Tinetti JanJAN TINETTI (Labour): I've decided listening to those speeches on the other side it must be very very hard to be so negative and so angry all the time. So just before I start I'll just give them a wee bit of advice. I just googled very quickly then how do I stop being so negative all the time?" and it does say here: live more in the moment stop thinking about the past believe in the power of positive thinking focus on the now and focus on the future. That's exactly what we're doing here on this side of the House: we're focusing on the now and we're focusing on the future.Now I want to turn it around a wee bit and be a bit more positive here. Last week we had a fantastic day that we celebrated on Friday: we celebrated International Women's Day. International Women's Day is a day where we can get the chance to celebrate all the amazing achievements of women not just the amazing wonderful well-known women but also those that are striving to make a difference in this world every single day the women that toil away and go often without notice. I have to say that I had the great privilege to attend an event—actually it was on Saturday the day after International Women's Day but I'm sure it was that day somewhere in the world. I went to a Shakti event and just the amazing achievements that those women achieve on behalf of all women—I take my hat off to them.I also want to take this time to acknowledge that this Government is delivering better outcomes for women through more productive sustainable and inclusive growth. I'm really pleased to see the work that this Government is doing. We already have got children and families at the heart of our programme and we have already—I've got my wee list here so I am going to look at that but things like the fact that we have put in place already the Families Package including the Best Start payment. How great is that for women that in that baby's first year they can rely on that payment no matter what? I think that's a fantastic achievement for our new mothers. Extending paid parental leave: it will be 26 weeks from July 2020. A significant increase in funding for family violence services—in fact we saw the first funding boost to our front-line services in 10 years. It is something that I heard a lot about before that announcement was made of how desperate they were for that funding and the difference that it will make to those services and the work that they do. We celebrated the passing of Jan Logie's victims' protection bill which allows victims of domestic violence up to 10 days' paid leave to deal with the impact of domestic violence—again a real difference in the lives of those women.But this year what I am so excited about will be the passing of the Equal Pay Amendment Bill. This will address the historic inequalities that women have had for pay and they have waited for so long. They have absolutely waited. Yesterday I spoke to school support staff members. It just reminded me how important this bill really is in their lives. This group of women—who are actually mainly women; I think they are an over 95 percent female-dominated part of the workforce—are the backbone of any school. Most school principals will tell any of us that they cannot operate their schools without these essential highly talented highly wonderful and highly skilled professionals and yet I heard yesterday when I was talking to some of these women how they're on little more than minimum wage when they're so essential in the workforce. They're certainly a group that have been waiting a long long long time to have their claims addressed. That's what's exciting when they were talking about their excitement at seeing this bill not just for them but to address the inequalities for women everywhere.It's not only the bills that we are progressing it's not only the work that we're progressing; we're also progressing the work for women in the well-being Budget. The five priorities are there but the one that I want to highlight as I finish is reducing child poverty and improving child well-being including addressing family violence. Thank you."