Hon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO (Associate Minister of Health)(Pacific Peoples): Budget 2022 will deliver 1,900 new health workers and will support 2,700 more students into training programmes through a $76 million investment to continue to grow the Māori and Pacific health workforce. Specific funding of $37 million over four years for the Pacific health workforce is critical for building a more diverse and sustainable pathway into health for Pacific people, and it will ensure that as our health workforce grows, it reflects also the communities it serves with a workforce that values Māori and Pacific languages and cultural intelligence, and ensures economic security for our Pacific communities in good and bad times. Simply put, this approach is a targeted Pacific—by Pacific, for Pacific—approach, and something, as we learnt during COVID, which directly accelerated positive COVID vaccination rates for Pacific peoples and kept everyone safe.