Russell DeborahDr DEBORAH RUSSELL (Labour—New Lynn): This is actually a highly technical bill. It is actually designed to ensure that we have ticked all the boxes and gotten all the words correct with allocating money for expenditure partly for the past year but also for the future year. I think something that demonstrates just how technical this bill is comes from the Supplementary Estimates for Vote PCE or Vote Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment where if someone takes the time to actually read the document they'll see that $1000 is allocated—an extra $1000—and carefully recorded as a 1" in the correct column. I think what this demonstrates is the care and attention which our public servants bring to the jobs that they do to ensure that we actually get all the money right that we record it properly that we ensure that it has been properly endorsed by Parliament. So as I open with these few words I would like to pay tribute to the public servants who have done all the work behind the numbers on this Budget in getting them all together. I think it's very important that we acknowledge their work because Government doesn't happen just in this room. It doesn't happen just in the Beehive. It also happens with the work from our public servants and I commend them for what they do.I wish to address some of the issues that have been raised by other speakers in this debate. In particular I want to think about the strength of the economy. Again we can see some of this by looking at some of the actual appropriations that are sitting in these documents that have been so well prepared for us by our public servants. In particular I'm looking at extra appropriations for child support payments and decreased appropriations for the family tax credit. They actually point to increased strength in our labour markets that people are getting more and better-paying jobs because the appropriation for child support payments has changed due to stronger-than-forecast labour market growth. It means that if you've got an improved labour market then their non-custodial parents are receiving more money and quite appropriately more of that money is being passed on to their families.So that actually demonstrates through looking behind the numbers the increased strength in our labour market. Again sitting in this Budget in these appropriations with respect to the family tax credit as people's incomes go up from their employers then the amount they receive in family tax credits does go down. So if the amount being received via family tax credits is going down it does indicate increased wages increased workforce a stronger labour market. So those numbers indicate something very very important about our economy and digging into them what we see there is a greatly strengthened labour market under this Government.Turning to some of the issues raised by the previous speaker I really want to address some of the issues raised by Mr Ian McKelvie who has a great deal of affection for his electorate as we all do for our electorates. But he also has a huge affection for rural New Zealand. As someone who came from rural New Zealand myself as a child I retain a great deal of affection for it too and I understand the worries that rural communities have about the increased numbers of trees and what that might do to rural communities. The question for the Opposition however is do they wish to interfere in sales between willing buyers and willing sellers? I think that needs to be addressed. Now we do need to think about what is going on in those rural communities but there are more ramifications than just a wall of trees.Of course those trees are going to be critically important because of climate change and I think that is one of the critical issues that this Government's Budget has started to address. Again in the Supplementary Estimates we see more money being allocated to advice around climate change to actually ensuring that we do start to take action with respect to climate change. That is an action that we all ought to be concerned with and that this Government is attempting to do in a fair and just manner—none of the outrageously rapid changes of the 1980s; instead a fair and just transition so that our children may live in a carbon-neutral world. Thank you Madam Speaker."