BARBARA EDMONDS (Labour—Mana): Thank you, Mr Speaker. It's a privilege, as the chairperson of the Finance and Expenditure Committee, who reviewed the Supplementary Estimates bill, to be able to take a call in the House. I really wanted to be able to back up the Minister of Finance in his comments around the importance of these particular two bills. They are quite dry, and I accept that—you know, the titles are very dry and they seem like very technical bills, but actually they're quite important in the respect that, you can't spend money as a Government unless you have the authority of this Parliament; in the same way you cannot tax without the authority of Parliament, you cannot spend money.