Hon DAVID PARKER: As I have said on a number of occasions, we'll never know the exact number of people who were paid the payment. We do know that the New Zealand tax data is very robust. I have personally said I think the number of wrong payments will be around 1 percent, and I have repeatedly said to the House, which I think is correct, that the alternative application system for 2 million people would have cost a lot more than the money saved; the 1.3 million people who received a cost of living payment this week would not have received it; and the policy is better than the alternatives of tax cuts for CEOs and overseas landlords.