Upston Louise; Rurawhe AdrianHon LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō): Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and congratulations to yourself and the presiding officers for the new Ministers who've taken on portfolios including the Minister who's just resumed her seat—and to the many New Zealanders who've joined us in this wonderful House of Parliament. It is a responsibility and we have a proud tradition of serving our communities.One of the things I want to touch on as others have mentioned is it's the first time in New Zealand's history we have a majority Government under MMP. I see that brings with it not just responsibility but obligation a clear obligation to deliver results for New Zealand. And I want to talk about a couple of those areas because in the Speech from the Throne this year actually it was quite similar three years ago and you know almost felt a bit like Groundhog Day listening to the Speech from the Throne. But what's talked about in this year's one is jobs and a focus on jobs. I think it's really important when we talk about jobs that there's been nothing said about where those jobs are how many jobs they are what those jobs are and when they'll be created. So as a majority Government with an obligation to New Zealanders I'm expecting to see—and I will hold the Minister accountable for delivering that plan that detail and those results. As we know spending money is easy really easy especially when it's other people's money. Getting results is much tougher and now more than ever those jobs are needed. We've seen an increase in the number of people on jobseeker benefits—65000. Actually half of that was pre-COVID so we can't have a Government that continues to blame everything on COVID. Yes it's been a particularly challenging time but guess what? New Zealand was facing challenging times and the Government was failing to get results pre-COVID. So now we have a majority Labour Government there is an obligation to deliver on jobs. There is an obligation to deliver on housing. There is an obligation to deliver on child poverty. I'm proud to be a member of a constructive Opposition who supported the then Government in getting climate change legislation through and improving the child poverty legislation but we must always talk about results. I was quite staggered today asking the Associate Minister of Housing about the social housing wait list—241 days someone is waiting on the social housing register. That is eight months—eight months! And not only that if we want to talk about results the figure has gone up fourfold in the last three years and the bulk of that was before COVID. So for those who are watching this debate listening to this debate just remember that the statistics were going in the wrong direction pre-COVID. And so as a constructive Opposition we will focus on the issues that matter. If you look at child poverty for example we talk about material hardship because those are the children who live in the worst conditions. And yes we talk about jobs because you are far more likely as a child to be living in material hardship if you are in a benefit-dependent home. If you want to talk about lifting incomes you're earning three times as much in the minimum wage job as you are on the jobseeker benefit. So the focus in terms of lifting children out of poverty has to be and must be about getting one of their parents into work. That's what this side of the House is going to focus on when we talk about results when we talk about jobs when we talk about child poverty and when we talk about unacceptable levels of the number of people waiting for housing under this Government because anyone can talk and make big pronouncements and big statements but there is absolutely zero excuse and zero tolerance for a Government that doesn't deliver results when that Government has a majority. So if you look for example at children living in material hardship the Prime Minister had said she would be reducing the number by 30000 by 2021. It actually went up 11000 going in the opposite direction. And I know for those bright shiny new MPs you'll want to know you made a difference in your community. So it's about getting results.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call the Hon Todd McClay—five minutes.