. And that cost of living payment students have done it tough students have done it tough too so why not invest in them? Because I know that they will absolutely benefit from investing. And those students they go out too and they need to pay rent and pay for their food too so good on them. So up with the kids not down with the kids like the ACT Party.Another part of these appropriations is about health—a major investment in health. And today I got to stand beside our former Hawke's Bay District Health Board CEO Keriana Brooking. And I can think of no one better to stand by when we talked through the rural health that we are doing for this country. And I tell you it was one of the proudest moments. And I'd like to take this opportunity as we look to the future of health to thank Keriana Brooking to thank her and also to thank all the DHB board members—and yes I was an elected DHB board member—and as we look forward to investing in health to thank them too for the hard work and service that they have done.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! I'm very confident that the member is going to segue even closer to the bills at hand.ANNA LORCK: OK absolutely Madam Speaker.So as we go through this I would like to say that as we invest in the future and we look to make sure that we appropriate the funds for the Budget so that we can absolutely invest in what needs to be done because this Government the Labour Government is investing in people we don't hear anything like that from the other side—no. We don't hear about investing in people. No vision—no. But we've got a vision in this Budget. We've got a vision because we are making sure that things like the winter energy payment—that's something that the ACT Party doesn't agree with and the National Party isn't very in favour of either but no we invest in the winter energy payment. And of course we are also looking and investing in making sure for one very important part here: dental grants—dental grants for low-income Kiwis will be more than tripled from $300 to $1000. And no longer will they have to have emergency work.Budget 2022 really invests forward. And the thing is our debt is low. New Zealand's debt is low. It is lower than the US it is lower than the UK's it is lower than Canada's and it is lower than Australia's. We have low debt in New Zealand and that is what we need to continually say because as I started Hawke's Bay and Hastings are booming from the investment that's coming in: into housing into jobs into education into cleaning up our water. All of these things have an incredible impact on the hard-working people who have to get out there and do the mahi. And that's the other thing: we need to absolutely make sure that we have jobs for the future. That's what this Budget and the investment is all about and it's a bright future. And Hastings in the heart of Hawke's Bay the engine room of the economy is getting a significant amount of this Budget into growing our jobs apprentices building houses improving our health services—all those things that make sure that people across our region and across New Zealand are touched because this Budget of any budget I have ever seen touches almost every person in one way or another. And that's a big deal—that's a big deal—and I'm absolutely thrilled to speak on this and on behalf of Hawke's Bay. Thank you Madam Speaker.