Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you very much. It's quite hard to sit in here—not surprising but difficult to sit in this place and hear the cruelty still not surprising of the Government members in this very House making the worst dehumanising assumptions: boring old assumptions decades old unproven assumptions clearly with evidence against these assumptions about people receiving income support. It is difficult because it flies in the face of humanity.I want to pick up on what my Manurewa whanaunga has said—Tarsh Takutai—in terms of what is actually the reality on the ground. All people—surely we can agree in this House—must be able to live with dignity.Now I might just take us back to some incredible work that was done by the Welfare Expert Advisory Group from the former Government. The goal and the vision of that group was that we have a welfare system that ensures people have an adequate income and standard of living are treated with and can live in dignity and are able to participate meaningfully in their communities. Now that group which went around the country and sat in front of the very people at the front line experiencing the realities of decades of political decisions that have kept the lowest incomes below the poverty line. They sat with the front-line organisations who then have to come in and clean up the mess that successive Government decisions have made by entrenching intergenerational hardship and struggle.And that welfare group included for example that well-known lefty Phil O'Reilly previous chief executive of Business New Zealand who was very clear and full-throated in his own analysis after having worked at the highest levels of business and community who was clear: they are simply not receiving enough because he felt the essence of people doing their best.Now I have to be very clear about people doing their best with what little they have because I have just heard the last two Government members of this House attempt and actually use the words to say hard-working New Zealanders and inferring then that people receiving income support are not that people receiving income support are not hard working. That absolutely upholds an age-old stupid boring stigma that they are lazy.Now the Welfare Expert Advisory Group that travelled the country and listened to people affirmed that people are doing their best with what little they have and that what is needed is actually to increase properly all benefits above the poverty line. Actually those are political decisions that we have the choice to make. We have the choice to end poverty overnight. We have a choice to redistribute wealth.Now have a think about this: the Welfare Expert Advisory Group was pre-COVID it was pre the impacts of climate change that have just happened it was pre a period of COVID lockdowns that saw those with assets and wealth who by doing nothing had their assets and wealth what triple—by doing nothing. And those living on the hardest incomes were put into more material hardship. So who on earth are we calling lazy in this House? How dare we—how dare we.The Greens were clear: we can end poverty overnight redistribute the wealth—wealth tax capital gains taxes land taxes. Redistribute what was not earned in the first place and how about even just put foodbanks out of business? The people serving food to our communities they don't want to be doing it. They want the families to be having enough to maintain their own mana motuhake and dignity and increasing the incomes for those on the lowest is absolutely the way that we can do that and is absolutely the way we stop intergenerational poverty and it's a decision that we can and must make. Thank you.