DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you, Mr Speaker. There's been a lot of commentary about my good friend the Hon Ruth Richardson and her Budget of 1991, and I have to say, given her venerated status—one of New Zealand's most decisive and effective finance Ministers; first and still our only female finance Minister, but unable to speak in the House now—that she's made a few replies, which I thought the House might like to hear. She says that Grant Robertson's comments were a "predictable cheap shot, further reinforcing my point that the budget expenditure choices are driven more by politics than economics." She goes on to say, "My Budget was driven by a desire to lift economic growth and to make employment attractive. Grant Robertson's Budget is overtly driven by politics and the desire to pay off Labour supporters."—and ain't that the truth.