Now, one simple solution would have been to adopt the 2019 Government's Welfare Expert Advisory Group recommendations. It didn't, and now two years of COVID has exasperated these cruel hardships, and whānau who may have been keeping their heads above water are now caught in the tide of disparity. And please stop the peacocking, Minister Davis; stop acting as if the Government saved this nation from COVID. So you should be funding Māori response efforts—they saved your nono and are our Government Tiriti partners. Stop looking for praise for doing what should have been done. It's Māori faces that were on the front line, still is, and has always been. It's Māori faces that make up essential workers. It's Māori faces that make up Hauora, Whānau Ora. When we look at this, it's Māori faces that should also be receiving the recovery from COVID investment. Five dollars for butter from a cow on our whenua; kai, housing, fuel from our whenua, no increased income, rising inflation—undeniably, our people are hurting. 