Radhakrishnan PriyancaPRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to take a short call as well on the Social Security (Winter Energy Payment) Amendment Bill. Frankly I'm not too sure what members opposite are going on about. They're so impassioned that they speak for two minutes as well! But anyway it is just a technical bill.Kieran McAnulty: It's such an outrage!PRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN: I know—so much outrage! Anyway it is a technical bill. Basically all this amendment bill does is tweak the Social Security Act 2018 to ensure that those who fall into two specific categories are able to be paid the winter energy payment as the policy intended.As we've heard before by the Minister the Hon Tracey Martin as well this is just a technical drafting error. What we're doing here today is speaking at the first reading of this bill so that we can amend that and ensure that for everyone who deserves to be paid the winter energy payment—and in fact is being paid the winter energy payment—we can make sure that we do so appropriately and properly. So anyway that's what this bill does. It's a very straightforward bill.It's a technical bill but actually at the heart of it lies people and that's the point that I want to make in today's contribution: the people—about one million of them—who have been affected or whose lives have been improved by the Families Package that this Government passed at the end of 2017 which was a targeted payment. It was actually part of the Government's 100-day plan. It provides targeted social assistance to improve the lives of people to improve the incomes of families with children who earn low to middle incomes. Part of that package was the winter energy payment and I know that many of us like I have have sat with people: people on a main benefit people getting the NZ superannuation those on a veterans pension older New Zealanders who can't afford to pay for heating people whose living rooms I've sat in whom I've spoken to who have said to me that they put on jackets that they put on sweaters and cardigans because they can't afford to turn their heating on. Those are the people that we're talking about today when we talk about this little straightforward bill that will actually ensure that those who need to get this payment do get the payment that they deserve in a way that is lawful. That's all that this bill does.Now clients can't get the winter energy payment if they don't get a main benefit NZ super or veterans pension; if they get an overseas pension; if they already get the State-sponsored residential care subsidy or the support subsidy; or if they live overseas. But there are two groups of people who should be getting this winter energy payment based on the policy intent of it who have been and now we're just tweaking the legislation to make sure that they do so in a way that is lawful.I think the Minister the Hon Peeni Henare outlined the two groups of people who will be getting this payment and that's basically those who have been absent from New Zealand. If they've been away for longer than four weeks at any one time over the winter period then they get the payment for the first four weeks and that just aligns this particular subsidy with others like the accommodation supplement as well. The other group of course are those who receive Government funding for long-term residential care or residential care services but who aren't eligible for the residential care subsidy or the support subsidy.That's really all that this bill does. I too don't understand why members opposite feel the need to dramatise this so much. It's not about an entire long Supplementary Order Paper or anything like that; it's just a technical drafting error. This will put that right and make sure that we do right by everyone who is eligible to receive this benefit. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker.