Brooking RachelRACHEL BROOKING (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker for this opportunity to talk on the Wellbeing Budget 2022 A Secure Future. Like my southern colleague Ingrid Leary I'd like to start by acknowledging the passing of the Hon Stan Rodger who was a fine southern man who supported many people who are both currently in the House and who have been here over the decades since he was here. With that Stan Rodger worked at the Dunedin dental school. I want to just pause on that for a moment because in Dunedin Otago University has the only dental school in the country. When I was growing up I was lucky enough to go there to have my braces—which is a very expensive and non-urgent dental process; I acknowledge that. The importance of dental care relates to all of our health and our mental health. It's with great pleasure that I acknowledge in this Budget the $126 million that is going towards enabling those people on low incomes to have rather than the previous $300 a year $1000 a year.On this focus on the University of Otago Madam Speaker Salesa—acknowledging your relationship with some other universities—there's a lot in this Budget as well for students. One of the basic things for students is of course the ongoing half-price public transport for community services card holders. In addition we've had the six Māori Ministers come to Ōtepoti and talk with us about a range of different issues. One of those is the $168 million to the Māori Health Authority for direct commissioning of services. While in Dunedin we went to Te Kāika which has dental services in arrangement with the university health services and Whānau Ora and tries to look at the whole wellbeing of a person in the same way that this Budget is trying to do with the community.We heard as well about $39 million for hauora Māori workforce development and of course this is very important as we improve our healthcare system that we have people from across the community who are healthcare providers. Once again at the University of Otago the med school there has for a long time now had a mirror on society" policy. This is to try and get through the percentage of the population that is Māori and that is Pasifika to become doctors. That has been a very successful policy and long may it continue and even go further. Of course when patients are seeing a doctor there are lots of different elements that can put a patient at ease and sometimes this will be having a doctor or a nurse of their own ethnicity. But also when we're thinking about the whole system of healthcare you want to have diverse opinions so that we can work out the best way to do things for a range of people.There's $74 million to identify uplift and develop mātauranga Māori services programmes and resources across the health system and I'm sure this will be of interest to many of the academics in Otago and elsewhere.Also relevant particularly to the southern climate is the Warmer Kiwi Homes extension. That's $73 million for an extra $26500 houses to have insulation and heating retrofits. This is good. It's a win-win. It's one of these policies that's good for both the climate and the economy and improves the health of people living there. Last week I was with my colleague Joseph Mooney up at Cardrona at a conservation landscape conference. Those people were talking about the amazing projects across the Southern Lakes District many of which have been funded with Jobs for Nature. There's a lot in this Budget for conservation—and I think that's very important—including money for predator-free for deer management and goat control and for predator control. It would be remiss of me not to mention the resource management reforms and the funding in there for the implementation and development of the three pieces of legislation. When the Resource Management Act came out in 1991 there was only $2 million that went with the implementation of that and that's been a real problem in the system. So I commend this Budget to the House."