Malo Lava and thank you all for joining me once again!

Ahead of the rollout of our government's budget I am pleased to announce the creation of a 30 Million dollar Childhood Oral health programme centered around providing the best possible care and resources for our tamariki. As we have demonstrated over our term in office this government is one which prides itself on providing the best possible healthcare to all Kiwi's so that they may live safe and fulfilling lives. I am a firm believer that good dental hygiene and practice is ingrained by good habits at an early age, and I'm happy to have a programme that by our estimates will boost the funding for childhood dental services by 30% The crux of this policy centers on providing children with a dental health pack, educating them on the benefits of maintaining good oral health, providing funding for a free fluoride varnish and a supervised brushing programme. Supervised brushing being directed and led by teachers at school, to demonstrate effective techniques and explaining the importance of frequent and proper maintenance of dental hygiene. With such long dental waitlists as a result of previous Labour mismanagement, it is on this Government and my Ministry to rectify these mistakes and I promise that we will!

Fa'afetai Lava,

And thank You all for joining me today.