Severin ToniTONI SEVERIN (ACT): Thank you Madam Speaker. Once again I rise on behalf of the ACT Party to speak on the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Extension of Act and Reduction of Powers) Amendment Bill—these bills are very long-winded. Like COVID it's going to be around for years and years and years. As my colleague to my right said read the impact statement—they were throwing all this to us just on Tuesday for us to look at. And yes I know it's all very redacted and I know it's all sensitive stuff but when I also look the departmental disclosure statement I feel a little bit happier because when we look down to considering the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act it's got a yes in it. So it shows me—I'm hoping—that they have done their due diligence and they have gone through and made sure that this bill is OK with the Auditor-General and the Ministry of Justice and they are happy that this new bill is not going to affect people by removing the power of warrantless entry to private dwellings and marae. So this is everybody's house. It doesn't matter who you are. They could have come in and seen you because you disobeyed an order.But also again sometimes those orders were getting very confusing for a lot of people so I am glad that we are getting rid of a lot of these orders that have been constantly coming up. I'm a member of the Regulations Review Committee and we were scrutinising them quite carefully to make sure that nothing sneaked through that would affect people and their lives. The biggest thing of all is that the orders were confusing and confusing for me. I am not a lawyer and the average person out there is not a lawyer and they were very very confusing. I love it when things are made simple so that people can understand. If you treat people like that they will understand and they will do what is required of them.I know that we still have masks in place for our healthcare workers. I understand that. However when you work in the health profession you do have a bit of a higher standard of looking after yourself and those around you. It would be nice to see the lovely smiling faces of our nurses and doctors but also they don't want to make their patients sick if they get COVID or anything else. As I said we have learnt a lot over these past two years about looking after ourselves and others. We stand up as individuals and take responsibility for ourselves and we judge when we need to wear a mask and we look after our vulnerable communities. As we're saying everyone's whānau is important. Be it the immunocompromised be it our elderly be it Pasifika or Māori or any ethnic group that we have here in New Zealand that have any risk factors still need to be taken care of. But the communication and also the language barriers—what I'm learning is that a lot of people had a problem around language and understanding some of the COVID orders. That is a huge thing—getting down to the grass roots of our communities and really talking to them. This is why we're really happy for a lot of the COVID orders to be gone but as we've been saying since October we do need to move on. We have to live with this and not still have orders hanging over us. We know we need to learn. We know a review is going to happen. But we don't necessarily need to continue with all that is here and I'm pretty certain that even if we didn't have the orders people would speak up and say Hey we've got a resurgence of COVID and we've got a new variant. Hey people mask up. Be careful what you're doing and wash your hands some more. Sneeze into your elbow or shoulder." I'm pretty sure we've had that message drilled into us.So the ACT Party still opposes this bill on the grounds that we don't need any more of this. I think New Zealand is wise enough to know what to do and all we need to be told is that this is happening and we can do it. Thank you Madam Speaker."