Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Well it was a disappointing Budget from a Government that is disappointing New Zealanders and there is no better demonstration of that than the vaccine roll-out—the COVID-19 vaccination programme. New Zealanders will remember that in December last year we were told by Minister Hipkins that New Zealand's at the front of the queue and everyone got very excited and the Prime Minister said that 2021 was going to be the year of the vaccine.Well it's the year of the no-show. It's the year of the lack of delivery of the vaccine roll-out. Here we are on 1 June about to become halfway through the year and where is New Zealand? We're not at the front of the queue; we are the second-slowest in the OECD. We are 115th in the world for the vaccine roll-out. New Zealanders look across at Australia where the Government's in political trouble because of the slowness of the vaccine roll-out in Australia and they think How is Australia doing so much better than New Zealand and how is it that Australia is regarded as a shambles?" Well if they're a shambles over there what would New Zealand be regarded as? We're the second-slowest in the OECD.And just this morning—or in fact overnight—we have the warning from the OECD that unless New Zealand speeds up our economic recovery is at risk. Of course the Budget forecasts—and we're in the Budget debate—are predicated as we heard in question time on the borders being opened up again from 2022 onwards. And how do we open the borders? Well we open the borders once we have herd immunity—once we have a good level of coverage in the population for the COVID-19 vaccine. Well where are we now? The second-slowest in the OECD not at the front of the queue; in fact right at the back.Here's the thing for the Government: between September and October for 49 days in a row seven days a week seven weeks we are meant to do 76000 vaccinations a day—76000 vaccinations per day for nigh on 50 days in a row. I'm willing to say I don't reckon they'll get there. And what that means is as the Auditor-General warned that we will run behind—we will not meet the Government's target. And this Government has made an absolute fortune—or this Government has made it its raison d'être to not meet targets—whether it's KiwiBuild targets or whether it's child poverty targets or climate change targets or one billion trees targets. We don't talk about a billion trees anymore—that was another thing that was not mentioned in the Budget. Shovel-ready programmes are also something that we haven't reached a target on. We don't talk about the Provincial Growth Fund much anymore because that didn't reach its job targets either. So right across the board on everything the Government seeks to measure itself against the Government has not reached its target and I don't reckon they'll get there on the vaccine target either.Something very interesting happened last week and we picked up on it and the media ventilated this which was the Government surreptitiously moved the goalposts on the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. It used to be if you went to the Ministry of Health website you would see the group 3 roll-out which is about 1.7 million people. It used to say May and then of course we got two-thirds of the way through May and the group 3 roll-out wasn't happening. So surreptitiously in April the ministry moved the goalposts for group 3 to late May and then of course we had the same thing happening with the group 4 roll-out which went from July until the end of July which in layman's terms means August which means a month's delay.And I asked the Minister in question time today whether or not the month's delay to group 4—which is the bulk of the general population—was linked to the national booking system. He says the answer's no but of course the reality is it is. The national booking system—this is this new-fangled system the Government spent the better part of $40 million on which is meant to allow you to go online and book your vaccine and then book your second shot of the Pfizer dose—that's not ready to go. So we're going to have to wait yet another month for that to start. The booking system's not ready group 3 is being delayed group 4 is being delayed and then we found out last week that district health boards don't even know which of their staff members have been vaccinated and which of them haven't. So the vaccine—it's very important we get it right and so far the signs are very worrying indeed."