But what of the Government's response? It was woeful. The Government's response has left we Cantabrians asking: what does it take for the Minister to declare a large-scale adverse event? On day one, I asked him to declare it. It took him a few days. Even then, it was only a medium-scale adverse event. There are areas in Canterbury where flood damage is as bad as it gets. There is literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage per property, much of which is uninsurable. But the Government—what did it turn up with? A pitiful $500,000 for New Zealand's most productive sector and our most productive region. There is a playground outside this House that the Government spent more money on; $530,000 on a playground. What message does that send to our farmers who are flogging their guts out in pouring rain up to their knees in mud? What sort of message does it send to them? Within a day of making that announcement, what does the Government then go out and say? I'll tell you what it said. It's going to spend $800 million on a cycleway across the Auckland Harbour Bridge, right at the time the Ashburton Bridge is buckling and down to one-way and light traffic only. Talk about being tone deaf and out of touch.