McClay ToddHon TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua): Madam Speaker thank you very much. I want to start by recognising the hard work and commitment of our health workers health professionals and thousands of people up and down New Zealand who are in surgeries and doctors' studios in our hospitals and indeed in ambulances who are doing more than we would normally ask of them.Of course there's great uncertainty for them. They need to know that this Parliament recognises just what they're going through and that we will continue to work hard to make sure they are as safe as they can be. I also want to recognise or think of parents in New Zealand at the moment of children particularly smaller children because they too will be facing great uncertainty. I know in my electorate but also here in Wellington from around the country there will be parents who are not sure whether they should send their children to school or in some cases will be choosing not to. And that's understandable that as with everybody in this House parents and others are concerned about the impact of this virus upon New Zealand and concerned for their loved ones.That brings me to the need for there to be clear and precise and concise information made available from the Government but also from members of Parliament in all aspects. The reason for that is as this virus has unfolded and will continue to change as quickly as it has the more information that is available to the public the better position they will be in to manage their own circumstances. We need to make sure that the clear advice the Government has been given from health professionals is made available to this Parliament but to parents and to New Zealanders also so they know about how they can best decide how it is they go about arranging their everyday lives because it is important that parents know that their children are safe at school if they choose to send them there.I hear what the Minister of Education has said earlier but I think there is a lot of information—a wealth of information or advice—coming to the Government that I think they must release and that they must put aside their normal political decision making when it comes to releasing information because these are unprecedented times. It's important that this House is aware—but everybody is aware—of exactly what's happening.I just want to for a moment just take up the Hon Shane Jones. Look I know it's very very difficult and it's very challenging but we can't on the one hand say that everyone must come together and not be political and then be political. That's all I'm going to say about that. And the reason for that is there are many New Zealanders—tune in to the radio station or listen to talkback radio. There are so many questions being raised and they're concerned. And sometimes they will appear to be from a place of anger but they're not they're from uncertainty and they're from concern and they're because people want to know that everything is going to be OK.So when the Opposition raises issues with the Government as I have in this House as Simon Bridges has and every other member has it's to seek information not to trip up or catch out but to seek information to make sure that everything that has been done that can be done is being done. I think that if we can leave at the doorstep this notion that if you ask a question you must be being political then actually the House will work much better and New Zealanders will be happy with that and we'll be taking our responsibility seriously. Again I want to leave it there.I would say to the Government that the package they've announced has been welcomed and it's welcomed by the Opposition but we need to make sure that everything that can be done is being done. I think another area they must revisit very very quickly is those medium sized businesses and particularly the tourism businesses that this package won't deliver for. Indeed if you are a medium or large sized business and you've lost 30 or 40 percent of your income or you're going to then actually you may well have 100 or 200 employees and the decision of how you keep them on is exactly the same as for a business that only has 10 employees. The consequence for the economy but actually for those workers is much much graver because there will be cases in the coming days and the coming week where hundreds and hundreds of employees are let go in larger companies because this package doesn't deliver for them.I think the Government needs to raise the cap and realise that it's not just about small businesses. Yes we understand that they had to rush there so very very quickly. Release the advice as to why it's only the small businesses but actually what we need to do particularly for tourism businesses is lift that cap and realise that some of them are not going to survive based on the package that was announced yesterday.In my electorate and in Queensland and in every part of New Zealand there are tourism businesses that have no bookings—they have nobody coming through. They have no money arriving this week. We need to keep those businesses there and people employed in them because actually otherwise the harm to our communities and to our economy is going to be so much greater than it is today. So good announcement as a start yesterday but the Government needs to go much much further and they need to quickly.