Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: The new wage subsidy scheme helps cushion the blow to households and businesses while public health measures take effect. We have always said that the best economic response is a public health response. By supporting businesses and keeping workers attached to their jobs, we can facilitate the necessary current restrictions so that once the virus is under control again, the economy is able to get back up and running quickly and bounce back strongly. We've seen this play out before in the positive data for June and July when we did operate under lower restrictions after the lockdown. This includes the New Zealand Activity Index and the BNZ-BusinessNZ Performance of Manufacturing Index and the BNZ-BusinessNZ Performance of Services Index. We are once again going hard and early in our economic response as in our health response so that New Zealand is well placed to recover quickly from this particular outbreak.