SpeechTONI SEVERIN (ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. In response to the Prime Minister's statement my thoughts go out to those who have been affected by the cyclones with flooding and slips. I can relate to some of these feelings that you are having—from someone who went through the Christchurch earthquakes from the east side of Christchurch—and not knowing how to get in contact with one's loved ones is very very difficult.When there's cyclones we have a large number of businesses affected farms small businesses our horticulture centre and many lost homes around Northland Auckland and the East Coast of the North Island which will need to be replaced.As someone who has seen how the recovery for Christchurch earthquake has gone my suggestion to this Government is to listen to the locals as they know what their needs are and what needs to be done to rebuild their communities better.Some of these locals will be part of our disabilities community who have had extra requirements to be notified re conditions for their safety. Currently in the House we have an accessibility bill for our disability communities. However this does not seem to have been listened to by this Government—to make accessibility easy for our disabilities community.This Government talks about building more housing and infrastructure. Well they promised with Kāinga Ora a 15 percent for disabled people universal design—wow! Have we just seen the news recently? Well I hope—when you look and if we build these houses—that we look at the future with universal design because I have been informed we are all temporarily able. At some stage we may all become temporarily disabled or permanently disabled. These communities need to be listened to. They know what is required for them to have a better life. And also the cost of living is affecting them more so than some other parts of our communities.You know the other thing is this Government says that they want to keep our communities safe. Well we all want to keep our communities safe. And one area this Government didn't quite put in here but it's very important is around the rehabilitation of prisoners. Now how can we release prisoners if they do not have basic literacy and numeracy skills to come back into our communities and be part of those communities and to be offered jobs? We need people on the ground. These people—we know they have done wrong but let's give them the opportunity to come out and have a fresh start. But if they don't have the skills then how can they part of our communities?The other thing is electronic monitoring is a possible solution that has been used to keep an eye on some of our prisoners instead of being in prison. But however we have a slight problem that when the power goes out—yes the electronic bracelets monitor where these people are but in a big crisis that we have just seen you know there is a shortage of people and manpower on the ground to check on these high risk electronic monitored people and it is putting more pressure on those staff. Again we have a shortage of corrections staff. How can we also allow prisoners to see their families if we do not have enough staff to be able to allow that? And that is part of their rehabilitation.Now also for these prisoners that have been moved around the country how can family visit them in a cost of living crisis when things are so expensive? Families can't fly to visit them; people cannot drive to visit them. So there are so many areas that are still yet to be done and so much money that needs to be spent. But let's make sure that the money is spent correctly in the right areas and not just thrown out to consultants. Let's make sure the money is on the ground where the infrastructure is needed. And this way we can have better communities and better communities for all. Thank you Mr Speaker.