I want to start my Budget appropriation speech by just providing a bit of context in terms of looking at where we were as a country earlier this year, because I think it is important, and we recognise the significant impact of COVID, but we must not shy away from what the state of play was before COVID. So let's just have a look at some of that. So the jobseeker benefit, which most would understand as "the dole"—we had 30,000 additional New Zealanders on the jobseeker benefit since this Government came into office. Emergency housing grants: now this is a really interesting one, because this is from a Government who said that every dollar—when they were in Opposition—on emergency housing grants was a waste of money and they would fix it with their comprehensive housing plan. Well, guess what? Guess what? In the quarter before COVID, there was $79 million in emergency housing grants—three times as many as when they came in; four times as much money being spent on emergency housing grants; over 18,000 people on the social housing register. That's more than three times the number two years earlier. And do you know what's worse, in terms of housing? This is a Government who said, in Opposition, that they would fix the housing crisis—they would fix it; they had a comprehensive housing plan—over 200 days someone is waiting if they're on the social housing register.