I relate the impact of this proposed policy change on the wonderful parents in my electorate of Invercargill who I know had children while on benefits, and I watched how they transitioned away from dependency into employment. They became wonderful role models, and the impact and the responsibility that was transferred to their children was absolutely tangible. I also look to my previous role at Southern Institute of Technology, where there were many second-chance learners, and the difference in those people, often young parents, who were gaining qualifications to gain employment, and the aspirations they had and the changes you could see in the pride that they had as they progressed through. So I see this policy as condescending to those people whom I have watched pull themselves off the benefit, transitioning into employment through qualifications and becoming wonderful role models for their children. 