Hon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Social Development and Employment): All of us in this House would like to see the elimination of poverty and hardship in Aotearoa, but every Government understands that there are no overnight solutions to achieving that. As a Government, we've been clear about our commitment to addressing income adequacy for those in work and those on the welfare system. But more than that, we have made significant progress in this area. We are the first Government to measure child poverty and hold ourselves accountable to addressing it. In our first 100 days last term, we invested $5.5 billion into our Families Package to boost the income of low- and middle-income families. We have since lifted main benefits and indexed them to wages, raised abatement thresholds, and invested significantly into supporting people into work. We know we have much more to do, but we are very much committed to doing the work. We have a programme of work which we are conducting on the back of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group's report. New steps will come out of this work, as outlined in the Cabinet paper, and any announcements will be made in due course.