Williams PotoHon POTO WILLIAMS (Minister of Police): Thank you Madam Speaker. Can I say Manuia le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa. I hope I got that OK? Welcome to Samoan Language Week.There are a couple of things I want to address in my contribution today and that is how we do things slightly differently. And the first thing I want to talk about is our wellbeing Budget—this is the fourth wellbeing Budget that our fantastic finance Minister the Hon Grant Robertson has delivered. And that's really important because wellbeing is about putting our people first. As a proud member of the Pacific caucus—you've heard some of my colleagues talk in the House already today—there is another aspect of this that is really significant for us because one of the wellbeings in the wellbeing Budget is the aspirations for Māori and Pacific. As a caucus in our planning and in the work that we do we have made sure that our aspirations are reflected in this Budget but also in all the planning that we do. So the documents that we prepare all line up and it is a consistency and a coherence across our finance system that recognises who we are and the importance of what we do and how we do it.I just want to touch on a couple of the aspects of that. My colleagues have spoken about this but I think it's really important because some of the smaller aspects of the Budget are the things that are really important to many. Some of the things like the increase in dental grants from $300 to $1000 a year; for some of us that's huge. Some of our whānau will find that really huge. The investment in 300 homes in Porirua which means that Pacific people are not denied; they are supported into home ownership. And we know just how important that is to build your financial base. Things like 38000 more apprentices on top of the 190000 apprentices we've supported since we've come to Government. For me one of the things that I think is most important to us as Pasifika—it's not only the acknowledgment of the Dawn Raids not only the apology of the Dawn Raids but now what we will do about ensuring that our histories are recorded and our voice lives on in perpetuity about the issue of the Dawn Raids. We are not hiding from what has happened to us in the past; we are acknowledging and we are able to record our stories which some may not think is really important but for Māori and Pacific—and for many cultures—whakapapa the recording of history and what you learn from that is hugely important. And as the Minister of Police I'm part of a group of justice Ministers—and this is the second big way that we do things differently—and as a group of justice Ministers we got together and collectively decided what was important in this Budget. And I have to say for me as Minister of Police I was so proud to be supported by my colleagues who said at this time we know that the issues that trouble our communities are about community safety so we must invest in our police to ensure they have the resources and the tools to do the work that they need to do. I'm extraordinarily proud of the work that we have done and the Budget that we've put to this but this is upon a previous record Budget that was delivered by the previous Minister of Police so altogether we have invested nearly a billion dollars extra in our police since we came to Government and that's really important because we have to make sure we've got enough police on the ground to do this mahi—and we are ensuring we do that through a population ratio where will never get beyond one police officer to every 480 Kiwis. That's our commitment: that we will make sure there are sufficient staff on the ground. We've made a huge commitment to the front-line safety of our officers to make sure that they're trained appropriately to make sure that they have the intelligence and the tools that they need. But one of the most important aspects is the firearms register—30 years we have not known where firearms are located in our community. Now some of the Opposition may see this as a list or something quite frivolous but of the 1.5 million firearms in our community there are some that we just don't know where they reside. Of the 240000 folk who have licences we can say there are about six each but this—the firearms registry—will be the most important thing we do for safety in our community.