White Helen; Salesa JennyHELEN WHITE (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. First of all I just want to reach out to all the people who have been affected in the last month and really traumatised by what's happened. It's been such a huge month for Aucklanders and it's been such a huge month for parts of New Zealand that have suffered from cyclones. My own experience of the floods was that I had the arrival of three of my family who had been flooded out in an apartment down in Freemans Bay and when I woke up the next morning—I live on a park called Gribblehirst Park; it's a 10-acre park—6 to 8 acres of that had turned into a lake. It was something that I never thought I'd see. A hundred years ago that park was a swamp. It was a wetland and it runs off for the whole area and I'd just never thought I'd see it. It was one of those things where you actually can't quite believe what you're seeing and the impacts for other people in that community were so much worse than my experience.Later that week I went out with Ginny Andersen and we went to see some of the businesses that were affected by those floods and I loved the way that she listened to those businesses. There's a woman called Chand who works at Cassia—one of the most creative and interesting businesses in the city—she runs with her husband some very fine dining restaurants and they're beautiful restaurants. But it was right under the water line in Auckland Central and it had filled with water. It was an absolute death trap from what I could see because it was full of electricity. Chand was struggling with her landlord over the requirements in that situation and Ginny listened to her and to other people. I'd just like to shout out to Marisa Bidois at the Restaurant Association who was helping her with that. People were really gathering around. What happened in that week was devastating to one business in my area a place that's called Sal Rose and it was a little restaurant that I used to take my kids to when they were growing up. It's been there for ever and it was totally flooded out. It won't start business again for about eight or nine months. So that's the kind of impact that it's had on businesses and what was lovely to see was again Ginny actually doing the work of listening to that community.Then there was a support package so there is money for those businesses and some of the lessons have actually been learnt out of COVID. They have been learnt out of one crisis and brought into another. So what we're dealing with is a Government that has experience in what is necessary on the ground. This isn't the same as COVID. This is very different in some ways because actually the impact is very uneven across New Zealand. But I have so much confidence of the capacity of the Ministers in this Government to listen to people to connect with people and to actually reach out and place the resources where they're most needed and that was my example of that.I just want to have a shout out to Great Barrier Island which really suffered badly in the cyclone that followed. Great Barrier Island is a place where petrol costs lots of money and we really need to remember that that petrol is now being used for generators and that's the kind of local knowledge that I hope is connecting in so that they will get the resources that they need. I'm confident that they will—there's a lot of good people helping them. I'd like to shout out to the man that I heard about in Dryden Street who actually rescued his neighbours by kayak. He was in the next house as I understand it and the house below had a top storey. The children in the family went up to the top storey. They had to smash the window and let him in. So this is a Government that deals with crises; this is a Government that's confident about crises. This is a Government that's listening to people in need and this is a Government that will step out and reach into those communities and do the job that needs doing in this time. I am very confident of that. It was just wonderful to have that experience of being with Ginny at that time and going round those businesses and seeing what was going on and thinking about all that fresh blood that's coming in with our reshuffle dealing with those issues in such a constructive way and I will help this Government and continue to help this Government do that job in my own community. Thank you. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The next call is a split call. I call the Hon Julie Anne Genter—five minutes.