Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Tēnā koutou katoa. I'm incredibly proud to belong a Labour team and particularly with our finance Minister in the House. Through Budget 2020 he has prioritised $50 billion—I'll say that again; $50 billion—to lead us through a response to COVID-19. And lest we forget the 22 New Zealanders who have died the 1506 New Zealanders who were infected by this deadly disease two of whom were announced today. We have zero in hospital and we have 1482 who have recovered. And through that Budget appropriation I specifically want to highlight the $500 million that we have invested in our health system. It's incredibly important to highlight that investment and obviously the leadership of Mr Bloomfield who's become a bit of a celebrity. It is Team Health" with the support of "Team Aotearoa New Zealand" the 5 million of us who ensured that we have no community transmission. Having no community transmission means that that investment actually is valuable and it's valuable in these ways. What we did is invest in testing and I can attest to the fact I was tested and within two days of having that test in Manurewa my electorate I got a text message to say that I did not have COVID-19.We also invested in treatment facilities that we would've all needed had we got it. So our intensive care capacity was bolstered. We trained our staff. We ensured we had appropriate facilities. Then there's the prevention aspect of that $500 million—in an investment in our public health units—to ensure that we're able to do contact tracing. We invested in self-isolation facilities to make sure that all those Kiwis our citizens our residents coming home were isolated for those 14 days. And we also invested in communications assistance. During this troubling time we had over 5000 calls every day and we were able to respond to them.We need to put this in a global context. So globally 7.7 million people have been infected with over 428000 deaths. But the biggest impact globally has been on us cutting our borders—closing them cutting them saying we can't let anyone home unless they're a citizen or a resident. For us closing our borders could result in a $16 billion deficit to our tourism industry. I'm not sure if many of us know but that's how much we get as a country from tourism. And it specifically has affected 180000 full-time equivalents. And so I do want to focus on our investment in our business owners.We needed to invest in our business owners the $12 billion because they employ 1.6 million New Zealanders who needed to continue to be paid. We didn't want them to be beneficiaries. Actually we wanted them to be supported by their business owners—their employers—and so we as a Government chose to do that. And I want to acknowledge our workers and particularly our essential workers who have kept I would say our home fires burning. In Māoridom we have a term called our "ahikā". They are the people that got up throughout this whole crisis—our essential workers our clinicians our social service providers our food suppliers and amongst all of that our iwi and our other community leaders our Pacific community leaders our ethnic community leaders who did so much to ensure that the trauma of this disease that was killing us—we actually mitigated those consequences. And we've got much to do. And the reality is this Budget will provide the resources I believe to initially respond. And I know my colleague the Hon Grant Robertson will talk about the recovery aspect and then the rebuilding aspect of this Budget. That's what we've done—we've created a framework for us to recover and to rebuild as 5 million people New Zealanders—Team Aotearoa New Zealand. Part of that rebuilding for me is reimagining because there are areas that will be decimated. And I guess this provides an opportunity like most disasters where we can learn from what we've done in the past and actually reimagine what the future could be. So I say to our business owners to our workers: kia kaha koutou. We've got more work to do and we can only do it if we work together. Kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call Kieran McAnulty—"