Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): So I've ended up with some minutes to have a good ramble in and ramble I will.Rt Hon David Carter: You always do.MARAMA DAVIDSON: I know. It's a part I love about my job—the member was just saying. We've actually been doing it all wrong to be honest and the world is starting to know this. The world is starting to realise that we have actually been doing economy wrong. What we have been doing is we have been taking into account a narrow definition of what the economy actually is and we have been measuring using narrow indicators to measure well-being in terms of how well our country is doing economically. The world is understanding this. Aotearoa is definitely understanding this. And what I wanted to do in this time was talk about some of the indicators where some of the Budget announcements and estimations are going to put us on track as we start to realise what the people are saying: that we have been doing the economy wrong. We need to be extending our well-being indicators for how we say How are we going? How are we doing? How are people? How are communities? How is our environment?" And therefore really "How is our economy?"So what we ended up with over many decades and actually generations is a narrow "economic success" definition that talked about GDP that talked about balance sheets and that talked about fiscal measurements all the while housing was going down the toilet and our environmental degradation was going down the toilet. We are losing species and indigenous species at a rate that should be alarming all of us. We are having people and families in our country in living situations that should not be acceptable in this country. We are having workers and low-income paid workers who are in dire financial situations where that should not be happening in our country. We have a health crisis with our hospitals where that should not be happening in our country. We have key workers in our communities who can't afford to live in our communities. That should not be happening in our country. So I am pleased with the direction that the Estimates has started to track us on to. Absolutely.We can just take as an indication the huge boost in funding—$181 million—in conservation to target predators restore our native ecosystems and support conservation activities. We can take that huge boost also as an indication of the neglect over the entire nine years of the previous Government and a narrow attitude that looking after our environment was not a core part of our economy. So we absolutely need to understand why that massive injection of funding was necessary. We have to transform how we think our country is doing when it comes to the economy.We can no longer operate in a vacuum and with an isolationist understanding that says "As long as we are making those massive surpluses and that GDP hit whether our kauri trees are dying around us whether there are people living under bridges and in cars and in boarding houses whether people are having to move seven times a year because they cannot find secure affordable healthy homes"—we will no longer separate those issues out from how well our country is doing. So I was pleased to see the signs in this Budget that put up a flag to say we don't accept that definition any more. We understand that our country and people around the world are saying that it is no longer good enough. It led us down the wrong path.I was of course celebrating Minister Twyford's budget investing $2 billion into getting affordable starter homes built because at the moment our country has been saying "Only a few with wealth can afford to own a home and put down roots in your community. Only the wealthy and privileged few can own quite a few homes actually—many homes—while over 50 percent of the country is still renting." and that number is growing higher and higher. So we are sending a different message. We are saying that that is no longer good enough. We cannot shout from the rooftops about a good economy while all of that is happening around us. More importantly we are sending a message about what this country needs to value and where we are going to put our money behind our talk. That is the important message that was coming through in the indications and some of the Estimates that have come through. The Greens are very clear in fact as are our colleagues that this is just the start. This is not the end of where we mean to get to. This is the start of saying "We don't accept that definition of economic success anymore."I think the previous speaker David Carter mentioned how the previous policies were built on sound economic review. That's not good enough any more and everybody knows it. We know that you can't get away with it any more. And I'm celebrating that. I'm so proud of Minister Shaw's launch of the work on well-being indicators. That is transformational stuff. That is going to set our economy and the way we think of well-being in this country in a direction that will take us into the future—into a sustainable future—where we understand that our economic environmental and social outcomes are all connected; that cannot look at any one of those in a vacuum. That is what the various Estimates the various initiatives in this Government's first Budget signalled. We will say from this point that housing is a human right. We will say from this point that ensuring people are in good warm affordable secure homes is crucial to our economic well-being. Ensuring that our biodiversity our ecological species and our native species—many of whom we are losing at an alarming rate and are threatened at an alarming rate—are core to our economic well-being.I am very pleased to be able to stand on this side of the House and support the fact that we are making a start on mental health with funding for youth services and putting more nurses into more schools. I am very pleased to be able to say that this side understands the importance of mental health in our young people and in our communities and the importance of providing those services as core to the overall sustainable well-being of our country. I am very pleased to be part of the side of the House that understands where we need to go to stop ourselves from heading down a dark path that we were on including from the nine years of the narrow economic well-being definition that the previous Government tried to hold up for so long.That's falling down around their ears now and they know it—they know it. They know that they can't harp on about that while there is mould in hospitals. They know that they can't harp on about that while teachers nurses police and firefighters are struggling to pay the rent in the communities that they live in. They know they can't get away with that any more and I'm very happy to be on the side of the House that understands that. Thank you."