Nakhle RimaRIMA NAKHLE (National—Takanini): Thank you Madam Speaker. It is my absolute pleasure actually to rise and speak in support of the Appropriation (2023/24 Supplementary Estimates) Bill. It's my pleasure for a number of reasons mostly because I'd like to start and preface my kōrero today with this analogy if I may: imagine that you've left your house for a few years and you come back and you've—sorry not you; one walks back into their home and finds it ransacked. Everything is broken tables turned windows smashed. It's going to take time to fix up one's home. It's going to take time and it's going to take careful measurement of how much one can spend in fixing up their home. This is what we've been tasked to do as of last year we have to fix up our ransacked and damaged home.I'm proud of the fact that there's a massive focus in our first Budget as a Government and an awesome one if I may add. I'd like to highlight a few focuses that really resonate with my neighbours in Takanini South and East Auckland: tax relief education health infrastructure law and order. And I'm happy to say that our Budget provides for a number of other areas as well despite the fact that we're fixing up this ransacked home. But these areas are areas that we felt were an extreme priority and I believe will positively impact my neighbours in Takanini.Let's focus on tax relief. In eight days—yes that's right eight days—on 31 July 3.5 million New Zealanders are set to receive tax relief for the first time in years. They've been struggling my neighbours in Takanini and all across New Zealand have been struggling and still are struggling but some relief is coming. It's not going to solve all of the struggles but it will help.Some of that relief will be: we are adjusting finally the bottom three tax thresholds so that my neighbours can keep more of what they earn. We're extending the eligibility for the independent earner tax credit we're increasing in-work tax credit we're lifting the minimum family tax credit and we're introducing FamilyBoost payment. When I was door-knocking during the campaign I let families that had their little bubs on their shoulders on their arms while they were talking to me know that FamilyBoost is coming. That's just a few of the things we're doing to provide tax relief to our whānau in Takanini and beyond.Madam Speaker please let me move on to the education sector. We're committing despite the ransacked home that we have to fix up $2.9 billion to the education sector over the next four years. This will improve student outcomes. We're going to hire more teachers and provide them with better support. Minister Stanford knows exactly what she's doing and underpinning all her decisions is that care. We're going to be hiring as I said more teachers. We're going to be building new classrooms funding structured literature with that $2.9 billion as well and investing in early childhood education amongst the many other measures. Part of this investment plan includes the Budget 2024's $456 million injection into school property growth. And here I am absolutely thrilled to repeat what I announced a couple of weeks ago that a brand-new primary school is coming to Flatbush; Flatbush being one of the suburbs in my electorate of Takanini.This is part of our coalition the Government's plan in investment in school property growth from the Budget that we're considering today. This new school is the first to have been announced by Minister Stanford and myself and I know the benefits that this will bring to the schools in the area to the parents in the area—there's going to be more choice. As I've mentioned before in the House Takanini is one of the fastest growing electorates in the country and our Minister of Education has seen this need and has announced—as I said I was absolutely absolutely thrilled by the news—that a new primary school is coming to Takanini. It's going to cater for 600 students from years 1 to 6 and construction starts later this year. So anyone that has social media please follow my page and I'll keep you up to date with the progress.Our Government is supporting our children for a brighter future with this Budget. Health: record investment—those two words we've spoken about them they've been said in this House a number of times and I'll repeat them—record investment in health. Despite the ransacked home our health sector will also get a significant boost of more than $16 billion allocated to health across the next three Budgets. That's priorities; this is knowing what our priorities are. This includes money for hospitals and specialist services; primary community and public health services. There is $1.7 billion for Pharmac to ensure our fellow Kiwis can get access to the medicine they need.Roads and infrastructure is another major focus of this very well thought out Budget. Despite the broken ransacked home $2.68 billion will be invested into our roads rail public transport. We're going to unlock economic growth and we're going to get Kiwis and freight where they need to go quickly and safely. This includes $1 billion to accelerate the delivery of roads of national significance. I'm sure many in the House know by now one of those roads of national significance is in the Takanini electorate: Mill Road. Finally after being promised twice by the former Government that Mill Road will be built—and reneging on that promise—we are getting back to work on Mill Road. Don't worry neighbours in Takanini Mill Road will get done. Finally if I can please dedicate the rest of my time—I wish I had triple the time—to talk about law and order and the investment our Government is making in law and order. But I don't want to categorise it as law and order actually I'd like to categorise this as making Kiwis feel safe. Because that's exactly what our investment in law and order is doing it's making our neighbours our families our businesses our children be able to feel safe in their homes in our communities on the streets. As part of our commitment to restoring safety we're going to be investing $651 million over the next four years in critical support for our amazing exceptional police force. As we know—but I'm going to repeat it for the benefit of my cousins listening in from Australia—we're going to be employing 500 extra police officers. We're going to be boosting pay and supporting our police to help us all feel safe in our homes in our streets in our schools.Mr Speaker welcome to the Chair. What I'd like to highlight if I may is—I'd like to recognise as a former speaker spoke earlier Mr Gurdeep Singh. His jewellery store is in Papatoetoe and as we know there was a violent horrendous attack against him and his family while he was just trying to make a living. And not only make a living this guy's a very generous man that gives to different organisations as well.Stonz Jewellers in Takanini—smash and grab in broad daylight on a Sunday around 4 a.m. last year. Other business owners that I've spoken to in my electorate are dreading to go to sleep because of that fateful phone call that they might get at 2.30 in the morning saying Your business has been attacked again." That's the reality that we face in South Auckland and it angers me when other people make out as if our Government is just trying to please some type of vague group. No we're addressing issues that are the reality in South Auckland.Our military-style academy: finally—finally—it's going to be addressing youth offending. We campaigned on this heavily and guess when these pilots will begin—because we're not wasting time we're not sitting and waiting for more ideas to come across; we know what we need to do—six days is when this pilot will start.I'm absolutely proud of what we've managed to scrape together after we've entered this ransacked home. Budget 2024 is going to deliver for many including my neighbours in Takanini. I commend this bill to the House."