Coffey Tāmati; O'Connor GregTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. It comes to this time every year where we get up and obviously we're the Government so we talk about the good things in the Government. The Opposition sit there and say that we've done nothing and it's all going down the drain. This is very same same. And for me this is time number six. I'm starting to understand how this goes.But I've got to say I went out into the Waiariki community last week I went down to Tūrangi I went to Taupō I went to Tauranga I met up with some of our locals in Rotorua and I really canvassed some of these policies out there. And I want to say that actually first of all in acknowledgment that not everybody lives in our little political bubble so they don't all understand what's in the Budget. So you have to say it again and again and get out there and talk to communities and help them to understand. This is another opportunity for us to be able to do that. But the thing that resonated with me was a thing that has been addressed by my previous colleagues here and I wasn't expecting it to but it is that part payment on medical prescriptions.It was poignant because the conversation that I had with Leanne who owns the Life Pharmacy in Taupō CBD—I went in there just on the off chance. Hadn't set it up. Just popped in to say Hey can we have a yarn about this stuff and tell me what's going on." She referred me to the shelf of brown bags behind her. She showed me the shelf. It was a very big shelf. It went from about where I'm standing to where my colleague Tangi Utikere is standing—brown paper bags that hadn't been picked up. But not just for this month for last month and for the month before as well. And she had a whole other shelf and a couple of boxes just for large medication packages which hadn't also been picked up. What she said to me was first of all she was sad about the wastage because all of that that doesn't get picked up ends up going upstairs into the yellow bins.I said "Can I have a look at the yellow bins?" She said "Sure." She showed me these big yellow bins and they were just filled with medication that had expired—"expired" in their terms—because after three months you have to get rid of it because it's not as effective. So I went through the bins. She was quite happy to show me through the bins and I saw the wastage in those bins. And it broke my heart but it also broke the heart of her and her employees too. People who—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Did the member take a photo?TĀMATI COFFEY: Yeah I did. People that had to stand there with their pharmacist—their community pharmacist—and go through the script. And they had to pick out the most important medication to them. Some of them didn't have enough for the $40 or the $50 that it was so they had to go through the scripts with them and say "Well maybe you can afford No. 1 and No. 5 even though the doctor's prescribed you all of this medication. If all you've got is this amount of money then that's what we're going to do for you. We would suggest this and this. And what we'll do is we'll put the rest in the bag and we'll put it back here on the shelf and you can come and pick it up maybe next month maybe next week whenever you get some money." And she knew—she said to me she knew that as they walked out the door she was never going to see them again. So I relay that sad story because it's symptomatic of other stories that I've gone and heard around the country. And I heard members of the Opposition before say "Oh go to the Chemist Warehouse—go to Countdown." They can give it for you because they've managed to absorb the cost of that part-payment into their operations which is great for them. The people it does a disservice to are our community pharmacists and our community chemists who know their communities well and they know their people. They look them in the eye. They know their family situation they know that they can't afford the medication they have those personalised relationships with them that if you ask some of those community chemists they'll say "At Countdown they don't necessarily have that. At the Chemist Warehouse they don't necessarily have that bespoke personalised relationship with their chemist." And for that reason they were very proud of it. Actually some of the people that I spoke to in those chemists they weren't necessarily Labour voters but they knew that it was the right thing to do.Can I say that I was mortified just to open up my Newshub app just then and to see the leader of the National Party say that he was going to continue to make women pay for contraceptive medication that actually they were passionate—so passionate—about putting that $5 charge on that they're going to continue to charge women that are seeking medication for contraception and that seems like advice that if I was giving advice to the Leader of the Opposition to tell him how to lose an election it would be to do that.DEPUTY SPEAKER: The Hon Meka Whaitiri—five minutes."