Bennett Glen; Dean JacquiGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): Over the past almost two weeks I've done exactly what has just been said: I've been around and about the electorate of New Plymouth talking with people. And I've been humbled by the interactions I've had with people in my electorate as we've shared our Government's Budget with them. I've appreciated being part of this Government and I continue to appreciate being part of this Government. I appreciate being part of a Chris Hipkins - led Government—our hard-working Prime Minister who is doing right by New Zealanders. I appreciate being part of a Government with a finance Minister like the Hon Grant Robertson and his laser focus on ensuring that we get today's issues right while looking towards our future.As I've got around New Plymouth and talked with people I've been blown away by the appreciation that has come back to us in terms of what we've been putting in to the people in our regions around Aotearoa New Zealand. I was at the 50th jubilee of Tainui Village a rest home in my community and we were celebrating the amazing achievements of that community-run facility and all it's done in the past 50 years. During the celebrations I had the local pharmacist who administers the medicines to that rest home come and see me and the appreciation he had for this Government's policy—removing the $5 co-payment for prescriptions—was evident as he was shaking and telling me did I realise the difference this was going to make for his customers and his clients but also the appreciation that he had as a small-business owner. The fact that this change meant a lot for a place like New Plymouth a small city—and we have two of the Australian big brand retailers who have come in to town who have been selling their wares and it's been a challenge for our pharmacists and they've appreciated what's happened. Rather than I guess what we look at in terms of the other side of the House and their deprecation when they pull these things to pieces and they say It's just $5 what the heck what does it matter?" Or that they're going to reinstate the $5 prescription and then they're going to roll that back and then they're going to sort of have that bit where they carve parts out for SuperGold card holders or for community services card holders. But $5 is actually a decent chunk of money. I was doing my maths: $5 is three loaves of bread; it's two litres of milk with a bit of change left over; it's half a dozen eggs with a bit of change left over; it's a kilo of potatoes with change left over; it's a kilo of bananas—and the list goes on. So this does make a difference and it concerns me when I hear the deprecation the cuts that come from the other side of the House. Even Christopher Luxon this afternoon talking about what he might do in terms of cutting whether it be for women's contraception products whether it be them being in coalition with the ACT Party who are going to axe the Ministry for Women—the "coalition of cuts" and obviously the "coalition of cutting women in spaces where they should be". I also want to mention that during the break and during my time getting around the electorate I was part of the Reducing Energy Hardship conference in New Plymouth and there were about 300 people who came along looking at the challenges that we're facing. We are doing work on this side of the House around alleviating poverty alleviating energy hardship but boy we've got a lot more work to do. As I was at that conference there was the appreciation for the work that we're doing around reducing power bills and adding 100000 more additional heating and retrofitting to create warmer safer healthier homes. And at this conference I got chatting with one of our local providers the WISE Charitable Trust and they last year did a partnership with Te Whatu Ora and their paediatrics ward. They worked with families who'd had their children come in with respiratory issues and they went into the homes and they looked at the heating in the homes they looked at energy efficiencies they looked at ventilation they looked at moisture control they looked at reducing heat loss. And as I spoke to the organisation about how it had gone in terms of the retrofitting work they'd done and they'd insulated—they had done the work in many of these homes of these families with these children with respiratory issues; last winter none of those children went back to hospital none of them. None of them went back to hospital because they had found ways to ensure that their homes were warm their homes were healthy and their homes were in a state that they could care for their own children. And that comes down completely to this where we have ensured that 100000 more additional homes will be warmer will be healthier and will be safer for children for our tamariki. That's why we on this side appreciate the work that we do. We appreciate the appreciation we received and we don't want to see the deprecating cuts from the other side that they are spouting. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Stuart Smith—five minutes."