Putting this Budget together required a very careful balance of three things. The first of those is: supporting New Zealanders in the here and now, because the global inflation spike that we are seeing is affecting New Zealanders when they go to the supermarket and when they're at the petrol pump. What this Government has done is respond with practical measures that actually address the issues where inflation is hitting and the causes of inflation, not the things we've heard from the other side of the House: the untargeted ideas that they have about tax cuts for those who earn more than $180,000, or somehow the idea that we could cut health spending and that would lower prices at the supermarket. That is the logic that we are hearing from the National Party. 