Young JonathanJONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth): Thank you very much Mr Assistant Speaker for the opportunity to speak. Can I not only congratulate Jacinda Ardern but also acknowledge Andrew Little who for the last two campaigns contested very strongly against me. I have noticed very few comments about him from the other side and I think that is not a good thing.If I was a gullible New Zealander listening to the relentless negativity coming from the Opposition benches I would nearly think Statistics New Zealand was on its own brand of happy pills because a week ago it said that most New Zealanders say they are highly comfortable with their lives. These are the people who are statisticians gatherers of data; they are the gurus of granular information. These are the people who sit behind computers and analyse such detail to present to us megatrends. This is what they say. Yes you can go down deeper into its report and get more precise breakdowns of the information but it said that around 83 percent of people rated their overall life satisfaction 7 or above on a 0 to 10 scale and it said the result was similar in 2014. Is that not amazing! You would not believe that if you listened to these people. All you would hear from the Opposition is doom and gloom. All you hear is heartache and heartbreak. And look we know there are people whom we need to reach out to and I believe Minister Anne Tolley attributed comments towards them and that is the purpose of Government—to lift up those who need lifting up. We desire to help and to deliver for all New Zealanders.I come from one of the most positive places in New Zealand and that is the great city of New Plymouth in the wonderful region and province of Taranaki. We make our own luck there even though we are said by the ASB regional report to be the lowest in terms of regional growth because of the drop in oil price and the drop in dairy price. Yet you go to our place and as you know Barbara Kuriger you know the vibe that is in Taranaki. There are positive people; relentlessly positive people come from Taranaki. We also have the highest GDP per capita still in that place. But if you went around the town and asked them: Do you have enough money?" probably a lot of people would say: "Well I could always do with a bit more."Statistics New Zealand said this: back in 2008 13 percent said they had more than enough money to meet their everyday needs. Today that figure has grown to 18 percent. And this is very interesting: back in 2008 15.4 percent said they did not have enough money and in 2016 that figure had shrunk to 10.9 percent. Statistics New Zealand said that generally New Zealanders think their financial well-being has improved. This is not a party political broadcast. This has not come from the Government. This has not come from National Party headquarters. This has come from Statistics New Zealand a week and a half ago. It went through its General Social Survey of 9000 participants and this is what it says about how New Zealanders fare at the moment. So after coming through a global financial crisis and the $18 billion cost of the Canterbury earthquakes New Zealanders are having a growing sense of optimism about their futures. This does not just happen. It is like turning a great ocean liner around; it takes times to turn an economy. When we became the Government in 2008 Treasury said we had before us a decade of deficits. Instead today we are the envy of the world. We are first in prosperity. We are first in ease of doing business. We are first-equal in anti-corruption. We are second in terms of quality of Government. We are even top of the international list of places to retire to. Is that not fantastic Minister Barry?Hon Maggie Barry: It is.JONATHAN YOUNG: During this period of time when we have seen incomes increase we have reached out to those on lower incomes. We have increased the accommodation supplement as part of our $2 billion families package. We lifted the incomes of beneficiaries by $25 a week last year. It was the first real increase in more than 40 years. Listen to this: New Zealand's superannuation rate for married couples has gone up 37 percent since 2008 and the single rate up by 36 percent or by $104. We are looking after New Zealand. We are delivering for all New Zealanders. Thank you."