Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Thank you Madam Speaker. I want to start my contribution by acknowledging the difficulties that our farming communities are facing right throughout the Canterbury district. But I have another story to tell right from the heart of those farming districts and it comes from the little town of Leeston right in the heart of Selwyn district for which Nicola Grigg is the member. A community-led initiative in those districts established a te reo Māori course last night. The word went out and lo and behold the St David's Church in Leeston just this week was absolutely packed flowing out the door with members of the community. In spite of all the difficulties that they're facing at the moment folks from as far afield as Ashburton drove all the way to attend a te reo Māori course. What message does that send? The message sent is that there is a huge huge demand and huge interest from rural New Zealand in learning our Māori culture and in te reo Māori and I take great heart from that. I think the buttons that our Opposition are trying to push are not working and it's evidenced right from the communities that they purport to represent. I want to acknowledge those good people because it wasn't overflowing with Māori in that St David's Church; far from it. These were heartland farming folks from across all of those affected districts. So I just want to acknowledge them and it just goes to show that our Government's goal our aspirational goal of having 1 million te reo Māori speaking Kiwis by 2040 is a real possibility. I take great hope from that. We are reinforcing that through our investments in this Budget.But I want to just focus on the work that we are doing as a Government. We are focused on our recovery from COVID-19. And I want to acknowledge the work that our Minister for Trade and Export Growth the Hon Damien O'Connor is doing not only rebuilding our economy but ensuring that we are increasing our export trade opportunities across the globe. Isn't that great? Isn't it great that we have achieved—our primary sector in the face of a global pandemic—$48 billion in export revenue just last year? I want to congratulate all of those involved in our primary sectors many of whom are based around the Māori economy as well within that big figure. That just goes to show the right decisions that we have made as a Government but that work is continuing. It must continue. We must ensure that our trade policy is delivering for all New Zealanders. That's why our Government has our Trade for All agenda. It's all about having higher value goods and services protecting the environment underpinning high quality productive investments and supporting our regions to grow. And it's all about ensuring that New Zealand shares our economic growth widely. So it's exciting the work that we're doing and I want to acknowledge the Minister Damien O'Connor who will be venturing overseas to ensure that we make good progress on free-trade agreements—free-trade agreements (FTAs) that are vital to increasing our export growth and markets.Critical work is now continuing on the UK FTA for which Minister O'Connor will be travelling in-market to further our case and also with the EU FTA. These are really important trade agreements for our country. The UK is our sixth largest export market. Our modelling shows that we will be able to increase by up to a billion dollars within 10 years of concluding that deal. But most importantly we want to ensure that we won't sacrifice quality for pace. We want to ensure that we have high quality free-trade agreements in place. I want to acknowledge all the work undertaken by the officials within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the expert work that they are doing in the UK in the EU and right across in furthering our Trade for All agenda.There's so much that is going on within our Government. I want to acknowledge the partnerships that we as a Government are doing with Māori. We are seeing it in the housing area we are seeing it in the health area through our Budget and we are also seeing it in fast moving areas like launching rockets from the same Selwyn district right by Lake Ellesmere in partnership with Ngāi Tahu. We are moving and we are reaching for the stars.