Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: As we've traversed many, many times, this is a global phenomenon of inflation coming off the back of a global pandemic. What New Zealanders know is that we came through COVID better than most, and, in fact, the ASB themselves said in the report that was released yesterday, "The economy has weathered the Omicron outbreak with far less disruption than COVID outbreaks caused in 2020 and 2021." It is tough going for many businesses and households at the moment; that is why the Government is backing them.