Menéndez March Ricardo; Tuiono TeanauRICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Thank you very much Mr Chair. I wanted subsequent to questions followed from the good interrogation from my colleague Julie Anne Genter to pick up on the first quintile in the average change in income analysis in figure 1 in the regulatory impact statement. So the first quintile what is shows is picking up on where my colleague had left around how—despite the comments from members opposite to me that everyone will benefit the first quintile actually show that not actually everyone will benefit. I just wanted to test whether the Minister could clarify whether it is factually correct to say whether everyone will benefit when the analysis in that first quintile actually shows that there's about 8000 households who will not be better off. It may seem like a small proportion of people but as we have traversed in other discussions around benefit increases actually average numbers don't paint a full picture.The first quintile did show that the group of people who would be not better off are people who would have been on the benefit during some period. What I think that shows and I want the Minister to help us elaborate is that this bill does not equally lift all boats. That in fact the people most benefiting from this bill are those that are well off. So following the specific questions I had was (a) whether he thought it's factually correct to claim that this bill benefits every single person in this country and if so why?The second question I had around that first income quintile—aka those who have the lowest incomes for example people on the benefit will be disproportionately represented in here—whether he sought or he received a breakdown particularly for this first quintile on age. I'm asking because a lot of young people are on lower incomes and ultimately we haven't really discussed the impact of the distribution and how this bill will be distributed amongst and will impact young people. So I do want to get a sense of whether he sought or had a breakdown by age around those quintiles—how young people are represented in that first quintile in that analysis.I did want to go back to a question that wasn't quite addressed earlier in the night around whether there was any engagement with Whaikaha in relationship to the impact on how those tax breaks would be distributed amongst disabled people. I asked this because multiple research has showed that disabled people are over-represented in those lower incomes. When we just get a breakdown of the number of households but we don't really get a picture painted around how many of those households that are not proportionately benefiting from this bill—how many of them are young people how many of them are disabled—I think then the Minister isn't actually painting a clear enough picture to the House and to the public around for example where will disabled people be and how they will benefit in relationship to this bill. Because we've talked about plenty of the people in work but there are many disabled people who are out of work many of them who receive a benefit. The distributional analysis that talks about how beneficiaries will not be as benefited because of this but he hasn't addressed how disabled people will feature in here. Disabled people make up a quite substantive proportion of the population.We already heard from the Minister that there was no child impact assessment being done and I'm starting to get concerned that there was not robust enough work going into the impact on different population groups as a result of these tax cuts which are one of the key features in this Budget. So I do hope the Minister can give us precise answers in relationship to whether it's factually correct to say that everyone will benefit (b) the analysis around disabled people and (c) the analysis on the breakdown of young people. Well that's not everyone and the member earlier was talking about how everyone would benefit right? That is actually quite important to actually claim. It's important for the Minister to be clear that some people will be worse off as a result of these changes. A small group but none the less some people will be. Who are these households? They're people on the benefit—the ones doing it the toughest. We haven't been able to be upfront with this House about the fact that those who will benefit the least from these tax cuts are the people who are already struggling to make ends meet.CHAIRPERSON (Teanau Tuiono): Members the time has come for me to leave the Chair. The committee will resume at 9 a.m. tomorrow.Sitting suspended from 10.03 p.m. to 9 a.m. (Friday)