Russell DeborahDr DEBORAH RUSSELL (Labour—New Lynn): If there is a shambles in the beltway I say that it is on that side of the House which could only be characterised as an evidence-free zone" where if they don't know something they just pluck a number out of the air and use it. So I think that it's time to set the record straight with some evidence as to what is being done on this side of the House to make this country better for all New Zealanders. I have some real numbers.Let's start with this number: 2206—2206—new State houses that have been built in the two years that we have been in Government. That's 1103 a year. And how does that compare to what was done when that other party was in Government? In the nine years that party was in Government they built 338 State houses—338 State houses. That's 37.5 State houses a year. In fact let's put it in perspective: we are building 122 times as many State houses as they ever did when they were in Government. That's the attention to the real needs of New Zealanders. That's the evidence of a Government that is working hard for all New Zealanders.That's not the only thing we have done in the housing space. We have banned offshore speculators. We have extended the brightline test to five years. We've gotten rid of unfair letting fees. We've gotten rid of the tax breaks around rental properties. And what effect has that had? Well it's working. House prices are now stable. They are rising for the first time in many many years. They are rising slower than rent. We are starting to make sure that housing is affordable. That's the evidence of a Government that is taking action.It's not the only space where we are taking action. We are taking action on mental health. We've set up the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. They got rid of the Mental Health Commissioner in 2012; we have replaced it. We've established a suicide prevention office. We've put in place a mental health care package that ensures that 170000 New Zealanders will be able to access mental health care at their doctor.Moving on from mental health let's try education. We have at last—at long last—established that New Zealand history will be taught in all schools. We are putting more operating money into the schools and we are doing that through a policy that ensures that parents no longer have to dip into their own pockets to support schools because we are funding schools' properties. That's what our donations policy does. We've gotten teachers wages up. We've got new classrooms for 100000 children. We are establishing 600 positions for SENCOs—special educational needs coordinators—to ensure that children who have special learning needs get supported. We are developing prototypes for getting free lunches into all schools starting in 30 schools next year and developing the prototypes and in time we'll be rolling it out. That's the kind of action on this side of the House.When it comes to child poverty we have established legislation that ensures that we will measure and report on child poverty—legislation that was agreed to by 119 members of this House. We have actually supported families in need by ensuring that we increase their incomes by increasing the money they get. We've done that through our Families Package so that 384000 families with children are better off. We've established the winter energy payment. The list goes on and on. And this comes to us because of the inspirational leadership of our Prime Minister.We have heard so much criticism of our Prime Minister telling people that she achieves nothing—that the Christchurch Call is just so much hot air. But the Christchurch Call has taken effect. We have seen that today: when Facebook itself is taking moves to ban violent extremism. And here's what Facebook itself said as to why it was doing this. It said "To honour the Christchurch Call To Action made by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern we have announced restrictions on Facebook Live and the investment of $7.5 million in new research partnerships … designed to improve image and video analysis technology." They are supporting the call. Why that call? Because they want to ban online extremism and they are doing it because our Prime Minister our inspirational leader stood up on the world stage and had the courage to make that call.This is a Government that is taking real action and is achieving right across the board. We are delivering for New Zealanders and we are delivering for the world. I am so proud to be part of this Government."