Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Kia ora Mr Speaker. Today I stand along with my Ngāti Maniapoto relation Nanaia Mahuta to support our Ngāti Maniapoto relation Simon Bridges. Simon Bridges needs support at this time and as part of the Māori caucus and in the spirit of Christmas—[Interruption] No no we support Simon. OK he's at 7 percent. He's 7 percent but he used to be 6 percent and you know the way he's going he could get to 8 percent. We're saying—the Māori caucus is saying—You hang in there Simon Bridges. Don't buckle." I know he's got leakers at one side and Mark Mitchell is organising the other leakers and they're cutting each other's throats but what a leader. What a leader—handsome Brylcreem-ed. You know there's a real future for him so the Māori caucus want him there right till the end which will come—well we don't know when it's going to come. But in terms of relations—and Nanaia and I can't pick our relations; we can't help it—we're proud of what he's doing. We weren't so proud of him as a Minister. He was the most useless transport Minister in the history of transport Ministers and we've had to fix that. We've got Phil Twyford fixing Auckland now—fixing the infrastructure that the former useless Minister of Transport Simon Bridges effected. So now we have the Hon Phil Twyford who's doing the business—doing the business for the people of this country—because poor old Simon Bridges stuffed it all up. However his transition to the leadership has been good despite the National Party leaks and despite National trying to cut his throat every day. Poor Simon Bridges he can't even last question time. He's going back to his office to check his email to check what Gerry Brownlee's been doing and to check what the young fullas are doing. They're such a traitorous vicious lot on the other side unlike this side where we're united tight and all together. We're all united and we've got a strategy going forward. I'm so proud of this Labour Party that's done the business over the last 12 months. I'm most proud of the Families Package where we're putting money back into Kiwis who have been suffering. Up to $75 a week is going into the pockets of New Zealanders who were starved by the last Government which forgot about people in South Auckland and forgot about people in west Auckland and put them in homes that wouldn't have passed any day of the week. We've now ensured from our healthy homes bill that they've got warm homes and they've got comfortable homes and in our health package we've put billions back in—$28 billion—in terms of infrastructure. We've put $28 billion into the health system where we've had rotting hospitals and where we've had an infrastructure that was totally stuffed up by the last Government. So I'm rapt with some of the work that's been rolled out by this Government including some of the work that the Hon Chris Hipkins—I'm just looking at him—is doing in terms of reforming the education system. And in terms of employment we're so happy that finally we are getting our nephs off the couch. We've got a reduction in terms of NEETs from 80000 to 70000 so we're pulling our nephs off the couch as Shane Jones talks about and we're talking about more women now in employment and more Māori in employment—much more than we had before. We're on the rise here and it's all due to the investment that we're making in terms of our people in the regions and in youth. In terms of what's happening in the regions I'm so proud in terms of what we're doing with regards to He Poutama Rangatahi where we're deciding to get behind our young people in the North in the Tauranga area and on the East Coast where we're giving them an opportunity. We're absolutely supporting our young people and who would not support Mana in Mahi? Even that useless lot on the other side they support Mana in Mahi. Why? Because it gives an opportunity to people who never had opportunities before and that is the difference with this Government. This is a Government that rules for everyone. It's not just a Government that looks after their rich mates as Gerry Brownlee and his mates have done for many many years. It's a Government that wants an economy that can fulfil the promise and look after everyone who should be looked after: young people Māori Pasifika women the people in the disability sector—the people who have been forgotten are the people that this Government supports and I'm proud to be part of it. Kia ora tātou katoa."