Chhour Karen; Dean Jacqui; Watts Simon; Parker DavidKAREN CHHOUR (ACT): Thank you Madam Chair. I just had a couple of questions for the Minister around the targeting that you've been talking about—saying this is a targeted payment. The scenario in my household would be an extra $1400 coming into my household with four children living at home over the age of 18 who will all be eligible for this payment. Is the Minister confident that that is targeting the payments to people in need?And my other concern is that this will be done automatically and will there be an option for people to opt out if they feel that they don't need this money?CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jacqui Dean): Simon Watts.SIMON WATTS (National—North Shore): Madam Chair—sorry.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jacqui Dean): Sorry I've called Simon Watts.SIMON WATTS: Yes thank you Madam Chair. I just saw the Minister stand up at the same time and we're going to play a bit of up and down yo-yo but that's OK.The question I have in regards to clause 5 inserting new section 7AAA and I said I've got a series of questions so I'm continuing on with that. Inland Revenue will administer the payments based on information that they hold and so my series of questions relates to that point. Can the Minister confirm that Inland Revenue holds date of birth information for all individuals in the country that are over the age of 18—quite a simple question right? But the criteria of this bill is that anyone over the age of 18 is eligible. So my question is: does the Inland Revenue hold that information? If they don't well we've got a little bit of a problem.My second question is around the Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Social Development and I'm interested to know whether there's existing information-sharing arrangements between those two entities which cover specifically the winter energy payment because of course looking at the criteria that is one of the exclusion factors for getting this payment. So if that information sharing isn't in play Inland Revenue will not have the ability to assess criteria and we know that that's not often a reason why this Government don't make payments out to people but that is another important aspect.The last question in this series here is: will the Inland Revenue be proactively contacting individuals before 1 August which is the date on which this is in order to ensure that proactively they hold all the necessary information to be able to make a payment—for example asking taxpayers to update their myIR to check that the Inland Revenue holds the correct bank account details so they can actually get their payment of $27 a week which as I said is 9 litres of fuel in a Toyota Corolla per week; 20 percent of a tank of gas.Simeon Brown: 9 litres?SIMON WATTS: That's it Simeon Brown. So those are my three questions and I'd appreciate the Minister's response.Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister of Revenue): Referring first to the ACT member's question in respect of the question as to whether people can opt out yes they can; there's provision for that.In respect of the targeting we are aware that on occasions there will be a number of people in a household earning less than $70000 who are over 18 years of age who will get the payment and that is our intention. We would note that overall this will be better targeted than we would suggest alternative tax cut policies from the member's own party.In respect of the issue as to the collection of bank accounts there will be social media campaigns—well not campaigns; that's the wrong word: information presented to people in order to encourage people to provide their bank account details through myIR or if they can't do it that way by way of contacting Inland Revenue through other channels.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jacqui Dean): Matt Doocey.