Coffey TāmatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): That last contribution was complete rubbish In fact if the last National Government had actually invested into mental health like they should have—if they'd actually invested into health infrastructure full stop—and if they didn't have a couple of years where they spent nothing on health infrastructure we wouldn't be standing here talking about the big hole that there was to fill in our health system. We wouldn't be standing here talking about the fact that we don't have a mental health system that's responsive to the needs of New Zealanders because they could have and they should have done something but they didn't. They didn't—they sat on their hands. They've waited until we've come into Government. We are the first Government to take mental health seriously in New Zealand and yes we've spent a lot of money on it. But actually a lot of that money went into just filling the hole in the first place that had been left by the previous National Government. In Rotorua we have turned the sod on the first mental health inpatient unit: $31 million has gone into that. There are lots of these initiatives all around the country that are slowly rolling out but it's going to take time. I'm not here to talk about that; I'm here to talk about the economy because actually it's about the economy stupid. Actually the economy is doing really well under a Labour Government considering we've just come out of a pandemic and considering we've actually just had two years of incredibly traumatic events happen to our economy. More specifically I want to talk about the visitor economy because back where I come from in the geothermal paradise of Rotorua we've got a festival going on right now. We've got the Crankworx festival going on. It is the Olympics of mountain biking and we have visitors coming in from all around the world to come and travel around New Zealand as well. They don't just stay in Rotorua; they travel all around the country and they spend money. The Crankworx festival has been given funding by the Major Events Fund here in—well it was actually our Government that has given them $8.1 million over the next five years to be able to sustain their event and it's been a game-changer for them to be able to engage in some decent planning over the long term to be able to build this event build it to be bigger than it's ever been before and it's happening right now in Rotorua. So for those people that can get to Rotorua I encourage you to. For those people that can't get there switch on the TVs because it's being broadcast all around the world to the USA to Canada to Germany the UK Italy France Indonesia and Australia. This is an event that has a huge economic impact on the community and the country at large but it's been because of our Government's investment into these events that this has been able to happen. Let's talk about the numbers. The numbers heading into this summer are looking strong. There were 145000 overseas visitors who arrived in the four weeks to the start of November. Over 10000 working holiday visa holders have now arrived in New Zealand. International card spend is at 88 percent of pre-COVID levels in the four weeks to the end of September. An economic boost is expected from cruise ships that are docking into all ports all around the country and their expected spend is anything between $350 million to $510 million. That is huge and we know that around 19 percent of total bed nights booked for 2022-23 are from international visitors. Finally to my beloved hospitality industry—the faces of our visitor economy—I'm pleased to see that wages and salaries across the hospitality sector continue to increase despite businesses having to battle through the tough trading period that was COVID-19. The average hourly wage in hospitality is up $2 to $24.43. Both the minimum wage and the living wage including the new living wage rate of $23.65—that kicked in from September. The problem of staff shortages has been addressed with recent changes to immigration so that we can attract capable chefs into kitchens in our restaurants all across Aotearoa and locally led initiatives like the one that we had in Rotorua down on Eat Street where we had businesses come together with our chamber of commerce and come together with the Ministry of Social Development to actually say We are open for business. If you need a job come and sign up."—actually there was incredible success that we had from that local initiative.It is going to be a good summer. Our visitor economy is looking strong and we're seeing numbers in tourism and hospitality returning to the numbers that we had prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm looking forward to a really good summer on behalf of all of those people that will be staffing up and will be getting ready for a huge summer ahead not least back home in Rotorua. I hope that over the term of the school holidays and over the time of our Christmas break actually our visitor economy does as well as it possibly could. Kia ora."