Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN (Prime Minister): I do stand by the statement. I also said, "The Opposition has proposed cuts to the top tax rate and getting rid of policies to help first-home buyers. We, on the other hand, have worked consistently to increase focused support for low and middle income earners. That's why we've overseen a $5 increase in the minimum wage, benefiting around 300,000 workers. We've increased Working for Families … [which] will make around 346,000 families better off by an average of $20 each a week. We created the winter energy payment, starting again from 1 May, benefiting over a million New Zealanders during the winter months. We've made the largest across the board increases in benefit incomes since the 1940s, and we've increased the pay of new police officers by 19 percent since 2017, 16 percent for primary teachers, and 21 percent for new nurses." Our Government is choosing to target support to those on low and middle incomes who need help the most through raising wages and increasing support. Families earning between $40,000 and $70,000 will benefit by an average of $21 per week through our proposed increase in the family tax credit rather than the Opposition's proposal to cut taxes for property speculators and the highest earners.