Davis KelvinHon KELVIN DAVIS (Minister of Tourism): Thank you Mr Speaker. I remember those days too. My colleagues a few of them here they'll remember those cold dark dismal days sitting on that side of the House where the sun never shines where the only opportunity to perhaps generate a bit of light and a bit of heat is to stand up and give a depressing nasty speech to criticise the Government. We've all been there and long may it last for those people over there. Now the Hon Todd McClay stood up—he's the spokesperson for tourism. Again another cold sad miserable tale of woe from him. The reality is one of the great things about being in Government is you have the opportunity to do good stuff and you also have the opportunity to change the mess that was created by the regime that came in before you. Tourism is a classic example of where the country is lucky that we had a change of Government in 2017.Now let me tell you the previous Government did quite a good job of destination marketing. Sadly where they failed the country abysmally was in destination management. The numbers of visitors coming to New Zealand increased significantly in the last five years which is good—good for visitors coming over here and it should be good for New Zealand as well. Sadly though in too many communities the growth in visitor numbers has actually had a negative impact. It's because the previous Government failed to manage New Zealand as a destination and what that did was that jeopardised our biggest export earner. Now 216000 New Zealanders are directly employed in tourism and close to 170000 are indirectly employed by tourism. But what the previous regime did was jeopardise that and threaten that. We were in danger of losing our social licence as a tourism destination but we've come and ridden in and saved the day. They should just say thank you. It wouldn't be hard. What have we done in tourism? Well the work done by the Responsible Camping Working Group last year has eliminated by at least half I'd say by 80 percent the complaints from communities around responsible camping. Now it's not perfect we know that. We've still got work to do but we have reduced the number of complaints about responsible camping. Then we introduced the tourism strategy. The previous one was about 10 years old. It was out of date and there was no sign on the horizon that the previous Government was going to do anything about it because the world of tourism has changed in the last 10 years. So they did nothing; they just floated and drifted. What else have we done? We've introduced the international visitor and conservation levy. Some $450 million is going to go towards tourism and conservation over the next five years. The only people in the country who oppose it are the ones sitting over in the dark and the cold in the shade of Opposition. What they could do is stand up and promise the country that they will repeal the international visitor levy. I can't wait to hear the Hon Todd McClay stand up and announce that they're going to repeal that visitor levy. I can't wait to hear the reaction from the tourism sector when he makes that announcement. I can't wait to hear what Sandra Goudie the Mayor of Thames-Coromandel is going to say. I was there in the Coromandel a couple of weeks back talking at the bed and breakfast conference. She was singing the praises of the Government. I can't wait to hear what she's going to say to her former colleague when he announces that they're going to repeal the visitor levy. I can't wait to hear what John Carter the Mayor of the Far North District Council is going to say when Todd McClay rings and says that they're going to repeal the international visitor levy. I can't wait to hear what Jim Boult the Mayor of Queenstown is going to say when the National Party promise to repeal the international visitor levy. I bet you this will be the first reaction: ring ring Hello it's Todd McClay here." There'll be a deadly silence then people will say "Who?" They will have forgotten because the man has been invisible when it comes to the tourism sector. The Government and industry—mainly led by industry—have developed the tiaki promise which sets out the values that New Zealanders hold dear. It's an education package for visitors here. The China-New Zealand Year of Tourism—that's kicked off. The Terracotta Warriors—we anticipated some 100000 visitors to visit that in the course of the few months that it was there; there were close to 200000 double the numbers. This Government has done a lot and we've also saved the whole tourism sector and all those jobs because of the work that we've been doing. But let me just congratulate the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance for the wonderful Wellbeing Budget that we've announced in the last few weeks. I also just want to acknowledge the Hon Chris Hipkins. Now I turn to school donations. I was a principal of a decile three school in Kaitāia. Every year we had fundraising. At our major fundraising event we would raise $9000 and man were we proud of ourselves—$9000 is a big community effort. We thought it was fantastic; we barely got a dollar when it came to school donations. Now that school if it had the same roll—I don't know what the roll numbers are at the moment—as when I was there it would have received $45000 from the Government. What's that—five times the amount that we got in our biggest fundraising effort? So I'd just like to thank the Minister of Education for that generosity. It's making a big difference in those schools that have trouble raising money.Mental health—if there are two words that the country remembers from this Budget they are "mental health". Chlöe Swarbrick mentioned the work that we're doing in prisons: $128.3 million is going towards helping those people in prisons with mental health issues. I'll rattle through a number of things that we're doing: 2310 additional offenders with mild to moderate mental health needs will receive help from this Budget.Now people say "Well why worry if they've only got mild or moderate mental health needs?" Well the thing is that we don't want those mild or moderate mental health needs to become severe and acute mental health needs. So we're addressing that. That's going to take the total number of people who are receiving help for mild or moderate mental health needs to over 5000 in prisons. We know that there are around about 10000 people in our prisons at the moment so we know that we've got more work to do to support those people.Eight hundred offenders will receive expanded social worker and trauma counselling. Why is that important? Well one thing we know is we come down hard on people who are in prison because they're there and they've committed crime but the thing is that we always forget that just about all of them are victims of crime themselves—91 percent of people in prisons have a mental health or a substance abuse issue—and we must help them. So that's why they're going to get trauma counselling and expanded social worker support.Two hundred and seventy-five whānau are going to receive mental health support outside in the community. So these are the whānau of people inside prison. Because we realise and we recognise that if people are in prison—and they probably have a mental health issue—the chances are that their whānau will also have mental health issues. So we're going to support them.Thirty places will be made available in the community for people with intensive mental health issues. That's because we know that when people leave prison—that in itself is quite traumatic—we need to support them so that they can reintegrate back into the community as best they can.We're going to make sure that alcohol and drug services are expanded into four more prisons. That will take the number of prisons with alcohol and drug services to 15 out of our 18 prisons. It just seems ridiculous that we actually have prisons that don't have alcohol and drug counselling services in them.The $98 million Māori Pathway—now this came about because I went into a prison. There was a Māori-focused unit and the prisoners were telling me they loved the Māori unit. They got to connect with their language their culture—all those sorts of things that many of them hadn't had an opportunity to connect with before. They said "Oh but there's only one problem." And I said "What's that?" They said "It goes for 13 weeks." It was a lightbulb moment for me. What we do for those people who have got these sentences is that after 13 weeks they go back into the general population and we're saying to them "You can only be Māori for 13 weeks of your three- or four- or five-year sentence." That's why we're saying that from the time somebody enters prison—a Māori or even a non-Māori—to the time they leave they can participate in this Māori Pathway which will help them hopefully to not reoffend and not end up back in prison when their time is done there. Kia ora."