New Zealand communities are in a cost of living crisis and what they wanted from this Budget was hope. They wanted a credible pathway out and they wanted reassurance that while the world is in some turmoil, they can rely on the New Zealand Government to be careful, to be disciplined, to be prudent. Instead, what did the Minister of Finance offer them? He has responded with the biggest Budget spend-up in New Zealand history. It's worth me stepping through just how big the spending is, because we knew it would be the biggest ever at $6 billion, but what we didn't expect was the add-ons. 