Mahuta NanaiaHon NANAIA MAHUTA (Minister of Foreign Affairs): I look around the House today and I want to thank the team of 5 million. One year ago we were all in lockdown facing unprecedented uncharted waters because of a global pandemic. And the way that the Government acted—we went hard and we went early. We ensured that we were going to take an evidence-based response to get New Zealanders through. Why? Because we put people first. And under the leadership of our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern she maintained that the best economic response is a strong health response and that approach remains true to this day. It has worked. Countries all around the world have looked towards not only the way in which New Zealand's approach has worked for our situation but what they can learn from us.Now we don't profess to have all the answers but we do know that when you put people first and when you take decisions that actually try and cushion the economic impacts of your people then things can go in a very different path unlike after the global financial crisis taking a pathway of austerity. We would not accept that that would be the pathway.I too want to acknowledge that while these were unprecedented and uncharted times the Government was not going to sit idly back and say we have no opportunity here to try and make things better. We leaned in and we sent all the signals that needed to be sent and made the necessary decisions to ensure alongside a strong health response we were going to ensure that we would have skilled people prepared for the future of work and the investment in there and also making decisions in terms of the Government's role in infrastructure to ensure that we were going to partner into the long-term resilience of our economy.But let me come back a bit because at the end of the day we all represent people and communities. And the things that made a difference absolutely alongside the health response was the way in which we tried to cushion the impact of closed borders on our economy. I think about the wage subsidy. I think about the Small Business Cashflow (Loan) Scheme and the businesses that we were able to help benefiting around about 100000 businesses and how grateful they were because they were contemplating folding during a very difficult time when they really couldn't see too far down the pathway. I think about the way in which we were able to support self-employed workers—the leave support scheme the Resurgence Support Payment again the wage subsidy and its extension. And all through this process while we didn't have a rulebook we knew we had to act and act with haste because there was a very real prospect that we could be in a worse off position than we are today. New Zealand's credit rating is triple A. No other country around the world has received that credit rating and I want to acknowledge our finance Minister. It positions us well to build the long-term resilience that we're committed to to create the new normal. And that new normal is not about doing the things that we've always done; that new normal is leaning into the very real challenge of climate change. That new normal is leaning into the very real challenge of trying to restore equity.And we don't have quick-fix solutions to challenges that have been systemic such as housing. Nine years of the previous Government made the situation absolutely challenging because they pulled away from the commitment to invest in public housing. We've reversed that. We continue to not only address the very critical and real issues of homelessness transitional housing building the public stock but actually ensuring that homeownership is a very real prospect. We will continue along this pathway.What I'm most proud about though is that in imploring on the efforts of the 5 million that we have in our country to respond to COVID it will take that same effort to ensure that our commitment to strengthen our people our communities and our business all will continue. And what that will mean is as we undertake the vaccination roll-out this year as we prepare for borders to open then we will need all people to be able to support the next steps going forward—very proud about this very proud about the international recognition the trust and confidence that has been put in our hands as a Government because of the decisions we've been making and we don't say that glibly. We know that we are making a difference for the future of New Zealand.