SpeechAGNES LOHENI (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's my first call since we've returned from the COVID lockdown break so I'd like to start with talofa lava everyone. Malo le soifua maua ma le lagi mamā. Happy Samoan Language Week.Here we go again. We're being asked to pass a bill under urgency that has far-reaching consequences for our welfare system and our country. Again we are being asked to do this under the banner that these are unprecedented times. Job losses hit at the heart of families—all the more reason that the way that we support New Zealanders through this crisis through job losses is given due diligence. So these are unprecedented times. Let's talk about unprecedented. Let's talk about this Government's decision to suspend Parliament during lockdown; whilst National agreed that at level 4 lockdown it was necessary we do not accept that the Government was allowed to fall asleep at this time. A crisis is the time that our country needs our Government the most.The fact that there would be job losses was known as soon as lockdowns were proposed. So despite the Government's attempts to gloss over what will be the biggest economic challenges that we face in our lifetime despite its attempts to smile and wave at the wave of job losses its decisions have caused despite its attempts to avoid admitting that people requiring wage assistance are actually unemployed now the reality is that it knew that a huge number of jobs would be lost. The Government has had nearly three months since lockdown to develop an effective and comprehensive income relief response to the tsunami of job losses that were on the horizon. Whilst we were getting daily health announcements from the Prime Minister Ministers who should have been front and centre in the response to job losses were missing in action. Now late in the game we get this.Let me be clear—and it's been made very clear by members of this side of the House that we support income relief for New Zealanders victimised by the lockdown. Our New Zealand people cannot be blamed for the economic devastation that we now face where we have estimates of unemployment anywhere from 10 percent by the end of this year to something predicting double that number.I agree that the Treasury forecasts of unemployment and then the recovery are wildly optimistic. Whilst I don't want to get into a discussion about the economy at this point I cannot under any scenario see how Treasury can forecast unemployment to drop to just 5.7 percent in just two years. These numbers are gerrymandered numbers and New Zealanders will see through this. So New Zealand faces a prolonged and deep period of unemployment and yes we have to face the reality of providing income support to New Zealanders who through no fault of their own are unemployed. So a prepared Government an organised Government a Government over its brief a kind Government would have been doing the hard work over this period during the lockdown to prepare this work to have their bills ready to go to have the opportunity to engage with us on this side of the House giving us adequate time to appraise the bills and be ready to go through and debate a rigorous process; that hasn't happened. It has come to the party late. It is ill thought through. It is punitive. It penalises New Zealanders who lost their job in February by paying them half of what New Zealanders who lost their job in March will be paid. Merely by the timing of when you lost your job you get a better golden ticket than someone else.So that willingness on our part has been sorely tested. To work and to engage with the Government we're willing to engage at a time of crisis to make sure that we provide solutions for all New Zealanders at this particular time of crisis. I do not support this bill.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): The next call's a split call. I call Willow-Jean Prime.