So, faced with that, the Minister of Finance has different approaches he can take to reducing our debt. He can allow higher inflation to increase the tax revenues to reduce the real value of debt and he can keep on spending into the future. What we on this side of the House say is in a time when people are facing a cost of living that is actively daily, weekly, diminishing the choices they can make for themselves and their families in the future, the Government has a solemn responsibility to do better with the spending it's doing and to ensure that New Zealanders can have more of their own money back. 