O'Connor DamienHon DAMIEN O'CONNOR (Minister of Agriculture): Thank you Mr Speaker. What a miserable speech from a miserable member who looked as though he's been locked away in that dark room for too long. Come out into the sunshine I say and look at the realities of where we are as an economy as a country. This wellbeing Budget was about the wellbeing of this country in to the future and its people—and its people.Fifty billion dollars—never before has this country earned $50 billion from primary sector exports. While that member may have been locked in his dark room he may not realise actually the world is still challenged by COVID. The world is challenged by a war in the Ukraine; supply chain interruptions and transport issues for things like containers that are still challenging and will be for some time. And in spite of all of those things our economy is growing. We have increased the taxes yes and we're proud of it—from a growing economy. We shouldn't be ashamed and we are reinvesting that money back into infrastructure because unlike the previous National Government that sold houses it sold infrastructure like electricity assets refused to invest in infrastructure we are doing that.Look on top of what is the CERF which is the Climate Emergency Response Fund $710 million into the primary and agricultural sectors on the Monday. Then on the Thursday we added to that $119 million in the primary sectors to put over $1 billion or thereabouts into our primary sectors to further grow in a sustainable way the wealth for this country and its people—and its people.Little things like increasing money for driver licences. You may think that insignificant but if you live in rural New Zealand if you're a young person in this country and you can't afford to go through it that is a huge hurdle not just to get into the workforce but then to increase your skills even to attend the polytech—things like that are important. Making sure there is more money for paramedics for ambulances and for helicopters; things that were ignored by the previous National Government we have invested in through this Budget. Upgrades in rural broadband; more police and prevention in rural areas; and in my particular area more money—$40 million extra—for biosecurity on top of the over $68 million that we're continuing to invest to get rid of Mycoplasma bovis.I have to say that this Government has done more for what might be seen as a non-traditional area of support but an area that is crucial to our economy the primary sectors not just the farmers and the foresters and the fishers but all the support people that have enabled us to get to the $50 billion in export earnings and making sure that that money is invested for long-term benefits. A wellbeing Budget for the wellbeing of New Zealand not just the opportunities for a few people at the top end of town.The alternative put forward by the National Party was to cut taxes—they're very good at that except of course when it came to GST. Don't let's ever forget that it was the National Government that increased GST. So their claims of cutting back—and you know what it wouldn't surprise me if their tax cuts budget was calculated on an increase in GST if they were to ever come back into Government. Can anyone on the National Party absolutely refute the idea that they might increase GST in the future? Not a murmur. Not one of them is prepared to say that we won't put up GST—not one of them.I put to you the fact that my colleague Grant Robertson has been the most responsible the most visionary finance Minister that we have seen since the last Labour Government. And indeed because we are investing in long-term infrastructure and we will continue to spend money on people—because people are the most important asset that we have taken for granted for so long by the National Government—to ensure that they get fair wages they get fair conditions they get access to education that they get broadband that they get the services that they deserve in the rural areas of New Zealand. This is an outstanding Budget from an outstanding Government for an outstanding future.