Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): While the vast bulk of the Budget remains for Budget day, as is the tradition of Governments of the past there have been some early announcements. Our plan to combat the global COVID-19 pandemic has three stages: respond, recover, and rebuild. I've announced that Budget 2020 will focus on laying the groundwork for the recover and rebuild stages. It will strengthen our public services and provide significant investments to get New Zealanders back to work and to begin tackling some of our long-term economic challenges. These are necessary investments, given the extremely difficult global and domestic economic outlook that is ahead of us. This will change our fiscal outlook substantially and, as I have said before, with higher debt and deficits for an extended period, I remain committed to managing our books carefully and responsibly. And, right now, being responsible means investing money to support our people, our businesses, and our communities to get through this and to rebuild.