Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (Leader of the Opposition): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well what a smug contemptuous contribution from the Minister of Finance Grant Robertson. What a smug contribution where he talks about the health and safety of parliamentary staffers forgetting the health and safety of the ministerial staffers who he's had working all the way through lockdown level 4 without a thought to them. And as for—Hon Grant Robertson: Point of order Mr Speaker. The member has made a completely inaccurate observation about my office. I've had no ministerial staff working in my office until today. SPEAKER: Sorry I'll just stop the clock. I think it's fair to say that that is not actually a point of order. It is a debating point and it'd be better if the Minister had not interrupted. Yes I think we'd just better leave it there but I will now indicate to the Leader of the Opposition that now that she has been informed she will not repeat any statement which might be misleading.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Well obviously somebody's a bit tetchy today—a little bit touchy that we've just pointed out that ministerial staff have been working in the Beehive because we've seen them on television and all of a sudden suddenly they're not in his office—that's what we've got from that Minister. Well he loves to throw the dirt and the accusations and he does not like any of it coming back to him. We've just seen a Government today talking about vaccine roll-out. We've heard the Prime Minister make a noble prediction that we'll be able to get something like 350000 immunisations a week in the next few weeks. Well that is great—and then there is that wee problem that we don't quite have enough vaccines in the country to cover it and therefore that's why we're trying to get more supply. So let's get these vaccines in people's arms and let's stop trying the point-scoring that they're up to.So right now this Government should be focused on vaccines the vaccine roll-out the health of New Zealanders ICU beds all those sort of things—the workforce that Minister Hipkins has admitted is in stress mode. They should be doing that shouldn't they? But instead what we see today on the Stuff website is an attack on me where a Pacific leader in South Auckland said they hadn't heard from me. Who is this Pacific leader? Oh—the vice president of the Labour Party Jerome Mika. Oh also the Labour Party candidate in 2014 in Papakura who came second. So that's the level that they stoop to. When they should be doing their job they're after the personal attacks and they'll continue to do it. Thankfully Stuff has now removed that story from their website because they've finally worked out that they were sold a pup as were New Zealanders when the Prime Minister stood up in January and said this would be the year of the vaccine. Oh no it's not. It's the year of the lockdown that's what it is and it's a lockdown because the Government has failed—failed miserably—until we had a lockdown level 4 to actually get vaccine in people's arms. And it's all very well the Prime Minister saying at the podium in April Well we're going to be a little bit behind. We'll let other countries go first." but surely not 118 other countries—surely not that. And I'm sure that the Minister for COVID-19 Response will want to say "But no no today we're 117 or maybe we're 116."Hon Louise Upston: Whoopee!Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Oh whoopee! We were told in September by that same Minister that we would be front of the queue for vaccines. We're not front of the queue. We can barely see the queue from the back it's that far away. So this sanctimonious smug attitude about spending money from the COVID fund on the Green School in Taranaki or on the three waters bribery around the councils to get them to come to the table to talk about it and the tetchiness every time someone gives him some of his own medicine back—that is actually the sign of a Government that understands it has completely stuffed up the vaccine roll-out until the last couple of weeks. And why now? Why wait until Delta was here to suddenly get excited about vaccines? They've already got Dr Ayesha Verrall who is able to tell them as a virologist that the vaccinations are the secret to dealing with COVID-19. Keeping it out at the managed isolation and quarantine facilities—where are the purpose-built ones? Oh that's right—none are built. Did they take any notice of the Simpson-Roche report? Not a scrap. Did they actually even take any notice of the Auditor-General's report about this? Not a scrap. They have been so clever congratulating themselves day in day out about how clever they were that they've dropped the ball and New Zealanders are now in level 4 lockdown in Auckland level 3 everywhere else and it's all on the head of this Government over there that has sat by—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."