Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you very much Madam Chair. I just want to tautoko what Scott Simpson said sort of—half. He said that—Hon Member: Too close to the Greens.DAVID SEYMOUR: Beg your pardon?Hon Simon Bridges: Sitting with the Greens.DAVID SEYMOUR: Oh here we go. The National Party are stunned to hear a word of te reo Māori and it's really knocked them for six. He said Kia ora." That's two words—well done. But I want to go back to what Scott Simpson said about the idea of consulting other parliamentary parties and the Leader of the Opposition. Scott Simpson may be aware that back in 1992-93 there was a series of referenda where the New Zealand people brought in an electoral system called MMP and it's made the New Zealand Parliament a multiparty Parliament. I think it's actually an excellent idea that Parliament be respected and that these kinds of orders do have consultation with other political parties. Usually what we do is we trust the Government to govern for three years but in giving them extraordinary powers like this consultation across Parliament—and obviously I might seem a bit self-interested but consulting other party leaders would be a very helpful addition to democracy. Some of the National Party leaders say maybe we should do the Leader of the Opposition based on polls. Well I'm not in favour of that; I think it should be by the membership of the House. That's a side issue.I'd like to ask about clause 7 of the bill the new section 11AA(2) which is very interesting because I think it gives a bit of a window into the Government's priorities through COVID-19. What it says is that "For the purposes of subsection (1)(c)(ii)" which is the previous section when making an order under this legislation to tell someone to stay in a place or do a kind of work if they're vaccinated or whatever or to not do a certain type of work if they're not vaccinated or whatever or not tested then "the Minister—must be satisfied that the order is in the public interest and is appropriate to achieve the purpose of this Act." It then goes on to say " 'public interest' includes (without limitation)—" and then it gives some examples. So it's unlimited but it gives some examples and the examples it gives are: "ensuring continuity of services that are essential for public safety national defence or crisis response:"—OK—then it says "supporting the continued provision of lifeline utilities or other essential services:"; then it says "maintaining trust in public services:" as though this may be something that the Government senses is in danger recently; and then finally "(d) maintaining access to overseas markets."Now I'm not opposed to that. I think New Zealand is a trading nation and certainly as a party ACT has been very consistently in favour of New Zealand's status as a trading nation and recently to their credit so has the Labour Party. But it's not so long ago that the Labour Party was running around with the anti - Trans-Pacific Partnership crowd—you might call them the racists and anti-vaxxers of 2016—and yet they've managed to come round to that. So being in favour of access to overseas markets both as importers consumers of overseas goods and also as exporters is very very important but it raises the question of what happens with domestic markets. If it's important to be able to buy and sell goods that are presumably non-essential with foreigners then isn't it important to be able to trade within New Zealand as well?I'll just give a couple of practical examples that I've dealt with as a local MP. I had until recently a case that's thankfully been resolved after two weeks of back and forth with various Government agencies. A constituent had a small group of lift engineers—elevator engineers. They needed to travel from Auckland to Tauranga to inspect and enliven those elevators so that they could pass a disability inspection and a $200 million residential and retail complex in the Tauranga CBD could open. It was the only thing that was holding it back for several weeks. It was really really difficult to get the officials to agree that these half a dozen lift engineers should be able to go to Tauranga. The same lift engineers had just recently travelled to the Waikato and actually into the Bay of Plenty to help fix a lift at a retirement village. Now how is it possible that one of those is essential and the other one is somehow not?So the question to the Minister is: when they made this list of things that are in the public interest why did they include trade with foreigners but not trade with other New Zealanders? Surely our economic wellbeing is important too."