Redmayne Suze; Kuriger BarbaraSUZE REDMAYNE (National—Rangitīkei): I'm incredibly proud of this Budget. I'm incredibly proud of our Minister of Finance and our Prime Minister. It is a fiscally responsible Budget the first one in seven years I have to say. It's a Budget for all New Zealanders a Budget for everyday Kiwis including those that live in the mighty Rangitīkei—my fantastic electorate 12500 square kilometres of greatness.Hon Tama Potaka: Majesty—majesty.SUZE REDMAYNE: Ha ha! Of majesty yes. Tama knows it well. Look this is a great Budget in terms of delivering tax relief for the squeezed middle giving average income households up to $102 a fortnight. And ladies and gentlemen that clicks in in one week. We're all very excited about that. Plus the FamilyBoost childcare payments—up to $150 a fortnight.I've been out and about in my electorate in the recess and I've enjoyed talking to people and they are very excited about this. It makes a real difference. For some people it means they can get a pizza on a Friday night. It's absolutely brilliant. A retired couple on superannuation will get an extra $9 a fortnight rising up to around $26 a fortnight by 2026. What's more our tax package is funded through savings and new revenue measures—Hon David Parker: No it's not! Every cent is borrowed!SUZE REDMAYNE: —which means it will not add to Government debt. My colleagues across the House know very well that's true. It will also deliver [Interruption] Budget 2024 will deliver more doctors it will deliver more hospital and specialist services more breast screening and more mental health services. It was a privilege to have Minister Matt Doocey in my electorate the other day and visit Palmerston North Hospital and take him to see Doctor Dave Baldwin. Hon Dr Deborah Russell: That's in the Palmerston North electorate!SUZE REDMAYNE: We don't have a hospital in our electorate. It's our hospital too. And more mental health services. There are great people doing great things in my electorate. We've got businesses that are really excited about this Budget really excited about letting them get ahead cutting wasteful spending giving them tax relief giving them incentives to grow their businesses like PEC in Marton that makes 80 percent of the petrol pumps sold in this country and 50 percent of the petrol pumps sold in Australia—absolutely outstanding.The Government's focus is clearly on managing spending and the key top-down tool for this is operating allowances the Budget sets aside for discretionary use spending in each Budget. We are setting tight but realistic operating allowances in this Budget and we're going to stick to them. We're making a real difference—we are making a real difference.We've also got $3.4 billion for hospital and specialty services $2.2 billion for primary care and public health $1.7 billion for Pharmac—even more than that—which is fantastic and $24 million for Gumboot Friday which I have had a huge amount of response about. People are blown away by that and Mike King is a fantastic champion to lead that cause.Hon Tama Potaka: True story.SUZE REDMAYNE: True story. In terms of schools I've had a fantastic time visiting schools over the last couple of weeks—amazing. Taonui School—I was there yesterday talking to the kids who also came down to visit me in Parliament.James Meager: They doing structured literacy?SUZE REDMAYNE: They are doing structured literacy and they absolutely love it. Yeah they are doing it. We're stopping waste in this Budget.James Meager: Oh hear hear. About time.SUZE REDMAYNE: Yeah. We have massively blown the Budget over the last six years so Nicola Willis and her team went through line by line to stop spending. They found a lot of money that was being wasted and we've been able to apply that in different ways.We're also restoring law and order. And I can tell you on the streets of Feilding that has already started. We have police on the beach and we are also investing $651 million over four years to deliver 500 extra police officers. We're going to give them the tools that they need to do their job. Seeing those boys and girls on the beat in Feilding that's just the start and it's fantastic. We've also got $69 million to address youth offending including our military-style youth academies—the first one of which was launched last Saturday and gets underway soon.The other thing that I'm really proud and I know the finance Minister's really proud about is the social investment aspect of this Budget. It's something that was launched by Bill English a few years ago and Nicola Willis has taken up the mantle and she's incredibly proud of it and she's making a go of it. We know that we can make a huge difference with some of these kids and young families. It is worth investing in them now so that we don't have to pay in the future for the legal fees and prison costs. It's really important and it makes a difference. It's not just one individual we're looking after it's all the people that are around them all the people that support them.The Budget provides—which is also important in my electorate—$140 million to fund 1500 new social housing places delivered by community housing providers and that's outstanding. I met with one of those providers in Feilding yesterday and they've started off—they got some houses off the council put into a trust and they've managed that exceptionally well. And they're looking to grow and develop and build more and more houses in Feilding and perhaps even take it bigger.Rangitīkei as a proud rural electorate so many of the businesses big and small across our electorate depend on a buoyant economy. So growing the economy is vital but also looking after our farmers is incredibly important. And the numbers tell you—in the year ended June 2023 export receipts from our agricultural exports were $57 billion. This year it dropped to $54 billion. That makes a difference to New Zealand Inc. So we need to look after our farmers and give them the tools to get ahead and that's also what this Budget talks about. We're going to cut red tape and allow farmers to get back to doing what they do.I am incredibly proud of this Budget. I think we've done a great job for New Zealand. We set out and achieved what we said we were going to do: focusing on growing the economy restoring law and order and delivering better public services. That's exactly what this Budget does and I'm proud that it's doing it for Rangitīkei and doing it for New Zealand. Thank you Madam Speaker. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you. So the Minister of Finance the Hon Nicola Willis is present in the House and we call the Minister to give her reply to the debate.