Hon Dr NICK SMITH (National—Nelson): I want to highlight in this Budget debate how this Government is unnecessarily costing New Zealanders their jobs, because where I agree with Mr Fletcher Tabuteau is this Budget and the upcoming election is all about jobs. When I first came to this Parliament, unemployment was 10 percent. Can I tell you, as a constituency MP, the cost of that level of unemployment is horrific on the communities that each of us represent. I'm proud of the record in the 1990s when we got unemployment down from 10 percent to 4 percent, and I'm equally proud of the effort in the last decade. Here are the numbers for the members opposite: every year from 2010 to 2017, the number of people that were unemployed in New Zealand came down—it came all the way down to a level of 124,000 in late 2017.