Bridges Simon; Mallard TrevorHon SIMON BRIDGES (Leader of the Opposition): A thousand people a day are going on the dole—every single day—since lockdown began. We've heard this morning that the Ministry of Social Development is preparing for 300000 applications of more people going on the dole who—we don't know yet for sure—may well be made unemployed. We've flattened the curve but let's be clear: real people all around this country are suffering in very human ways as a result of the lockdown. Each day it goes on they suffer more. The reality is for those thousand a day—30-something thousand over lockdown; 300000 possibly to come—there's family members there's friends who are all affected by the economic devastation that it brings. I've got a job. The Prime Minister has a job. Members of Parliament and bureaucrats have jobs. But there are tens of thousands who now don't and probably hundreds of thousands more who will not and just having a low number of COVID-19 cases isn't success when we have a lot of people—tens of thousands—out of work and more that are coming. This is going on too long and we need to get New Zealand working again and that's before we consider the harrowing distressful and for me personally upsetting stories. We heard at our COVID-19 committee today of the non - COVID-19 health effects of being in lockdown and being in longer from children who didn't attend their parent's funeral to partners who couldn't be at the birth of a child—where maybe they've struggled for a very long time to have that child—through to cancer patients whose treatment is much more of a lottery as a result of what has happened. The Prime Minister today has talked about rolling the dice and not wanting to roll the dice. I understand that but actually for those health patients they have to roll the dice with the health system as a result of the lockdown. Employers right now because it's crunch time are rolling the dice because they don't have certainty. Yeah they've got a wage subsidy and they gratefully receive it for their employees but as rent accumulates and as other expenses accumulate they can't pay those costs and they're the real people in this country who are rolling the dice at the moment. That's why yesterday we announced our national recovery agenda to end the lockdown to provide cash in a more generous but more targeted way for these businesses right now and a business investment accelerator to lift investment and growth as we come to recovery.I know there's a Budget next week and I've got no doubt that the Minister of Finance will put in it significant business support and that's good. But I fear it will be too late because actually with those thousand people every day there are a thousand business people who as I say are at crunch time right now and they need decisions from this Government.You know when I think forward to the Budget here's my worry. Here's what I think the issue is. We have no doubt as a team of 5 million that we've got a very real problem and it requires very real money—$40 billion perhaps—but my fear is that this Government will turn it into a $100 billion problem. That will be more debt that will inevitably result in more tax and that will inevitably result as a mortgage on our children's and our grandchildren's future.I say to Grant Robertson make your decisions now to support businesses. Don't waste our money and ruin a legacy— SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.