Roberts AngelaANGELA ROBERTS (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'd just like to carry on a bit of a theme from this afternoon about doing a little bit of myth-busting and bring a little story of hope to the room. It's great to hear the focus on securing our recovery and vaccinations are a significant part of the plan but we also need to have a look at the challenge. There's been some suggestion the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund has gone to projects unrelated to COVID. The PM reminded us today that the fund is to help with economic recovery and create jobs. I just want to take you to a fabulous little Taranaki - King Country place called Ōtorohanga and show you how this fund this investment is helping not only with the recovery and creating jobs but helping us build back better our environment our tourism industry the development of our people and our small towns. Significant aspects of funding are Jobs for Nature funding the Strategic Tourism Assets Protection Programme apprenticeship support the Mayors Taskforce for Jobs and infrastructure funds.It isn't just the funding though. It isn't just the cash. It takes people relationships and communities to make the most of the opportunities to be ambitious and to dream. So at Ōtorohanga Kiwi House—fabulous little place been around for 50 years so many of us may have visited—they are embracing all of the opportunities. They're supporting a range of new staff. They've got two extra trainee keepers. They've got an apprentice carpenter—so a big shout-out to Hayze; he's doing some amazing work up there as they go to rebuild their Kiwi House. It isn't just support for wages for tools for getting these young people to get their driver's licences but the mentoring needed to make sure that they don't just get a job but they stay there and they become really great contributing citizens in the future.They're also providing training to Jobs for Nature workers from other projects so they're helping to lift our capacity and our capability as we rise to the challenge of improving our biodiversity and our environment. They're helping to retain people in our local communities who may have had to leave as a result of the challenges on sectors such as tourism in Taranaki - King Country. They're building the capacity of our critical conservation workforce.The Ōtorohanga Kiwi House has used the significant funding to help them with the recovery their conservation work that they do. Traditionally this has been funded through visitors to the centre so they've been able to carry on and actually grow their conservation programmes. They support seven recovery programmes including breeding North Island brown kiwi whio tuatara pāteke North Island kākā and the Mahoenui giant wētā—a fabulous beast if you ever get to meet one. Communities around the country—local communities farmers backyard volunteers who are trying to restore the biodiversity and grow our predator-free landscape—are really really grateful for the significant national contribution that the Kiwi House is able to sustain because of the support of this Government.They have also been able to take on a commitment to a significant rebuild and extension of their physical spaces because of the capital investment and support from the local district council but the country as a whole. This will ensure 190 jobs as they do the rebuild and they are going to literally build back better. These are amazing ambitious people. They have undertaken a globally ambitious project of not only rebuilding and extending the Kiwi House but to participate and be the first zoo on the planet to get their accreditation for the Living Building Challenge a truly ambitious green project. They are reimagining our tourism sector. They are building a quality visitor experience education experience and the provision of breeding and support for our biodiversity and predator-free projects around the North Island. I just need to shout out to them. They're doing amazing work. This isn't about centralisation. This is about supporting local people to be able to be nimble and effective in their responses. I think they're amazing and admirable in the way that they have been ambitious and they can see a future a bold and bright one for our people for our kiwi and for our little towns. Thank you Mr Speaker.