Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. I'm delighted to be able to stand and I'm so proud to speak in support of this year's Budget. Can I congratulate our Minister of Finance Grant Robertson on an absolutely splendid job that he's done because Māori are moving forward under this Budget.I want to endorse the remarks from my colleague the Hon Willie Jackson someone who has devoted his life to working among our people. We know that this Budget does deliver. We're not quibbling around little bits of money that some people are saying we're giving here or there; we're doing the big things in this Government and this is what we can do when we're in Government. We're looking across the whole range of services. We're healing the deficits and the underfunding and the damage that has been done after nine years. So that's why I'm really pleased to be able to stand in support of this Budget because we are laying the foundations we are putting things right we're driving those investments into the areas that need them most and Māori whānau are recipients are beneficiaries of this Budget in a major sense.Can I just give us some examples. We are investing through our Families Package our Best Start payments for our pēpi—our babies—and our winter energy payments. That's going to be $1.2 billion going directly into Māori households directly into those households over the next four years. That's going to make a huge difference. On average that's around $75 per week extra that will be going into those households and we know how they've been struggling after the last nine years under that previous Government. We're making investments right across the board in our health and education sector and also Māori are benefiting from housing. We're supplementing the massive work that we're doing in KiwiBuild and we're supplementing that with our Papakāinga housing as well. Whakamahana—we're warming up our land through our regional provincial fund spearheaded by the honourable matua Shane Jones which is benefiting our Māori interests in the regions and our Māori land owners in addition to the work that the Hon Nanaia Mahuta is doing in that area. We're doing the Papakāinga housing. We are providing pathways for our rangatahi.The previous speaker Alastair Scott spoke about our first-year free tertiary education. I was in Otago University. There are 2000 Māori students at Otago University and many of them—a bulk of them—are first years who have benefited from our policy. That is a major chunk—2000 Māori students—so that needs to be celebrated. So we are doing great things in our Government and I just want to re-emphasise the point that we are about doing the big things. We're not about a few million here to Te Puni Kōkiri that mostly goes into the pockets of contractors and consultants; we're about driving resources into communities into whānau directly helping them out through the likes of our Families Package and the winter payments.Can I just say there are 17000 Māori babies born every year and we celebrate that. Those families—those babies and their parents—will directly benefit from the tax credits that we are doing through our Best Start payments. Now that's a real difference that will be made to all of those families not to mention the winter energy payments. It's making a huge difference. So we mustn't quibble. This is a great Budget. It's doing some wonderful things right across the board.Now we know we can't fix all the problems overnight. We can't fix them overnight but this Budget is laying the foundations for the start that we are doing to repair the social infrastructure of our country and we've made huge strides in doing that in this Budget. More work will be happening I can assure you. We've got many years of Budgets to come whereby we will be doing much more targeted and focused efforts and resources and initiatives to further build on the work that we're doing. There's a Māori proverb and if I can adjust it slightly it goes like this: mā whero mā pango mā kākāriki ka oti ai te mahi—with red with black and with green the work will be done and we will get the work done. Kia ora tātau.