Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. Firstly I'd like to give a big talofa lava to all of our Samoan community for Samoa Language Week especially my Samoan brothers and sisters over there from me their Cook Island cousin in the Green Party. This year's theme for Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa / Samoa Language Week 2021 is Poupou le lotoifale ola manuia le anofale." which means "Strengthen the posts of your house for all to thrive." That sounds like a Budget announcement to me! I like that whakataukī because it is like when you are building a foundation for a fale it can't have a weak foundation or post because it will just fall over. I would also like to acknowledge that it was Samoan Independence Day actually yesterday and acknowledge the connection and history and the importance of the Mau movement to Samoa and also to us here in Aotearoa New Zealand. I also do hope that the political situation in Samoa comes to a conclusion which is in line with the aspirations of the democratic institutions of Samoa as well.I don't pick sides—I don't pick sides at all—but wasn't Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson great in the latest version of The Fast and the Furious? Talking about going faster the Greens do like the direction of travel of this Budget but like with all things Green we would like it to go faster and furtherer—is that even English? Maybe. So it was good to see the wellbeing investment into our Pasifika communities. We welcome the $108 million boost for Pasifika-led initiatives giving Pasifika people more revenue to gain employment training and education that will boost the livelihoods of our families—that is a great thing. Pasifika whānau come to Aotearoa for better education and employment which is supported through this Budget. So it is good to see that on top of the commitment to Pasifika housing earlier this year.However there are some things that I did hope to see in this Budget and perhaps they are hidden in the back balance sheets of the Budget somewhere where my seventh-form calculus was unable to interpret in the Budget book. I wanted to see something signalled in this Government's Budget that was about giving an apology for the Dawn Raids—perhaps that is going to happen and perhaps that corner of the House will surprise me pleasantly. For me this apology is long overdue. The dawn raids are a shameful stain on New Zealand history defined by racial tension and unrest as police and immigration authorities victimised Pacific Islanders who they suspected of abusing the terms of their visas. I also wanted to acknowledge the legacy of the Polynesian Panthers and the role they played in standing up for the rights of Pasifika communities particularly in the 1970s. They organised against the dawn raids. Any apology that does happen needs to be meaningful and that means also ensuring that that history is remembered and taught in our schools. So if it is somewhere in the back balance sheets of the Budget perhaps it is in the curriculum review—and I hope so.The thing is that in order to ensure that we have learnt from our history we also need to send signals that we won't repeat the mistakes of the past. I'd like to acknowledge the leadership of the Pacific Leadership Forum who I managed to connect with just after the first lockdown and the concerns they had about providing pathways to residencies and an amnesty for overstayers.In this Budget I would have liked to have seen a greater emphasis on emergency benefits so that Pasifika migrants could be connected and delivered more effectively without them having to show they have a return ticket. I have concerns about Pasifika migrants being exploited and also understanding that many of these workers are essential workers. They are the people that got us through the COVID crisis; they are the people that continue to get us through this COVID crisis.I would like to end by recognising that we are just starting into Matariki and I know that we began our Matariki season today on top of Tangi-te-keo and I know that in the same way that we can see Matariki from our hills in Aotearoa they can see them throughout the Pacific. It is a reminder that Aotearoa and the Pacific are deeply deeply connected and the need for us to embed ecological sustainability in the curriculum review which I hope will begin to talk about our Pacific histories including the history of connections between Māori and Pasefika communities but also more recent history around the dawn raids and about our connections and our responsibilities as people from Aotearoa and the Pacific. Fa'afetai tele lava."