Doocey Matt: Estimates Debate — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDoocey Matt: Estimates Debate — In Committee[Sitting date: 13 August 2015. Volume:707;Page:5807. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Earlier in this estimates debate the Labour member Poto Williams made a comment and a statement and asked a question: “How do people in Canterbury feel about that?”. Well I can tell you how they feel about that. This National Government won the party vote in every electorate in Christchurch and every electorate in Canterbury. The reason was that they believed in us and they trusted us. The first chance we have had to repay them for that trust and that belief is this Budget 2015 the Budget that is working for New Zealand. Budget 2015 is working for Canterbury. Budget 2015 is working for my electorate of Waimakariri.The member Phil Twyford spoke about Housing New Zealand. Well she needs to get out of her office and go and talk to Housing New Zealand. I went to Housing New Zealand to listen to its update on rebuilding and repairing 5000 houses and 700 homes. There was no Opposition member of Parliament at that event. They had not even bothered to turn up. I have listened to the appropriations around social housing and I have met with those at Housing New Zealand. It is great to hear that in “Waimak” we will end up with more Housing New Zealand houses post-earthquake than we had pre-earthquake.In this debate on Vote Building and Housing and Vote Social Development we heard from Darroch Ball. Unfortunately for him and New Zealand First he could not talk about social housing. The reason was that New Zealand First voted down the social housing reforms and those social housing appropriations that will give an extra 3500 New Zealanders access to social housing. Those social housing appropriations and social housing reform will give extra wraparound services to vulnerable Kiwis giving them support around mental health giving them support about alcohol and drugs and giving them support in education training and employment. That is why he could not talk about the social housing appropriation. Also New Zealand First could not talk about the appropriation for children in hardship because it voted down that as well—a package that will give Working for Families an extra $12 a week through that appropriation. It is an appropriation that will give beneficiary families up to $25 a week. New Zealand First members voted that down. They are not putting New Zealand first; they are putting themselves first. Can I congratulate this Government on its appropriations and targeted investment because what we know through allocative efficiency is that if we put money in we can get better results out.I would like to take some time to talk about our youth services. What we know around that social investment approach is that if we put $1 in we will get $2.53 out through reduced future liability. That is what this Budget is about. We know that Vote Social Development 2015 is one of the biggest expenditures in this vote at about 25 percent at about $25 billion. It is right that this Government is taking a social investment approach. We know that with the Youth Service we are putting $1 in and getting $2.53 out. This is a group of vulnerable New Zealanders: 38 percent of them are victims of domestic violence 76 percent of them have been victims of emotional neglect and 5 percent of them have been homeless and victims of sexual abuse. So it is right with this appropriation that we are investing in services that are making a difference in New Zealanders’ lives. That is what this Government is doing. We are listening to New Zealanders. We are working hard for them. We are the party for the working people. If we look at youth services we know through research that 86.5 percent of participants are engaged in education training and employment. When we are talking about Vote Social Development 2015 the reason we can invest $25 billion is that we have a got a strong economy we have got strong economic management—