Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister of Revenue): I agree with the member that we should be having a gap between the earnings of people who are in work compared with those on benefits. It's always difficult at the margins, but that's what this bill attempts to remedy. The member is correct. It does it in numeric terms rather than percentage terms, but in terms of the rate at which wages are meant to grow relative to inflation, I'd refer the member to page 139 of Volume B.3 of the Budget Estimates, where it shows wages rising ahead of inflation. Benefits are, of course, indexed to wage rate growth, so whilst they will both increase by the same percentage, if wages go up by more than the Consumers Price Index, then so will benefits. The same percentage increase for both results in the gap between wages and benefits growing over time. So I think the member's concern that there is a diminishing incentive to work, if that was his concern, should be allayed by that fact.