Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: Indeed, thank you very much. I thought it might be helpful at the outset of the consideration of the Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) that I explain clearly what it does. In almost all years, once Cabinet has decided in early- to mid-April the amounts to be included in the Estimates for the year about to start and the Supplementary Estimates for the year about to end, there is a Budget moratorium from then until Budget day where no further decisions with financial implications are made. This ensures that the Budget documents presented to the House on Budget day reflect all of the decisions that Ministers have made. This year, with a need for a timely and ongoing response to COVID-19, it was not possible to have a Budget moratorium. This has happened once before in the time that I've been in this House, and that was immediately following the Canterbury earthquakes when a similar situation befell the Government where there was a need to make decisions in what would normally have been the Budget moratorium period; the same occurred this year because of COVID-19.