McClay ToddHon TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua): Madam Speaker thank you. The National Party also supports this legislation and we do so because it's important that we can move on and people can have certainty.What I'd like to say though is it's clear to us that two things are required: an economic package to deal with the emergency—we've dealt with some of that in the previous bill when it comes to the exceptionally large amount of money at the disposal of the Government to spend in the coming months to support New Zealanders and then secondarily there will be a recovery package that's needed that will stretch over many years. In fact it may well be a decade or decades.This piece of legislation contains elements of both of those: some that will assist and help today others that actually won't take effect until much later and indeed won't have a significant impact upon businesses or the economy for quite some period of time. I give an example of this around building depreciation. It's a debate that the House has had over a period of time. In fact when we were in Government we took it away. Not everybody agreed. It now has been brought back. For some businesses that will be helpful but I caution that there will be very very few businesses in New Zealand that are actually going to have a profit in the coming years. Therefore it's not a matter of how much tax they're paying in as far as the Government's concerned; it's how much tax they're not paying because actually today what is needed is finding ways to keep them there: not keep the doors open but keep them so they exist so that as we come out of this they have to consider the recovery and actually there will be businesses there.There are things that will assist at the moment: provisional tax thresholds. Actually many of the small businesses around the country in my electorate are not paying tax this year and so they would be dealing with a provisional tax they'd have to pay based on last year's income. It's appropriate that that is being set aside. The use of money interest: well that's the same thing. There's detail here that for some in the community it will have a meaning.But what I did want to say is that we have moved so very quickly over the last week. Some of these things that the Government announced a week ago in the first part of the response to coronavirus could have been classified as business as usual" others were importantly about what was needed on the ground right then. As we go forward and we see more announcements around the emergency response they must be about helping mothers and fathers everyday New Zealanders businesses large and small to get through the coming weeks and the coming two or three months.When it comes to the rebuild package it can't be business as usual. It can't be the things that we would be doing anyway that we were all going to be campaigning on this year; they must be things that are going to rebuild the economy that give people confidence that allow businesses to actually employ again more quickly than they would otherwise to build some semblance of confidence in the economy so that people are actually able to get out of their homes and back to work as soon as the restrictions the shutdown is over.So I would implore the Government to say that whilst things have moved quickly and some of these measures today are not as important as they may have seemed a week ago—or ones that last week actually weren't important to the day are much more so. When it comes to the next stage of consideration of the House how we rebuild this economy and how we support businesses—because businesses have people in them who work and provide for their families—much much more will be needed from both sides of the House.The final thing I would say to the last speaker the Hon Tracey Martin—and it's not to quibble at all around the energy payment. That's of least importance possibly to the things we're dealing with here today but Ms Martin it doesn't matter whether it is the public that's receiving money from Government and spending or it's the Government spending itself it all ends up in the economy. It supports the economy and can help it grow. For the coming weeks and months the only thing that will support this economy is the money that the Government is spending and the money the Government is spending comes from the future hard work and earnings of everyday New Zealanders. It is important we support them in the coming weeks and months but we must get back as soon as we can to making sure—[Interruption] No no. I mean I'm being genuine here. I'm not quibbling with you. I'm just saying that actually whether it's the Government giving it or they're spending it themselves what we have to do once we get through this actually is ensure that we are spending taxpayers' money as carefully as we can.I'm not saying we're not doing that today—we're supporting this completely—but we must spend as carefully as we can because every time the Government spends money the taxpayer is going to have to pay this back and it's going to be many many decades before actually we get through the economic harm that COVID-19 has caused. This is nobody's fault—it's not the Government's it's not the Opposition's it's not the people that are losing their jobs—but when we get through the importance of the emergency response that all parts of this Parliament are supporting we will have an even bigger job to do in this House to make sure that we can help New Zealanders get back on their feet. Thank you."