Leavasa Anae NeruDr ANAE NERU LEAVASA (Labour—Takanini): Fa'afetai lava Mr Speaker. I am so pleased with the recent announcement of a childcare support that will help alleviate some of the pressures on our whānau. The increases to the Working for Families tax credits will give almost 60 percent of New Zealand families that sort of buffer to help receive that and also to focus on other things and that will definitely support the whānau. I also look at how we're playing catch-up with how National froze in 2010 indexing the income threshold. So I'm very pleased that that has gone up as well to give that wage growth to over 10000 additional children estimated to receive that support.I just want to highlight some of the other measures that this Government has invested in in terms of the Budget in providing for our health and social services providers for the work that they do on the ground. But before I do that I just want to thank my medical colleagues whom I met last week who provide GP services across Tāmaki-makau-rau in terms of our Pacific peer group who are also connected to the Pacific network across Aotearoa in providing COVID-19 support and also post-COVID the work that they're doing and the lessons that they've learnt through that space. I just want to say a huge fa'afetai lava to those workers on the ground. As the chair of the caucus committee for health social services and wellbeing we travelled to Whangārei last week and met up with four providers supporting our whānau on the ground. I just want to say a huge acknowledgment to the local MP Emily Henderson for her connections and relationships with those providers in doing the work for our whānau.We met up with Tokotoko Solutions and I just want to say a shout-out to our Tokelauan brother Isopo Samu who's now a new Tupu Aotearoa provider. I also acknowledge Minister Aupito William Sio and the work of the Ministry for Pacific Peoples for doing that connection with Tokotoko and the work that they do with our youth and the way that they do it in the context in Northland. I'm so proud that they're doing that work and also learning and getting the feedback in the way that we can improve our services on this end. Whangarei Youth Space was another provider and I just want to say a huge thankyou to Dauwie Morgan and their team. They provide that youth one-stop shop and with the money that has gone in from this Government to support that kaupapa 3000 young people a year go through those doors and 81 percent of rangatahi are Māori. I want to acknowledge the huge work that they do on behalf of their whānau.Ngāti Hine Health Trust and the mātuas that we met last week and the services and facilities that we witnessed it was a huge privilege for us—beautiful facilities and also the work they do with our whānau there. Being the largest Māori provider for Northland is huge and I just want to say a huge thankyou to them again looking at where we placed the money and budget through to our providers and then the feedback loop and how we can improve our services as well. Our last provider that we met up with in Whangārei was Fale Pasifika and again I acknowledge Johnny Kumitau and his team for providing services to our Pasifika aiga up in Northland and Te Tai Tokerau. The people that they see who come from the Islands may have language barriers and the way that they connect with those aiga is huge for them as well. They also engage with youth using the science technology engineering and maths funding from this Government and I'd like to say that what we heard and the feedback we got from them was that it's working and it's providing a way that they can go into training education and further employment just with that engagement with our Pasifika aiga up there. I look at our Takanini community and the measures that this Government have put in place. We've already heard from colleagues about the short-term cost of living payments that have helped many of our whānau the winter energy payment as well also the fuel tax cut and also the half-price public transport for our community services card holders. These are all the different measures that this Government has put in place to help our whānau and I'm especially pleased because it gets to help our whānau in Takanini who are doing it tough in certain parts of our electorate. So I'm so thankful this Government is a Government for service and delivery while the other side is only delivering tax cuts for the wealthy. Thank you Mr Speaker.