RICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I rise to speak on the second reading of the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income (Fair Residency) Amendment Bill. As the Green Party's immigration and senior citizens portfolio holder, it comes with great shame that we cannot in good conscience support the bill, for several reasons. But I, firstly, want to start by acknowledging the contributions of previous speakers who talked at length about the history of our superannuation scheme and the important contributions it actually has made over the years to reduce poverty rates amongst our senior citizens. It is a scheme that, while many members have discussed the issue of sustainability, is critical to ensure that our low-income whānau who reach their twilight years have a safety net for them to subsist. And what has been really concerning over the past few years is the increasing rates of hardship amongst our senior citizens—in fact, more of our senior citizens are now requiring food grants from Work and Income to survive, and the rate of senior citizens requiring food grants from Work and Income has gone up by 50 percent between 2014 and 2019. That is something that is concerning and should be of concern to all of us. I don't think we want to see our senior citizens in hardship growing.