SpeechHon SHANE JONES (Minister of Forestry): Thank you Madam Speaker. There's a line that I recall from when I was a lad at St Stephen's School out of the Bible: But the hour cometh and now is". Without a doubt every single member of the House wants to align their interests I am absolutely sure with the inevitable challenges hardship uncertainty and pain that lies ahead of us with the arrival of the viral black swan: an event no one contemplated an event that has long and dangerous consequences and will be rationalised post-event for many years to come.Every single Kiwi is looking to their democratically elected representatives to show reassurance not to delve into gratuitous displays of pettiness or divisiveness. Now there's a balance to be struck between the democratic responsibility of Her Majesty's loyal Opposition to test the thinking but not to feast on the inevitable sadness uncertainty and volatility in the community. This particular package articulated yesterday now over $12 billion will inject confidence will inject cash will inject re-assurance into the many firms that are saddled with the burden of having to get rid of employees or indeed in some cases even close their businesses. This truly is a set of circumstances that no one in this House has actually been through. Sure the economic impact may be analogous to what some of us lived through in the late 1980s or it may have resonances for that which befell us in 2007 and 2008. But with the dangerous implications for human health this moves it to an entirely different level. When we go into the regions and we will be making announcements for the Tai Rāwhiti—but that's not the only region. All of these programmes start somewhere. For several weeks we've been working on cobbling together with coherence and with a level of cut-through a package for the forestry industry. But it's not only the forestry industry. The other side of the House have been quoting statistics—quite dangerous in my view the way in which they are throwing those statistics around about the huge layoff problems in the tourism sector. That is why the wage subsidy the actual ability of people to put their hands up: "I may be affected. I need to socially isolate. I need some fiscal assistance so we can continue to live." That is a very compassionate that is a very relevant set of ideas in our proposal. But there will be several eras segments in this journey. This is just the beginning.Slowly but surely I've no doubt that businesses themselves are putting themselves on a war footing because such is the systemic nature of the challenges not of our own making. Markets overseas are clogging up supply lines logistics are clogging up. This is restricting our ability to conduct business as usual. But I've every confidence that the investors the enterprises the men and women of the land will continue to generate food generate produce and exports. And where we need to as a Government ensure that supply lines and logistical problems can be solved we will solve them.We know we are a country that has a prodigious ability to turn our fortunes around. We have our legacy industries and we are about to learn how profoundly important those legacy industries are in terms of continuing to generate output. This is not a time for rural or urban young or old blue or red black or white; this is a time for Kiwis to bind together. This is a time for this House to show we'll rise above pettiness and point scoring. I do say however we were let down by the Leader of the Opposition yesterday."