Lubeck Marja; Williams PotoMARJA LUBECK (Labour): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Madam Assistant Speaker thank you for the opportunity to speak on Budget 2019. Well that was a brilliant analysis from the speaker before me Andrew Bayly. He basically said it comes with a financial cost. Now obviously sustainably growing our economy is important; we completely agree with that but so is the health of our people the health of our communities and the environment. We've heard a lot of criticism from the Opposition and that is obviously their job but they shouldn't really confuse people with their messaging. Now David Seymour was actually the one who said there's nothing new in this Budget. That was misquoted by the Hon Louise Upston. It wasn't a Labour MP; it was actually one of their own Opposition members who said that there's nothing new in this Wellbeing Budget.But I think it's all been very negative and I'd like to just bring it back to a little bit of positivity and just bring us up again talking about these record investments that we're seeing in this Budget. For example if we look at the record investment that we've made in education—my colleague Jamie Strange mentioned it already. This is for the first time ever that we are seeing a multi-year commitment to building our new classes and our new schools. This Budget provides a $1.2 billion funding in a 10-year school programme taking away the uncertainty of future Budgets so that people actually know what is coming and don't have to be thinking of what they might be facing. So that's in contrast with what a traditional Budget would do and that is one of the new things that we're doing here. So this is actually the largest-ever investment that is made by a New Zealand Government.The other record investment that we've seen that people have mentioned is about health. This is starting the process of rebuilding the neglected area of mental health. We know that many New Zealanders are affected by this and in fact on a recent survey I ran in the electorate that I'm based in in Rodney health and mental health was the number one concern for people in an electorate that most people maybe don't associate with people that need the help.What this Budget does is it actually expresses the values of our coalition Government and we're showing that there's a different way of dealing with the issues a different way for the Government to work and address the wellbeing of our people. So instead of having a Budget that focuses on a very limited set of economic data such as GDP we are actually measuring success in a very different way in line with our values in line with fairness protection of our environment and also in line with the strength of our communities.Coming back to the GDP growth we've heard the National Party talk a lot about the GDP growth but how can you ever make a claim to having a rock star economy when actually under that economy we've seen that things like child wellbeing homelessness and the ability to swim in rivers and lakes have absolutely gotten worse over the years.What the National Party in their speeches have done is they have conveniently forgotten that under their watch a decreasing share of the economy has gone to working people. Louise Upston mentioned families and children relying on benefits. Well actually what the National Party never talks about is that the changes they made over successive Governments to employment legislation have created the working poor. These are not children in families that are relying on benefits; these are children in families where mum and dad are holding two or three jobs still doing it tough and still not being able to make ends meet. So these households are struggling and this is what we're saying. You cannot rely on GDP as a measure of success when you're seeing children in households where mum and dad are holding multiple jobs still not being able to be looked after properly.So this Budget is doing things differently. It's starting a whole programme of change. We are ensuring our young people are well equipped with the skills they need to go into the workplace and people are equipped with the skills that they need to cope with any changes in the future. We are looking ahead. In the Budget—as my colleague the Hon Willie Jackson before spoke about—we're doing Mana in Mahi so we are actually increasing the jobs by 2000 getting young people off benefits into meaningful work and that is actually on a way to creating 4000 jobs. Now everybody will agree there's more that we need to be doing but this is just the first start. I'd like to finish with my favourite line in the Hon Grant Robertson speech and that is 51 years after Robert Kennedy's speech on the limits of GDP we begin through this Budget to value and [to] measure all that makes life worthwhile in New Zealand." This Budget is showing that our Government is looking ahead 30 years not three.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Liz Craig you have five minutes. Thank you."