Eagle Paul; Rurawhe AdrianPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai. Things must be pretty gloomy at the top of the South Island but no such luck in the paradise of Rongotai Wellington East Wellington South and of course the wonderful people of the Chatham Islands. I saw the MP for Mana looking over here which means he must have his eye on some real estate in my electorate. But I know that it's only good news on this side of the House because on behalf of the people of Rongotai they want me to say thank you to the Prime Minister her leadership team the executive all the officials and everyone else involved in the fantastic management of the COVID crisis. Too many people to name in this short slot but I do want to acknowledge my colleague from across that heavily protected border of Rongotai in Wellington Central: the Minister of Finance Grant Robertson for his work too on such a fantastic Budget. We've heard the term recovery" mentioned several times. The good news is I bring lots of good stories because like others I was certainly dealing with hundreds of inquiries during lockdown. I was going to focus on lots of other things but I thought I'd talk about the business-related inquiries because that seems to be topical. So whether they were contractors; sole-traders; small large business; you name it they rang. They knew I was at home and so they managed to get some privileged time. But can I say that they were scared because this was a time none of them had ever experienced. They were looking really for hope—but a bit more than hope; they wanted help and advice in real terms. I have to say that the business community in my patch are pretty resilient and I want to acknowledge people like Amanda Elliot who's the owner-operator of the local New World there in Island Bay. She actually rang me in tears in the first couple of weeks scared because she said "Look this is quite an overwhelming experience for me." There was a lot of negative press at the time. She said "Look it's not true. We're doing our best within the rules and we're trying to do the very best for locals." So I said "Well look when I'm next down there let's have a look." And I thought she was doing a pretty good job considering she didn't really know what she was doing except for running a store that she's run for most of her life. Likewise when I look at a couple of local women who had taken a risk late last year and opened up a new gym franchise: F45 it's called; Mel Lourie and Rebecca Patrick—Becks. They decided to quit their consultant jobs and take a punt and open this new gym. They said "Look we've opened this new gym. What are we going to do? We are going to lose our membership. We're scared of it being burgled." It had been burgled unfortunately early on in the opening. So what I noticed between Amanda Mel and Becks is that they came up with innovative thinking. Their innovation was to say to the members "Don't leave us in your droves; keep paying and we'll let you take home some of the equipment. That's our quid pro quo. We want you to stay. We want you to keep fit. We'll move online. We'll show some initiative and be innovative." So that's what they did.I just want to add a bit more on—because the previous speaker Stuart Smith talked about an airline and I too have the privilege of being in daily contact with Air Chathams—that's the lifeline service down to the Chatham Islands. Craig and Duane Emeny—they were wholeheartedly supportive of our aviation package. Can I thank the Minister of Transport for that. They were enabled to keep the business side of it going and what a wonderful way to ensure that just the necessities of life were getting out to the Chatham Islands.But all in all we made money available to businesses. In the Budget we are continuing that line to make money available to those most in need. That's the spirit of this coalition Government. When I look through other parts of it in terms of those bits that I think impact the electorate most there are funds available in all sorts of areas of our Budget to help Kiwis New Zealanders ensure that they can get back to normal—a new normal whatever we're going to brand it however people respond but there's money there for people to continue to live a decent life. Thank you Mr Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Dr Duncan Webb—five minutes."