Dr DEBORAH RUSSELL (Labour—New Lynn): I want to pick up on something which the speaker immediately before me, Andrew Bayly, has said. He said that we have never before seen spending on this scale. He's correct. We have never before seen Governments having to spend on this scale. I say "Governments" because it's Governments around the world. Of course, Governments around the world, including our Government, are spending on this scale because we are facing a situation which we have never seen before. We are facing the extraordinary situation of a global pandemic, and not just a pandemic like the previous great one that we experienced, the 1918 influenza commonly known as the Spanish flu. This is an illness different in nature from that, but it is still just an illness. The difference is our interconnected world. The difference is the speed with which this virus has spread around the world, affecting virtually every nation. It is an extraordinary situation and it has called for an extraordinary response by our Government and by Governments everywhere. So our Government has, with courage, taken the steps to do the best we can for New Zealand in this time.