But we must also accelerate the recovery, and what we have seen and what all the economic indicators are showing is that nothing is as bad as those initial forecasts were harrowingly showing us they could be, that we have put people, we have put jobs, we have put jobs, and we have put jobs at the centre of everything that we have done. We were not prepared to have a stand-off approach, to put our hands in the air and say, "What will be will be." What we were prepared to do was make sure that we were looking out for our people and that we were investing in our long-term problems, we were investing in infrastructure, we were investing so we could keep New Zealanders in work. 