Sepuloni CarmelHon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Social Development and Employment): OK it seems like a good idea to cluster them up but then you cluster them up and then you've got 20 questions to answer in one go. I'll give it a go. I'll start with the most recent one. Just with regards to funding for disability support services that the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) does fund I have to say that when we came into Government in 2017 for nine years just about all of the social sector services that were funded by MSD had not received any increase whatsoever. We then got in and then have year on year increased the funding to all of our social services particularly I will say with a focus on family and sexual violence services in particular. But if we look at things like budgeting services not only did they get a significant baseline increase but also COVID-related funding. Our disability services as well have received funding increases. Sad to hear that you're saying that so many of the day programmes have closed down. I will say that we have attempted to inject funding year on year but it's been very hard to make up for the underfunding that was experienced under nine years of the previous Government.With respect to the question that came from the ACT Party on the amount of money that is going to the job seeker benefit I think in particular I think that the member is including job seeker health and disability as well as job seeker work-ready which is how you get those numbers. I think I've already talked about what we've endured over the last year and a half and why that's led to a certain increase. The amount of funding that has gone to benefits: yes that has increased but a big part of that has been the increase in funding that we have put towards benefits. As I said earlier it's not just about the $20 that came into effect this year; it's also about the $25 that came into effect last year and indexation which has already started. If we think about all of the changes together that we have made since 2017 and then look ahead to next year when the benefit increases come into effect on 1 April actually 109000 people are going to be better off than what they were in 2017 by around about $175 per week. That is a significant increase.With the member Louise Upston's questions I think there might've been a question around Māori and job seeker and so what we've seen is a 12.1 percent decrease of Māori job seeker since October 2020. We continue to invest in programmes that are focused on those that will be most disadvantaged in the labour market and those of course are Māori; young people; Pacific; what we have seen more recently with COVID last year women as well—in particular sole parents—and of course what has been overlooked all too often is also disabled people. With all of this talk about beneficiaries and who's on benefit and how long they are on for I do want to remind this committee that as I've said so often about 50 percent of those people who are on benefit actually have a health condition or disability or are caring for someone with a health condition or disability. Then you add to that the number of beneficiaries who are caring for children and that's been quite challenging during the last year and a half with childcare challenges due to COVID. I think that we can see how the challenges have led to some of these numbers.