Luxton Jo; Dean JacquiJO LUXTON (Labour—Rangitata): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to take a call in this the Address in Reply debate—my first opportunity to speak in the House since we've come back from the summer break. I just want to take the opportunity to welcome everyone back here and I hope that everyone has had a lovely summer break. Everyone's looking somewhat rested after having to make the change from shorts and t-shirts to office attire. There's a little bit of adjusting: I think we've only just got used to the bit of the jandal that goes between our toes and now we're having to pop our heels back on so it's a bit of shame. But when we think about the fact that we've been away on our summer break we've had the opportunity to spend time with our families and with our friends. We've been able to holiday around the country. We've been able to explore our own backyard. I spent a little bit of time in Akaroa and I have to say it was the busiest I've ever seen it prior to obviously when the cruise ships were in. It's fantastic to see people exploring their own backyard and it's very lucky that we have the opportunity to do so. I spent a bit of my time over the summer break just reflecting on how lucky we are. On Christmas day I volunteered at the community lunch in Timaru and there were hundreds of people there from actually all walks of life. I hadn't helped at a Christmas lunch before and I had in my mind where the people there might have come from and what situations they might be in. But they were from all walks of life I have to say. I was looking around the room and I was thinking that some of these people are elderly on their own have no other family and the fact that they could come along and attend the community Christmas lunch I think just meant everything to them. You could see that some of them had been coming for years and have developed wonderful friendships over those years.So for us to be able to spend time together like that we have to thank partly—actually a lot of the thanks has to obviously go to all of us here in New Zealand the team of 5 million as we are often referred to who have made the sacrifices we had to make and did what we needed to do in order to come out the other side of our lockdown. But I also think it's very very important that we acknowledge the strong leadership of our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her team that she had around her. We've heard today and we know for a fact that the health response was what we wanted to focus on first and we've heard that the health response was the best economic response as well. And we can see that because there are many businesses that have obviously now reopened they are trading we've got people training and/or retraining and what's really pleasing to see in that space is a lot of people training in the trades and it's exciting to see the amount of women that are beginning to train in the trades. What we do know is that women were quite severely impacted as a result of COVID and job loss. So it's really fantastic to see that this is happening for our women.This Government is going to continue focusing on the wellbeing of its citizens. I want to think about things that are happening for our children. They're going to be affected obviously by the continuation of the overhaul of the welfare system. We've also seen the roll-out previously of lunches in schools and we're going to continue and increase that roll-out. We just heard this morning in select committee from the Ministry of Education the positive impact that the healthy lunches in schools programme is having and it's actually impacting in a positive way on attendance levels. We're seeing children who might otherwise not be at school whether it's the fact that their family doesn't have enough food to give them for lunch—so that's the embarrassment around that—but we are seeing it impact in a positive way on students' attendance in schools.We're going to continue focusing on reducing inequality and I think that's something that is going to be very important going forward as I said particularly with the women in our community who have been mostly affected by job loss in the community. So—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! The member's time has expired. This is a split call—I call Golriz Ghahraman.