Tinetti JanJAN TINETTI (Labour): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I'm absolutely delighted to take a call in this Budget debate. I am so proud of this Government's Wellbeing Budget. Last week when I too Dr Webb was out talking to people around this Budget I heard so many fantastic things people coming up to me from all walks of life saying Well done." People saying "This is fantastic you are putting people back at the centre." They were saying to us as a Government that we are dealing with long-term issues: those around mental health those issues around family violence and those issues around child poverty. Those are the issues that matter to the people out there and they told us that last week.But the one area that I really am most proud of in this Budget is the work that we are doing to improve child wellbeing. That is so important to the future of this country if we can make this country a fantastic place to be a child. When I was growing up it was a wonderful upbringing. We were proud in this country that we felt this country was the best place to be a child in the world. We would spout that and we would talk about that often. There weren't many instances when I was growing up of seeing people in severe poverty.But unfortunately that has changed over the years. Unfortunately now we see far far too many children who are living in terrible terrible poverty. Just recently I went through and saw—and remember that I was a principal of a decile 1 school—just about four months ago some of the worst poverty that I have ever seen. It was poverty where children were living next door to each other in parked up cars poverty where there were just shacks in fact poverty where children were really struggling to even attend school. Last week I went back to that same area and I saw hope in the eyes of those whānau and hope in the eyes of those children.In fact the particular school that those young children go to there's about 50 whānau 50 families in this particular area. The particular school where they go to was telling me that they don't get donations in or very few; about a thousand dollars of donations. But the families always feel very sad that they can't pay those donations. They feel guilty. They try really hard to pay. After this Budget—it's a decile 4 school—that particular school will be getting not the $1000 they're getting in now they will be getting $85000 towards supporting those children from those families and supporting those children from poverty. But the families won't have to feel that guilt and shame any longer. And those families said to me that that made a big difference.The other area that those parents said to me last week that was making a big difference to them and their children was getting rid of the NCEA fees. They've always felt guilty about the fact that they couldn't pay those fees for their children and the NCEA those children or young people were not getting that qualification because they simply couldn't afford to pay it. From this Budget that is not a problem any longer. Those young people will be getting that qualification and those families will not feel the guilt or the shame about not being able to pay them.One of the other areas is that we have put in—and I've heard my colleague speak about that here before—the increase of funding for early childhood education services 1.8 percent that is going in to help those. This is the second time—last year and this year—that we have had an increase in that early childhood services funding the first time in the last decade. So two years in a row this Government has been able to put money into early childhood.I was talking to the head of our local kindergarten service in Tauranga just over the weekend and to me he said that increase was great and will help the sector maintain their service. That is a big thing for those people. It might not sound a lot but it will help maintain those services. And he is looking forward to the future work that we are going to be doing in that area of early childhood. He said to me "This is the first time that I have felt hope for the sector in a long time." I am proud of this Budget. I am proud of what it's doing for children and I'm especially proud of what it's doing for education."