Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Huri noa ki a tātou katoa ōku hoa kaimahi tēnā koutou. The wellbeing of our people and our environment should be at the centre of everything that we in this House do. It should be at the centre of all the decisions we make because it will ensure that our grandchildren's grandchildren have any sort of dignified and sustainable future. So I am proud to be part of a Government that is starting to take a different approach for the first time through this Wellbeing Budget an approach which the Greens have long championed and called for because right now truly transformational economic social and environmental solutions are needed more than ever. The way that we respond to the climate inequality and biodiversity crises in Aotearoa will lead the way for a world based on justice for people and our planet. So I wanted to pick up on a few of the initiatives that I'm proud of that the Greens being at the table have managed to secure including across welfare transport mental health and the environment.Also I wanted to be very clear that the Greens know that there's more we need to do that we need to be even bolder right now to meet the urgency and the scale of the challenges we face because the climate crisis poses an existential threat to our planet and way of life. The science already shows us that we only have 12 years tops to transform our economy to focus on sustainability and wellbeing rather than what we have been held hostage to forever which is profit at all costs. While our economy has grown in some measures other measures are still a raging concern. Too many people are facing housing insecurity our waterways have been degraded to the point where too many of our awa are too polluted to swim in and 4000 of our native species are facing the risk of extinction.So I'm pleased to see that the climate change and environmental and conservation work that the Greens have been able to do under the leadership of our fabulous Ministers has come through in this Budget including laying the foundations to tackle the climate crisis with a transition to a low-carbon economy and getting up the Climate Change Commission. But I also want to acknowledge many civilians societies and groups including School Strike 4 Climate and their calls for more honest and substantive Government action. So that is something that the Greens will absolutely have a strong voice on.I cannot leave out in my speech heralding the $180 million in conservation funding especially through the tourism levy and the international visitor conservation levy because our indigenous species are calling out for our protection and so safeguarding indigenous biodiversity was able to be championed through this Budget.I want to acknowledge iwi leadership and water and the funding that will help iwi in Whanganui Gisborne and in my northern Ōmāpere area improve the health of local waterways because the leadership of mātauranga Māori will be essential to enduring conservation for our whole country for all of our waterways and for our generations to come.I want to be very clear that we need more investment in public and State housing. Everyone needs a decent home to live in and we need real investment in public housing not just extraction of profit by private landlords which is what we have seen for far too long. We need to move away from housing as a commodity and understand housing as a human right for everyone. The Wellbeing Budget made significant steps to ensure the improvement and expansion of support under programmes like Housing First which essentially puts in the supports—social supports and health supports—and ensures that we can put people into homes. We're going to extend that with an extra 1044 people and places. So I was particularly pleased to see that for people with a disability and families with children who struggle with homelessness and insecure housing in particular.Beyond this Budget though the Greens will keep focusing on ensuring a rent-to-own or a progressive homeownership scheme and that's what we agreed to with Labour as part of our confidence and supply agreement. A rent-to-own scheme is just one policy that will help the very people that actually my colleague Jami-Lee Ross previously talked about—people who are not even entertaining the thought of ever owning their own home and properly putting down roots in their own community. They haven't got a chance of raising any sort of a deposit. The Green Party is very clear that we want to bring back the principle of a Government-funded scheme in partnership with other organisations to allow for more people to actually own a home. This will add to the security and sense of community relationships—schooling ensuring children can stay put for longer is what I see would fill a massive gap in the trend that we are currently seeing of less people being able to afford to raise a deposit and own their own homes. So we'll stay really strong and loud over that.Listen we've heard Ministers across the House actually rightfully praise Under-Secretary Jan Logie and her leadership on the work to eliminate sexual and domestic violence and the work to a joined-up approach across ministries and agencies to be able to for the first time ever have such a transformational approach to ending and eliminating domestic and sexual violence. I too proudly—proudly—herald the work of Jan Logie in pushing something in a way that the Hon Grant Robertson as finance Minister also upholds as being quite a revolutionary approach to working with our Budget bids. So we are particularly proud of that work.But change needs to continue and I want to finish my focus somewhat on the Whakamana Tāngata report the expert advisory report—quite a historical report that seeks to understand what needs to change in our social security support system. A range of diverse experts who were on that panel came out with a very clear blueprint for how we can actually ensure that people can seek security and income with a sense of dignity. For decades successive Governments actually have at best allowed our social support system to stagnate but at worst we've deliberately eroded it leaving families and people without enough to survive leaving people in low-paying jobs struggling to be able to survive without a good social security net.So we are very clear and it was good to see some changes come through this Budget including tagging benefit increases to wage growth including removing some of the harsh sanctions and allowing for people to earn more before their budgets are cut. But the report the expert report was very clear: we need base income amounts to increase and that is something that the Greens will be very clear on as part of our confidence and supply agreement to properly overhaul our social security support system.When we are facing entrenched inequality and poverty and unstable climate and rapid loss of species and ecosystems we know that truly transformative economic social and environmental change has never been more important. I'm proud of what our team our Green team has been able to achieve in Government but we also know that there's so much more that needs to happen right now that we can actually do right now. The Greens will be insisting on seeing more of those changes coming through in the next Budget. Thank you Mr Speaker.