Genter Julie AnneHon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. The Green Party is rising in support of the confirmation of these orders and I thank the Minister for his contribution. We're particularly supportive of the one that was suspending the quarantine-free flights from Australia. I think that was a really wise decision given what has been happening in Australia with the community outbreaks.I did have a few questions for the Minister and concerns to bring from the point of view of the Green Party. While we absolutely acknowledge that this is a trying time for those who have friends and family overseas or who would like to return to New Zealand and are facing really difficult circumstances to get into managed isolation—very aware of those problems—we maintain that it's absolutely the highest priority to maintain the security of our border to not have a community outbreak coming from the border. Given the Delta variant and its higher transmissibility I think this is really a moment of critical risk for New Zealand. We now have spent well over a year living life almost as normal with a few exceptions and that's something quite unique in the world. Now that we've made it this far we've got the roll-out of the vaccinations happening we did have some concerns that at this late stage we might have a slip-up COVID might get in particularly one of these more virulent variants. And so we did have some questions to put forward to the Minister.Particularly I guess the points of weakness to us are around those places where there are exemptions. We do understand there have to be exemptions such as for diplomatic and Defence personnel and the specific one here in the isolation and quarantine amendment order around aircrew. I completely understand that in order for international flights to operate there needs to be a different process or requirement for aircrew but it would be good if the Government was able to lay out what the specific requirements are and help give confidence in that system because it was I believe aircrew travelling with a shuttle driver—just that one exposure—in New South Wales that has led to this pretty substantial community outbreak that's been very very difficult to manage. So it does just highlight that aircrew and any sort of exemption is a point of weakness. Whether or not people have been vaccinated we know that they can carry the virus and transmit the virus even if they have been fully vaccinated. So it's vitally important that we ensure that we are not leaving anything open to risk.I want to acknowledge the Government has done a very good job so far and we also have had our share of luck as with the case of the Sydney man who was sick with the Delta variant and travelled around Wellington for several days. We were so lucky that there were no cases in the community that came from that. But I just wanted to raise that issue from the point of the Green Party that we are particularly nervous around exemptions and around aircrew and even diplomatic and Defence personnel that there are sufficient other requirements in place that can give the community confidence that we are not going to have a case of COVID sneak in through the border in that particular manner—but otherwise very happy to support.