MAUREEN PUGH (National): Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. I stand in opposition tonight to the Social Security (Subsequent Child Policy Removal) Amendment Bill. The National Party has made no secret that it was not going to support the bill, and simply because it was one that was introduced by the fifth National Government, under the Hon Paula Bennett, as part of the significant amount of welfare reforms that went on there. I take note of one of the comments that the previous speaker, the Hon Kelvin Davis, has just made regarding the effect of some of the National Party's policies in the previous National-led Government. They were world-renowned welfare reforms, and I pay great tribute to the Hon Bill English for his visionary stand in terms of the social investment approach that a lot of those policies were guided by. It's a shame to see legislation now unwinding some of that work. The reason that we are opposing this bill is because it simply makes it easier for people who have multiple children, on benefit, to stay on benefit, and that ultimately punishes those children—and I'll get into that in a little bit more time.