The last two years, we've seen a huge wealth transfer from the poor to the rich. As economist Bernard Hickey has reported, the Government's COVID policies made the rich $952 billion richer, while the poor were forced $400 million further into debt to the Government. Low-income whānau now need more than twice as many food parcels as they did before COVID, and I see on the ground the whānau choosing to travel to town to get groceries and not another trip to attend doctors, specialist appointments, or vaccination. The Leader of the Opposition claims to care about the cost of living, while at the same time proposes to make this wealth transfer even worse through his new tax cuts for the rich policy. Prime Minister, e te Pirimia, it is absolutely a cost of living crisis that will create a pandemic of poverty. 