Kerekere ElizabethDr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Kia ora. It's a pleasure to rise in support of these 12 orders which of course are already in effect. We note the work of the Regulations Review Committee in preparing this report. I suspect you'll be doing many many more of them. Ngā mihi to the Minister for this introduction.So we note these orders were first presented in the House between 21 September and 18 October; this is our first opportunity to actually debate them. They were made in that period when Auckland was first put into level 3 and other areas such as Northland Waikato and Upper Hauraki were moved to higher alert levels. So much has changed since then but I think it's important to always come back and check on these things. So as the Minister noted these cover isolation and quarantine alert level requirements required testing and vaccinations. So—[Clears throat] aroha mai—I'm going to briefly comment on some of those.I agree with the previous member how important it is that saliva testing is much much more prevalent in the work that we're doing. So we're looking to see much greater clarity around how that will be used and the prevalence of its use.Many of the requests I receive are about clarifying the restrictions. People are getting very very confused. So even sensible and very intelligent people are coming to me to say What about this what about this what about this?" and it's getting very very tricky. So I realise that's a significant comms issue but if people can't understand the rules it's really hard for them to keep coming to them—so requirements about where to use face coverings or the numbers for gatherings.Although I suspect incentives work better from what we have seen in raising vaccinations we note that it does create another infringement offence for people who are not displaying a quick response (QR) code. So just a shout-out to all those thousands and thousands of businesses who do have all their QR codes up there that are following the rules have their little stations and are doing all the things. I suspect it's only a very small number of people who are still not meeting that. So if need be if we must do infringement fees that is in place.But as COVID moves around the country for those of us in Tai Rāwhiti and other areas where vaccination numbers are so low—and that's for everybody not just for Māori and that's despite the really hard work of our local providers and our community people getting that push out there—we're watching very very closely what happens with the Auckland border and how people can move across alert levels.So the Greens want to see an increase in the compassionate reasons for people to move across the border: being able to see whānau being able to attend tangi—those things are really really important. Family connection especially is critical—SPEAKER: Order! I'm going to draw the member back to the orders.Dr ELIZABETH KEREKERE: Ka pai. I was just coming back too. So we support more access to businesses and services work and education funerals and tangi which is one of the things of this order. So we're saying that we absolutely support those. Increasing permissions to allow children moving between caregivers and people going to or relocating their principal places of residence; we see this as particularly important for students who are all going to be leaving the main cities where their—which institutions they were in and those who are going to be moving to them to take up study.We support relaxing the border restrictions when it is safe to do so. So we do support people being required to carry evidence of a test or a negative result and we do welcome the prohibition of people moving to a second place of residence. In particular that Auckland people should not be—or anybody really—able to go and do holiday on nearby places like Waiheke or Aotea. What we're not clear on though is what this means in terms of transitioning to a traffic light area and how those prohibitions work. So we still would look forward to greater clarity on that.The last part I want to address is around self-isolation and the pilot. So we note that this particular order is around the requirements for work-related trips which of course also includes all of us. So we support increased guidelines on this because now that we've had a few deaths with people who are self-isolating outside of managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities or hospitals we're concerned about the capacity for people. So I certainly am hoping that that pilot has got clarity on how they're looking after all these people—hundreds at the moment but probably thousands eventually—who is testing them and who is checking whether they actually should be in hospital and at what point that happens. So we said that anymore self-isolation needs to prioritise those who need it instead of putting people in overcrowded situations or who are mainly in hardship. An opportunity perhaps to reunite split migrant families by including them in these trials and ensuring MIQ is available for community cases unable to self-isolate safely.And finally we note our overall concern that the obligations and permissions made through these orders prioritise those who are most vulnerable and lead to the safest outcomes. Kia ora."