Rurawhe Adrian; Ngobi TerisaSPEAKER: Tēnā rā tātou katoa. The House is resumed. Members the next call is a split call from the Labour Party.TERISA NGOBI (Labour—Ōtaki): Talofa Mr Speaker. It really is a pleasure to take a call tonight in the House around Budget 2023 and that is because it's such a great Budget. We've got a lot to be proud of in this Budget. Our Prime Minister the Rt Hon Chris Hipkins said that this Budget would be focused on the cost of living and that it was. There's lots in this Budget that I want to talk about so I'm going to try and talk really quick with my five minutes.The first thing I want to talk about is the scrapping of the $5 co-payment for prescriptions. Five bucks might not be much to some but to a lot of people I hang out with and love and know $5 is heaps. Five dollars can be a milk and a bread. Growing up I used to be able to do two loaves of bread and a tin of creamed corn and then you've got toasties; you've got a dinner. So for some people—Simon Court: What with inflation it's really 7 percent.TERISA NGOBI: —$5 can do so much and so if you've got to choose between feeding your kids or picking up your prescription for five bucks you're going to feed your kids Simon Court. That's where it's at. So that's how important the scrapping of the $5 prescriptions is.What we also know—and actually I've been really lucky to be part of the Pacific caucus but also quite active in my community of the Ōtaki electorate. So up and down the community we've been talking to people around the Budget and what it means to people. People have said to me—I know Leo or we call him Grandpa Leo" at St Joseph's church in Levin; he said to me that is a big deal for him because our elderly are not only on one medication they're often on two three or four—you're getting up to 20 bucks now. That's a lot of money especially for our pensioners; our people who have worked hard; and in their retirement age they shouldn't be having to scrimp or worry about how much they've got left over to get some food. So that extra $5 or if it is a few prescriptions that extra 20 bucks in Grandpa Leo's pocket is a big deal and it's a game-changer for him. He was really appreciative; he said "Please thank 'Chippy' for me." So I did.I also know with the Pacific Budget roadshow we spoke to another elderly Tongan community leader in the Horowhenua and her name is Saane Tovo and she also said how important that would be for her. Again she's on more than one medication; she is going to be able to save some money in terms of that for her as well. That's what we mean about supporting people supporting New Zealanders through the cost of living.I also heard from James Westbury who owns Westbury Pharmacy in Waikanae in my electorate. He emailed me to tell me how grateful he was for this initiative from the Government. It is going to help his pharmacy but it also means it's going to help his community. That's why he got into being a pharmacist: he wants to be able to support his community and to support his people to keep well. If people aren't picking up their prescriptions because $5 is too much that is not him being able to support his community. So he was very grateful for this Government having the foresight and seeing that that was a need in our community.But that is not all. Not only did we have the scrapping of the $5 co-payment for prescriptions but we also got a pre-Budget train yes. So in our electorate we are really lucky—well lucky but also pre-Budget me and the beautiful Palmerston North MP Tangi Utikere worked really hard to make sure that this Government knew that a regular train from Palmerston North through Horowhenua and Kāpiti right through to Wellington would be a game-changer for our people. What it does is it makes sure that everyone has access to health education and employment. That should be the basic access for everybody; everybody should have that same equality to access.I've spoken before in the House about my nephew Rawiri Tristram who is in a wheelchair. He's a really good athlete. He does wheelchair rugby. He also is a really good swimmer. He will now be able to get on that train regularly by himself independently and take himself to university if that's what he wants to do—but take himself out of the region and come back to the beautiful Ōtaki electorate where he lives. A game-changer.There are so many more things in this Budget but actually this is what this Labour Government is about. We're about supporting people. We support people with the winter energy payment—an absolute game-changer for our elderly and I know that from working as a case manager. Free lunches in schools is also another game-changer for many. We are going to extend the free trade training and apprenticeships. This is what's at risk. We on this side of the House are the party for the people; on that side of the House they oppose those things and they want to scrap contraception access as well—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired. Naisi Chen—five minutes."