Hon SIMON BRIDGES (National—Tauranga): Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's a great pleasure to speak on this and, as is customary, really to offer a few thoughts about the Budget—about, actually, the, I suppose you'd call it, "special" Budget that followed, where $52 billion - odd was spent by the Government—and thoughts from me and, I'm sure, Opposition colleagues about the issues they present. If I can offer a defence of my unsuccessful time as leader: when I gave speeches at both the Budget and on the $52 billion spend following that, I made a number of criticisms and critiques of the Government, and I think actually they've aged well. Those criticisms have been proven right. Where I made clear that the wage subsidy was defective, quite quickly after, actually, Grant Robertson, to his credit, made changes to the policies, and the Opposition, in that regard, made what the Government has done stronger, better, more fit for purpose. If there's a theme, for me, on what we've seen over these three years and in the appropriations estimates through the Budget process, it really is simply this: this Government ultimately, after the kind words, the good words, the decent words are finished, doesn't have serious policies and plans that they can implement for New Zealand.