Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to speak to the COVID-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Bill a bill that I was able to offer some contribution to in the first reading.I do want to acknowledge the Epidemic Response Committee. This has been a really good body of work. They've worked hard. I've been fortunate to be able to somewhat job-share this and I'd like to acknowledge Chris Penk who I think was maybe my substitute in the times I was travelling at the period when the committee was actually on. So I'd like to certainly thank those who were part of the committee and the chairperson the Hon Michael Woodhouse. A number of submitters appeared in front of the committee by Zoom and submitted in writing and I think the departmental report—which was compiled very quickly—is a good summary of what we saw and heard. I want to speak to several parts of that.First of all the part of the bill that speaks to corrections and courts. This was very much around audio and audiovisual and it is a component of: can we create legislation or enable legislation that allows audio to be a part of the courts and corrections? And then it expanded to well if there's audio there's actually more likely to be audiovisual and that's a more fair representation of what we're trying to achieve. So it then jumped to and audiovisual". Then the New Zealand Bar Association and others also commented that there must be the right on behalf of those who are in front of the process to decline either of those. I think we only learnt or got to that sort of material from some of the legal submitters who really did improve and fine-tune the bill.I think we've already heard some commentary around debt hibernation and safe harbour and a number of submissions where they gave real examples of what that would look like. I want to read just a couple of sentences from one that caught my imagination that I thought summarised the debt hibernation and the safe harbour—I thought it encapsulated it quite well. The submitter said once they gave their example of suffering under coronavirus "This is where the hibernation scheme and the safe harbour provisions intersect. The safe harbour provisions provide confidence to directors that they can continue in an attempt to salvage their business without the potential for personal loss if they were to fail in their endeavours. That confidence means they can proceed to put together an arrangement that … be considered by creditors in an endeavour to find a way of restructuring debt." I think this is exactly the purpose of the debt hibernation and safe harbour.There was a lot of discussion—again some of my colleagues have raised—around not wanting to provide a mechanism for those who were maybe struggling significantly and proceeding towards insolvency prior to coronavirus and to try and nuance the legislation so it mostly solely applied to those who are suffering as a consequence of coronavirus and that's quite difficult to specifically focus on just that reason.There were health components in the departmental report as well and I am pleased that the Government took on board a small suggestion I made at the first reading that they take some care with mental health examinations over audiovisual links and how challenging this can be. I see one of the suggestions here is that an examination under Schedule 11 cannot be carried out by audio-only link. I'm pleased that was taken on board.There are items here for police very much administrative around licensing and licensing extensions workplace relations and some more administrative areas.I think at this point I want to just also thank the officials for doing a wonderful job with the departmental report. I think that did summarise the submissions the submitters who really added value to this process. We listened and changed. If we look at those changes across one two three four about eight portfolios that's quite a few changes. But so there should be because this bill amends 42 to 45 pieces of legislation as I recall so I'm not surprised that that was the fine-tuning that needed to be done. Again I'd like to thank the committee for getting it to this place in the House and I commend this bill to the House."