This is a Government that has overseen spending blowouts and has a lack of targets for its expenditure and what they will achieve. It has shown an inability to deliver and get results,  and poor prioritisation of the public purse. It has been reactive and panicked when it comes to dealing with substantive issues, and it has put in place short-term thinking where long-term responses are required. The context in which these enormous amounts of money are being spent is a cost of living crisis. Prices in New Zealand today are running laps around wages. Inflation is at a 30-year high. Groceries, petrol, rents, childcare fees are all climbing by the week, and New Zealanders' wages are simply not keeping up. Every week, New Zealanders are working harder to go backwards. That is the economic context we are in, and yet you would not know it from the speech we just heard from the Minister of Finance, who essentially said, "All is rosy. All is fine. Let's go on a big spend-up, and can I also have $30 billion in my back pocket in imprest supply in case I need a slush fund later?"