Wall Louisa; Tisch LindsayLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Talofa. Tautoko Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa.[Greetings. I support Samoan Language Week.]It is Samoan Language Week and hopefully I have not hashed it too much. But I really just wanted to pay my respects to our Samoan community. I really want to start with a focus on the Budget tax cuts. In a lot of the speeches across the House there was an emphasis on reward—that this Government was going to reward people was going to reward individuals was going to reward families by giving them tax cuts because they have earned them. You reward someone in recognition of their service their effort and their achievement. So I want to congratulate the Government on behalf of Susan St John and the Child Poverty Action Group because what the Budget has done is lift about 50000 children who live in severe poverty out of poverty. So congratulations—50000 children have been elevated out of poverty through your Budget measures.But in highlighting that I want to say that there are another 150000 children who get nothing. Who are these children? Why are they not being rewarded for being citizens of our country? Why are they not being cared for to the value of everyone else? Because actually they are beneficiary children. They come from beneficiary families and this Budget has absolutely ignored them and continues to entrench the poverty that they are living in. So congratulations—150000 children continue to live in severe hardship.I really want to focus on the education budget and it is really relevant because this week I found out that of the 214 schools that are overcrowded in New Zealand five of them are in Manurewa. Rowandale School has 127 percent capacity. It is 27 percent overcrowded. Clendon Park School 119 percent overcrowding; Finlayson Park School 117 percent overcrowding; in addition to Hōmai Primary School and Manurewa East School.In Rowandale School's case it needs six new classrooms. It is interesting because of where Rowandale School is and where Clendon Park School is—and this is the only other aspect of the Budget and some of the announcements that the Government has made that I can say thank you for because at the moment the Government has removed over 200 Housing New Zealand houses. In my community I have got 300 families on the waiting list. The Government has removed over 200 but it has said to me that it is giving us between 600 and 800 more. We just have to wait. I have said to officials: How long do we have to wait? One year 2 years 3 years 4 years?". Very soon I am going to have another 600 to 800 State houses around those schools. So I am just wondering how many extra classrooms Rowandale School and Clendon Park School are going to need and how long it is going to take for them to be serviced.I want to highlight Linda Stewart's contribution to this whole discussion about how much extra funding has been received. So there is $60.5 million in operational grants over 4 years and 4 percent of schools with the most at-risk students are going to get another $2 per child per year. So that $60.5 million over 4 years should be seen in the context of an annual need of $50 million. So in fact again it is a bit of a "Thanks for the $60 million but actually we need $200 million."The other issue with the education budget is that it is not even catching up with inflation pressures. We had the Post Primary Teachers' Association President Jack Boyle say that there is going to be some extra funding particularly in the school property area but that is at 1.3 percent as opposed to the 2.6 percent in inflation. So in fact the money you have given to education—again thank you for 50 percent of the need but actually there is a whole lot of unmet need in that area.What I really want to conclude with is that there is a lot of poverty in our communities. There is a lot of stress on our families. But there is also stress on the public servants who are serving our communities. I have just highlighted one: our school communities. Actually I think there are some health and safety issues at the schools under these circumstances. Teachers are stressed schools are stressed everybody is stressed and think there is a looming disaster. We already know our suicide statistics are horrendous but the biggest challenge we have actually is retaining the workforce. It is not being supported to meet the demand. Kia ora.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The next call is a split call—Todd Muller 5 minutes."