Hon CARMEL SEPULONI: The member for Northcote will be pleased to know that main benefit receipt fell by 10.2 percent in two North Shore local board areas, Kaipātiki and Devonport-Takupuna, in the year to 2021. This 10.2 percent fall for North Shore was stronger than the Auckland region as a whole, for which main benefit receipt fell by 5.9 percent. This is thanks to a strong local labour market, Government interventions and investments—and is a good sign of the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) and the economy doing what it needed to do following the pandemic.