Woods MeganHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'd like to take this occasion of the last time I'll speak in the House in this Parliament to make an acknowledgment of the sentencing that occurred in Christchurch of the terrorist responsible for the mosque attacks. I want to acknowledge a group of people that I've had the privilege of becoming friends with over the last 18 months who collectively have rejected hatred and have rejected retribution. Instead they've embraced love and they've embraced unity and over the last few days I've spoken to them. I've sensed a sense of relief a sense of some kind of closure of this part of the chapter of the journey that they're on but also a pride in this community in having the courage to look that terrorist in the eye and to tell him what impact he has had on their lives. I also want to take this opportunity to acknowledge another group of people and they are the workers who are working at our border. The border is constantly coming under attack politically from the Opposition and it is getting a lot of discussion in the media. But it is not a machine; it is not a computer. The border is hundreds of thousands of people who are working tirelessly every day to collectively protect us all and I do want to acknowledge them and the hard work they are doing. This front line of the cleaners of the maintenance staff of the cooks of the hotel porters—these are the people keeping each and every one of us safe and I want to say thank you to them. Under our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern we have a world-leading health response that has put people first. Not only has this protected our health but it has also set us up for a strong economic recovery. Obviously our current focus is getting the current resurgence under control. We need to hunt out that virus and we need to stamp it out. We've done it before when we've collectively worked together. We on this side of the House—the Government—have the faith in the people of New Zealand that we can do it again and I want to thank everyone who has been part of that. It was interesting to hear from the health spokesperson from the National Party the five-point plan. This idea of continuous improvement and of continuous innovation around how it is that we approach this tricky tricky virus has been one that our Government has embraced since the very beginning. I think we do need to celebrate some of the things we're doing. To hear the health spokesperson saying we only have 50 percent of genomic sequencing—yes we can do more and we are working to do more but let's celebrate for a moment. We have one of the highest rates of genomic sequencing of samples in the world and our epidemiologists have tools that no other countries have at that scale to be able to track and stamp out this virus. So instead of criticising let's actually celebrate some of the advances that we have made in this country and that our scientists have really put their collective effort behind. But it is with sadness that I look across the House and I see a National Party that is desperate and that is disorganised. They've set debt targets that mean tens of billions of dollars' worth of cuts to health in a time of a global pandemic and to education. We have Paul Goldsmith announcing it we have Judith Collins un-announcing it and again today un-announcing it all over again. Hon Willie Jackson: It's a shambles. Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: It is absolutely shambolic—my colleague the Hon Willie Jackson is absolutely right. It is a shambles. There is no consistency from the National Party. They want the borders open they want to bring in international students they want to establish a bubble with China close down the borders the next day—there is no consistency. What this time demands is a group of people to form a Government that have a plan and stick to it. That is what we have seen from our Government and that has involved putting people first. It is with sadness because I think we all know this is not a response we would have seen under John Key or Bill English. We would have seen a plan. But I am proud that we are a Government that has chosen to invest in people as a way through this. As the Minister of Housing I look with pride on the fact that we have invested in housing as a way to get us through this current economic downturn and that we are going to take this opportunity to make sure we provide warm dry houses for people because this is what the people of New Zealand deserve.