Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): I've received a steady stream of advice from many sources about the economic impact on New Zealand businesses under the alert levels, actually, since March last year but also since 18 August. I would test the Speaker's patience if I listed each piece of that advice, but to give the member a flavour of what I've been receiving: underpinning all of this has been the continued advice that New Zealand's alert level system has helped us maintain one of the strongest economies in the world throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with strong economic growth, low unemployment, and lower than expected debt. Just today, Statistics New Zealand released data showing the number of jobs in the economy rose by nearly 16,000, or 0.7 percent, across August. The advice we get continues to back our strategy since the start of COVID-19 that the best economic response is a strong public health response.