Radhakrishnan Priyanca; Rurawhe AdrianHon PRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN (Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector): Literally the one thing I agreed with from that member who just resumed her seat Nicola Willis from the rant that we heard was the fact that times are tough. I don't think anyone would disagree that things have been difficult for the past few years for New Zealanders and for us globally. But what we've always said as the Government on this side of the House is that while many of the drivers of that might sit offshore overseas and outside of the purview of us as a Government what we will continue to do is work to mitigate the impact of that on New Zealanders. And that is what we have consistently done. We've done a fair bit of work to tackle the cost of living increases that people are seeing but we're also focusing on the rebuild—rebuilding more resilient communities. I want to touch briefly on both the physical and the social infrastructure rebuild that we've been investing in and focusing on. In addition to our $71 billion infrastructure plan over the next five years Budget 2023 set aside $6 billion extra for strategic investments as part of our National Resilience Plan. It is undeniable that we've seen both the hangover the economic hangover of the COVID pandemic but more recently the severe weather events that we've seen the flooding in Auckland plus the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle. We must ensure that we build back better in the face of that. That includes things like futureproofing rail roads and local infrastructure that was wiped out by the wet weather events and setting straight our telecommunications and electricity transmission infrastructure. We don't say it lightly when we say we are the Government of infrastructure and delivery. For example just look at housing. I have spoken ad nauseam in this House to questions from members opposite—a certain member opposite—on public housing and our record there both the housing crisis that we inherited when the then National Government was in denial that a crisis even was what we were experiencing and since then since we've taken office we've delivered a record number. We've delivered 12198 public homes. Over 10000 of those are brand new builds. I remember speaking to a young woman who was a teacher aide at the time in my electorate of Maungakiekie who had come back from Australia to raise her young family here. She was wanting to buy a house was wanting to get into homeownership and was living temporarily she thought with her family. She ended up living in a three-bedroom house with 14 others. This was with the National Government at the time who did not build housing. In fact one in seven of the public homes that we have in New Zealand today have been added in the last five years. This is an incredible achievement. Alongside that we've increased transitional housing by 4223 net places since October 2017. If that side of the House when they were in Government had actually continued to build houses instead of leaving us 1500 public homes fewer than when they took office there would actually be over 21000 new State houses accounting for 85 percent of people on the current waiting list—85 percent. This could have been avoided; yet we've been building our way out of the crisis that we were left. I also want to touch quickly on a couple of initiatives in Budget 2023 that speak to our social infrastructure. That is policies that will directly benefit Kiwis feeling the pressure of increased costs of living: extending 20 hours' free early childhood education to two-year-olds; the scrapping of the $5 prescription co-payment—I visited a local pharmacy in my electorate over the recent recess and he told me that just in the year just in terms of what he had counted he had absorbed $15000 because of families who couldn't afford to pay for their prescriptions and pick up the medication that they needed. Our local pharmacies will no longer have to do that because of the investments by this Government. That side of the House as Grant Robertson said their tagline should absolutely be Backtracking for New Zealand". Their alignment with ACT will see us not have equitable services for our various communities because that is ACT's policy. We will lose the winter energy payment that so many have benefited from. Food in schools—many schools in my electorate are worried that they will lose the food in schools if that side of the House becomes Government after October this year because frankly they will take us backwards into the crises the multiple crises that we inherited back in 2017. I'm proud of our Government.SPEAKER: The member's time has expired."