Over successive Governments, we have continued to see people kept in poverty, kept living below the line, not able to make ends meet because of the decisions that powerful people, like those of us in this House, have far too often made that have kept people struggling for what should all be guaranteed, minimum, basic, fundamental human rights, what should be a guaranteed minimum level of humanity that we, as a country, agree to share collectively with all of the people of Aotearoa. The benefits in this country, in our social safety net, have been kept so low for so long that this has created intergenerational poverty and hardship and, as importantly, has severed relationships and trust with democratic processes, with engagements with agencies, with political elected representatives, because people lose their faith and trust in a system which is not seen to uphold their needs and their aspirations of basic care at all.