Naylor JonoJONO NAYLOR (National): I would just like to start this contribution with a little bit of a correction. Mr Faafoi referred to Specsavers before and I think Clayton Mitchell the member who has just sat down might also like a visit to Specsavers because he seemed to mistake nodding off to sleep for nodding in agreement on my part. So I think we just want to start with a little bit of clarification around that. However one point when I was not asleep in that last contribution was when the member described 1080 as napalming our forests with 1080". A little bit of a science lesson might be in order as well. Napalm if you want to destroy birdlife in New Zealand would be a great way to go about it so no one is suggesting that we actually napalm forests. But what we did hear is that while over the last 50 years we have managed to not lose any of our species what we do know from this recent report is that if we were to stop using 1080 in New Zealand we would see 12 species become extinct within 10 years. I think it is quite irresponsible to portray what has just been said by that previous member. Now I want to shift my focus to this current Budget. When thinking about this current Budget I have to say the sonnet from the famous poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning came to mind. Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her 43rd sonnet said "Oh how I love thee let me count the ways". And when comes to the Budget of 2017 I have to say "Budget 2017 how much do I love thee let me count the ways". Well the No. 1 way that I love this Budget is that as a result of this Budget 1.3 million working-age families will be $26 a week better off on average. Another way in which I love this Budget is that as a result of it 136000 low-income families will benefit from increases to the accommodation supplement. How I love this Budget is that people earning more than $22000 a year will be $11 a week better off and how I love this Budget is that people earning over $52000 will be $20 better off. I love this Budget because to my dear mother who said to me "Yes but what's in it for superannuitants?" I can look her in the eye and say: "Mum superannuitants will be better off because the policy of this Government is that superannuation is tagged to the median after-tax income." And guess what? In the tax breaks that are being offered to people under this Budget for next year superannuitants will also see—750000 of them in fact—that their incomes will go up as well. There are so many reasons to love this Budget on a whole bunch of grounds and people have canvassed them widely. I just want to focus for a moment though on something that has not necessarily received a lot of attention but is very very important. It is the wise management of New Zealand's finances. What we have seen over the last eight Budgets from our now Prime Minister the Hon Bill English is wise management which has allowed us now to be in a place of surpluses when Treasury has been predicting that we would be having deficits for a lot longer. What this allows us to do is start to repay some of that debt that we had to accumulate over the last while to help rebuild Christchurch and to help maintain core public services. We do not resile from the fact that money was borrowed during a difficult time to meet the requirements that we had as a country. So it is responsible now that we are in a place of surplus and now that our economy is performing so well and getting us the surpluses that we so badly needed to get—and we have—to pay down some of that debt and to build infrastructure because we do not know when the next earthquake may strike and we do not know when the next global financial crisis may hit. So we are taking a responsible approach with this Budget. We are actually seeing that something is being sorted for a rainy day through the repayment of debt and through the building of infrastructure. That is what a responsible Government does. That is what a responsible Government that is accountable for providing well for all New Zealanders does—not just cherry-picking for the ones that we want to look after but providing for the welfare and the ongoing support of all New Zealanders. This Budget is a good Budget and I look forward to seeing the fruits of it in the future. Thank you."