And what's worse, we've seen a dramatic increase in the length of time that people are staying on benefit. So for the jobseeker benefit, previously called the dole, there's been a 59 percent increase in the number of people who are on it for more than a year, at the very same time we have record levels of unemployment—something doesn't add up—and at the very same time that just about every second business you walk past, whether it's a supermarket, whether it's a manufacturing plant, is advertising for jobs with posters. Go through the Hawke's Bay, as I did with the leader a couple of weeks ago. It was astounding—quite shocking, in fact—just how many signs there were with businesses desperate for workers. So it doesn't add up, Prime Minister. It's clearly a failure of the welfare system to have a 59 percent increase in the number of people on the jobseeker benefit who've been stuck there for more than a year. Because the sad, hard facts are, the longer you are on a benefit and disconnected from employment the harder it is to connect. 