Faafoi KrisHon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Immigration): Mālō e lelei Mr Speaker. Can I please start my contribution by acknowledging the community of West Auckland after the attack of last Friday. It was a horrific and horrendous attack and our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families and the community and the emergency service workers who attended to that incident last Friday afternoon. As the Prime Minister has said on Friday and in subsequent opportunities in terms of an immigration sense and as the Minister of Immigration I say that everything was done every possibility was looked at in order to try and detain and deport the individual but that was frustrated by the process around the appeal of his refugee status. Again I would like to reinforce the message that the Deputy Prime Minister gave which was that if anyone from that community or from the whānau and friends of victims needs support there is support available. He mentioned the 1737 line and also Victim Support. So I would reiterate that that support is there for those who may still be feeling the effects of the events of last Friday.Can I also acknowledge as many have everyone in New Zealand who has pulled together again over three difficult weeks to get us to the point where we are. Many colleagues have acknowledged the people of Auckland who are still living in alert level 4 and bearing the burden of staying home as many other New Zealanders are able to venture out into level 2. Again to our friends and whānau in Auckland we thank you for the continued efforts to make sure that we are collectively safe from the ravages of the Delta virus. Can I also acknowledge all those who have worked tirelessly in Auckland as we speak to them sometimes on a daily basis—the likes of the Auckland Regional Public Health Service and all the health workers who are working extremely hard to make sure that we can contain those numbers. We are heading in the right direction and the evidence of that is being seen because the number of cases is dropping dramatically and the likes of the number of vaccines that are being administered to New Zealanders is rising rapidly. As the Minister for COVID-19 Response my colleague Chris Hipkins mentioned earlier in the general debate I think it's just a little over four million doses of the COVID vaccine that have now been administered. I believe I think the number was about a little over 2.5 million first doses to New Zealanders in a very short amount of time and we want to thank everyone who has been contributing to that effort to get New Zealanders vaccinated. Last night I saw on Seven Sharp a lovely story about a vaccination centre being run close to Auckland Airport and it wasn't just those people who were administering the vaccine who were being hailed as heroes; it was also the people doing the administration the crowd control and the car control around that testing station who were making sure that the people who were getting that vaccine in a difficult time were experiencing it in a way that took away the stress of the experience of having to line up and wait. For some of those people getting vaccinated it was about making sure that they were keeping the kids who were in the back of the car happy and it's all those kinds of things that I think are making sure that New Zealanders are taking up the vaccine and having a good experience doing it. So can I take my hat off to all those workers from the people who meet people at the front gate all the way through to the people who are actually injecting the COVID vaccine into New Zealanders.Can I also acknowledge all the other people who have worked through alert level 4 settings in the past. It's the likes of our supermarket workers who when we go to alert level 4 have to make sure that we are fed and watered and still continue to work and I think we shouldn't underestimate how much more difficult that has been under this level 4 with Delta—and also as many have said our health workers as well. We've spoken a lot about those who are working within the COVID vaccine roll-out but there are also the GPs' practices that continue to work to make sure that the rather mundane things that get dealt with in alert level 1 continue to get dealt with in alert level 4. I had to go to the GP at alert level 4 and again it was a different experience but again it was welcoming for them. So I would like to take my hat off to everyone—Dr Shane Reti: Pharmacies—shout out to them.Hon KRIS FAAFOI: All of those—pharmacies etc. I'm not sure if I've got enough time in my five minutes but I take my hat off because New Zealanders have again stood up to make sure that we can get through this and it's early days yet but the indications are that we are.