Loheni AgnesAGNES LOHENI (National): It's my pleasure to take this call on the third reading of the Social Security (Winter Energy Payment) Amendment Bill. I think of my parents who are both superannuitants and I am sympathetic to the intent of the bill which is to address and to recognise the costs of heating homes during winter but actually they are also facing rising costs of living under this Government during the course of a full year.There are a number of concerns which have been highlighted by members on this side of the house during the passage of this bill. The previous speaker Priyanca Radhakrishnan and also the Minister for Social Development just earlier tonight talked about this bill targeting those that are most in need. I'm pretty sure the Rt Hon David Carter is really in need of this winter energy payment which he is receiving. This bill actually does not consider need; it merely gives a blanket subsidy to everybody who is eligible. It is an opt-out not an opt-in payment thus giving additional moneys to many who have stated categorically that they don't need it.The bill's fast progress—expressly fast progress—has not allowed a fair process for scrutiny. We are here debating this winter energy amendment because of the lack of scrutiny on this bill due to the rushed process which resulted in the ministry paying out $3.45 million of unappropriated and unlawful expenditure moneys that cannot be recouped.I think of my parents—and I mentioned this before—who are both superannuitants who will receive this winter energy payment but I also think that under National's proposed tax cuts they would've received the extra money spread across the year rather than an injection across several months which forces them to adjust their budgets accordingly. Further the winter energy payment will erode over time in real terms with no indexation factored in.We on this side of the House have reiterated our concerns that legislative changes are being made in a rush due to mistakes having been made when the original legislative changes were rushed through Parliament without proper scrutiny. Let us be reminded that this is a result of the Minister dropping a 500-page Supplementary Order Paper in May last year 24 hours out from the Social Security Legislation Rewrite Bill which failed to get the details right around this winter energy payment. The amendment in this bill purports to correct a mistake related to those in funded residential care but we are of the view that this is still not being corrected and further mistakes will be made.Ministry officials were unable to advise us of the precise number of people who will be fully funded by the Government for their full-time residential care and who will still receive the winter energy payment. As noted in one of the very few submissions—very few because there was only a short amount of time—one of the submitters wrote One of the things I care deeply about is people trusting decision making institutions and feeling like they can be genuinely heard—this undermines that work." There was no genuine attempt by the Government to allow fair scrutiny of this bill or to allow more voices to be heard. On that note I do not support this bill to the House."