Luxton JoHon JO LUXTON (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well this is a shameful Budget—a shameful Budget full of broken promises and bad choices. Many of my colleagues on this side of the House have talked about the fact that Budgets are made up of choices and this Government has chosen some very bad choices.They talk a big game about the fact that at the election New Zealand voters voted for change. I don't think they realised what they voted for is quite what they were going to get but thankfully I think Kiwis out there are beginning to see exactly what this Government stands for which is not much. I would not be surprised if this ends up being a one-term Government.Prior to the election we heard from the Prime Minister that they were going to have a laser-sharp focus on the cost of living. Well I'm sorry but all we seem to hear about is a laser-sharp focus on roads road cones and potholes—not particularly aspirational in my view.If this was a Government that had a laser-sharp focus on the cost of living they would not have brought back 90-day trials they would not have got rid of fair pay agreements and they would not force thousands of people to lose their jobs—absolutely irresponsible and heartless from this Government.We had a member earlier from the Government talking about radically improving access to housing. Well how can that possibly be the case when we are seeing Kāinga Ora housing projects right across the country being paused and put on hold? One in particular that I would like to highlight is the one in Timaru where it was announced under the previous Government and it was going to be the largest public housing build in South Canterbury for many years. It would have provided 40 social houses and these houses would have been made available to people in the community to move into in 2025.There are 141 people on the social housing wait-list up from 105 in 2021. Those people sadly will not have access to housing and I do not understand how members opposite can stand there and say that they are focusing on radically improving access to housing.I want to talk about the broken promise the broken promise on the campaign trail from that side of the House that families were going to be getting an extra $250 a week. Great news—families thought this was great news. But actually in reality this is only going to a very few households. They talked a big game about this $75 a week rebate in the early childhood education (ECE) space for parents. What they didn't campaign on was that parents were going to have to collect receipts for it then they were going to have to lodge it with IRD—it was going to be a big process. I'm sorry but we all know sometimes Government agencies aren't the best to deal with and aren't always the most efficient. I don't even think that they actually spoke to ECE centres and how they were going to make this work so it's a big long admin process for families and I think many families will just give up and not bother. I think that's a real shame that they didn't continue on with the 20 free hours' care for two-year-olds as the previous Labour Government had committed to.I also want to touch on the fact that they have removed the free prescriptions. The removal of free prescriptions means that anyone would be able to get their prescription at no cost thereby keeping people out of hospital. They also talk a big game about wanting to support small businesses. Well I can tell you the local chemist that I've spoken to in Ashburton has expressed real concerns about the removal of the free prescriptions because that has been something that ensured that people would come and pick up their prescriptions. What this will do is simply benefit the likes of Chemist Warehouse. This is a shameful Budget with no focus on the—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): The member's time has expired.