Mitchell Mark; Mallard TrevorHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well you know the Government's in big trouble when they roll their big guns out and you have the Hon David Parker come down to the House and deliver a high-energy inspirational speech to the country highlighting the fact that in Auckland we can have a barbecue on the deck. And actually maybe it wasn't a bad idea keeping us locked down because it gave Andrew Little time to have a look at some alternative drugs—you know a confused and muddled response.Simon Bridges and Simeon Brown—for how long have they been putting pressure on the Government around the proliferation of gang members and weapons in this country but what did the Government do? We've been saying Lock them up get them out of the community." What did they do? They locked the rest of us up and they allow the gangs to have a free run in the community.It actually would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that we're in a very serious situation in this country and the reality of it and the reason why this Government is resisting the royal commission is because I feel very strongly that a royal commission would highlight the fact that we were way way behind in rolling out a vaccine programme. And the reason why I say that is that I attended a function in Auckland and it was the Indian Newslink Lecture and black tie dinner. It was on 16 August and it was attended by Dr Ashley Bloomfield and the Hon Priyanca Radhakrishnan. Both of them stood and spoke to the audience—there were 500-plus people there. There were some very very good questions from highly respected local GPs around the timing and the vaccine roll-out. At that time 18 percent of the country were double-vaxxed. Just think about that—only 18 percent of the country.On that night both Dr Bloomfield and the Minister highlighted and celebrated the fact that we'd had one of the best responses so that we could come together as a group like that of over 400 or 500 people. There was no sense of urgency there were no clear answers to the reason around the slowness of the vaccine roll-out. The very next day we were put into a level 4 lockdown. And we've been stuck in that lockdown for 83 days. That is a serious indictment on this Government and their failure to roll out that vaccine far earlier which would have prevented Aucklanders still being stuck in a lockdown would have prevented the massive wrecking ball that has gone through this country not just in human cost but in economic cost as well. And believe me we will still feel the human cost of this in the years to come—the families that have been separated the children that have been unable to get to a dying parent's bedside the businesses that are going under and continue to go under.So this is an extremely serious matter and this has been an abject failure on the Government's part on a simple matter of rolling the vaccine out. The country has got behind them and responded to their call every single time. There's only one thing that we've expected them to do and that is to be responsible that is to be proactive that is to show that they've got the strategic ability to be able to roll out something as simple as a vaccine roll-out when we all knew and we all saw what Delta was doing around the world. But there was a deep complacency that had crept into this Government. They were too busy patting themselves on the back and congratulating themselves on an outstanding response to the country—that was the response of the 5 million.And let me just give you one local example from me in my own electorate: two weeks ago I had two people that were diagnosed with Delta three days into a diagnosis with Delta—highly contagious. They were put in home isolation. They broke their home isolation; they came into Ōrewa. One of them was intending on using public transport. A good Samaritan came forward to assist them because they'd been in some sort of domestic dispute. The person failed to highlight the fact they had Delta. He took them down to the police station—two officers dealt with them she failed to tell them that she had Delta. All three of them ended up in isolation both of them away from their families and we had someone with Delta in the middle of Ōrewa prepared to use public transport.I got on to the Ministry of Health. I wanted clear answers for the community because it was very clear to me the police felt that they continued to be a risk and the community felt that they continued to be a risk and they should be in managed isolation and quarantine. After a week of trying to get clear answers from the Ministry of Health this is what I got back in a redacted version: "A thorough investigation has been undertaken and we are able to confirm that no breaches in terms of allowable activity have occurred in this instance." That captures the confused response from this Government perfectly and the Ministry of Health—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."