Genter Julie Anne; Kuriger BarbaraHon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Green—Rongotai): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. I am really pleased to be able to make a contribution in this debate and I definitely recommend the report to anyone watching it at home because it's full of useful information even though it is possibly a bit wonky. But there's a couple of big insights and takeaways and I absolutely agree with the previous speaker the Hon Dr Megan Woods about the importance of this House having a long-term approach where we talk about long-term issues that are facing New Zealand because I'm sure that the people who have elected us to represent them in this House of Representatives really do want us to deal with more than just the current day-to-day issues. But the long-term issues are going to affect us all and it's very easy to get caught up in an electoral cycle where it's easy to kick the can down the road when it comes to dealing with long-term challenges.My big takeaways from this report are very much about how both the COVID response and other policy settings have led to more wealth and income inequality that certain people have suffered more as a result of some of the policy choices and we can make different choices as a House of Representatives to ensure that we do have a fair and equal society. Page 8 for example talks about how some of the people who were most impacted by the pandemic-related labour market disruption are young people Māori Pasifika peoples and women and that has exacerbated pre-existing inequities in the labour market—outcomes which we need to actively address if we want to have true equality of opportunity.There's a growing body of evidence—and this is here on page 9—that recessions are exacerbated by inequality that already exists in society. So having a more equal society by ensuring that our policy settings are fair is actually better for us in the long term economically and I know that hasn't been the economic dogma of the last few decades that has dominated the political discourse—particularly coming from the right—but it is becoming increasingly clear that if you don't have a mechanism for making things fair wealth becomes concentrated. Labour markets are not pure and perfect transparency and there is existing inequality that they can exacerbate if we don't actively work to change that and remove the barriers. So I think that's really useful.There's a very interesting graph that talks about how most of the housing wealth and the age kind of concentration of housing wealth has radically changed over the last few decades. Of course that is somewhat down to policies—public policy that could change—which means that now a certain group of people are much more likely to hold a lot of wealth because they bought houses at a certain time and we've had house prices increase significantly and that's locked younger people out of the housing market which puts them at a disadvantage. Of course I would argue that that disadvantage will be exacerbated by this Government's current policies which are really oriented towards those who already own property and are transferring wealth back to those who already own the most rather than helping others have access to—whether that is just secure more dry affordable rentals or whether it is buying their own home. So that is really useful information. I'm trying to find the page that graph is on but I think I've lost it But hopefully I'll find it.Before I get to climate I just wanted to mention one other really important graph in here which I think is really useful for understanding Aotearoa New Zealand in the context of the OECD. That is about the discussion about tax revenue and tax as a share of GDP in OECD countries. This is on page 69—[Holds up graph]—nice!—and here it is: Figure 34: Tax as a share of GDP in OECD countries" and New Zealand is really low on that list. So while there's a kind of mythology and kind of easy lines that we sometimes hear from some people that you can't tax your way to prosperity most of the countries that have higher incomes per capita than New Zealand also have higher tax shares of GDP. So maybe we can learn from that. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just before I call Cameron Luxton there's a lot of chatter in the House and I'd like to be able to hear the people that are speaking."