Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): It became clear from the very earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic that there were no costless decisions facing any Government in the world. In New Zealand, as we looked around the world and we saw the increasing hospitalisations and death rates in other countries, the Government decided quickly that we needed to move against that. That meant investing significant sums of money to support New Zealanders to stay home, to be able to stay attached to their jobs. At no point in this process did we take any of those decisions lightly.