Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister of Revenue): As has already been well traversed in question time over a number of days in this House, the Government faced a choice. Given that we wanted to give some extra support to people who were facing cost of living pressures—bearing in mind that we were already assisting with decreases in road-user charges and excise duty on petrol as well as our halving of public transport fares—we thought something additional was necessary. One of the criticisms that's been made by Opposition parties is that most of the support that the Government has offered through the likes of the winter energy payment has gone to households in receipt of Government transfers. We thought there was something in that, and we wanted to give some income support to modest to middle income earners who weren't in receipt of Government assistance. 