Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Minister of Foreign Affairs): I want to acknowledge the leadership of the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, who, at the beginning of the COVID outbreak, said that "the best economic response is a health response." Time and time again, albeit so difficult, in these complex challenges of dealing with a global pandemic, we now have the opportunity to support our Minister of Finance, who has delivered a balanced Budget in the key areas that will make a significant difference to New Zealanders who are feeling the impacts of a war in Russia; a global pandemic, continuing to respond to that; growing inflation; constrained supply chains; and, importantly for New Zealanders, the everyday impacts on cost of living. This is a Budget that addresses the issues of now, such as cost of living, while responding to some of the significant longer challenges that New Zealand must address.