So the Minister of Finance talked about the Budget priority being securing our recovery. Well, for a third of New Zealand's population, they're in the midst of a COVID level 4 lockdown; there ain't no sign of recovery any time soon, and for many businesses, households, and communities, we're going backwards fast. We're definitely not going forward, we're definitely not securing our recovery, so it makes a bit of a mockery of the title of this Budget. What happened? What happened is the Labour Government became complacent—quite happy to crow internationally that New Zealand had this beaten and, unfortunately, started to use the $50 billion COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund to spend that money on all sorts of projects. Many of them—far too many of them—had zero to do with COVID. So here we are, and, as my colleague has quite rightly said—he predicted it—no one was willing to accept the bet that the Government would be asking the Parliament for more money: another $24 billion. I put that down to a lack of preparation, a lack of planning, and a lack of vaccination. It's quite simple. It is not rocket science why we are here and why there's another $24 billion that this Government is asking New Zealand taxpayers to get from their pockets, at a time that they're already struggling.