Andersen GinnyGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour): E Te Māngai he mihi mahana ki a koutou i tēnei rā tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. [Madam Speaker warm greetings to you all on this day greetings one and all.] I'd like to spend five minutes today talking about housing—housing. This Budget is delivering 8000 more public and transitional homes and I'd like to look at what's been happening in the Hutt in particular. So far this term we've built 115 houses in the Hutt—in this term. In that there are more than 260 new Kāinga Ora homes under way right now. What's also been going on in the Hutt Valley which has been really good to see is there's been this pilot programme in which all of those existing State houses that weren't ripped down are being retrofitted. What that means is they get warm dry insulation put inside them. They get new heat pumps. They get carpet. Some of them get kitchens. They get completely done up so that those families in the cold months get to turn on the heater with their winter energy payment and keep their home warm and dry for a whole lot less and that's a good thing.It's a good thing to be building on land that has lain vacant for eight years and it's a good thing that those families and their children go to sleep every night in those warm dry homes but it's even better—for the Hutt as well—that as well as that great win we also get builders electricians plumbers roofers and landscapers. They are the people that will be doing the work in the Hutt. Those are the businesses that will be turning up day in day out to make those homes warm and dry and to build on that vacant land. What's even better than that is that all of those builders electricians plumbers roofers and landscapers have got apprentices—apprentices—that will be training and learning and being able to be the next generation of tradespeople who have their own skills their independence their tino rangatiratanga and their ability to earn their own crust in the world and to go forth and be able to provide for their own families.In this Budget we saw some great stuff for apprenticeships. We saw $1.6 billion invested in terms of making people—over 50000 or 60000 young people and those ones who need to retrain—have access to free training. Those businesses can train apprentices for free. They can retain apprentices when they've got them and people who are in areas can retrain. Some of them I've seen in the Hutt are 40-plus who are learning to be home decorators and having a change of course and that's a good thing to have a flexible workforce. There is a specific fund for Māori apprenticeships as well. I was going to say something there but I won't. There will be specific apprenticeships for Māori apprentices. Well I'm sure there will be lots of people applying in that space.When I was at home just not long after lockdown and we got into level 2 we had an electrician come to my home in the Hutt in Belmont and he had with him an apprentice that had been on the job for just two days before the big lockdown kicked in. The business owner said to me that this young guy—he looked about 17 or so—wouldn't have had his job because he got paid the wage subsidy for the entire time that he was on the job. Furthermore he wouldn't be keeping him. He said he'd be gone. He actually sent him out to the van to get something and he said He'd be gone. I wouldn't be able to keep him if it wasn't for the fact that I knew on 1 July that there will be funding for me to retain my apprentices."I'm going to go back to what the Minister for Finance said in his Budget speech because what the Minister of Finance said in his Budget speech really resonated with me because I grew up in about a similar era. I grew up in the time of the 1980s and the 1990s when austerity reigned supreme when we knew families who were on welfare and had their entire budgets cut. Mums with three kids couldn't feed them. It was awful. I had friends and family who had horrible times and we went to university not because we were particularly that keen on going there; it's because there weren't any jobs to go to. We learnt the hard way that austerity and hard times burns the next generation and we don't want to do that. We want a country that grows the next generation who have hope who have jobs who have money in their pockets and who are able to learn and to be confident that they can provide for their own. That's what this Budget does. It looks after the next generation. Yes we know damn right that there are tough times ahead but this is a team that is united to respond to rebuild and to recover and we will do that together."