Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Madam Speaker. My goodness that was an eye-opener wasn't it? Look I'm very concerned about this bill—I'm very concerned about it. We've had a situation where we have been in this country in a state of lockdown for around four weeks—sorry two months. Sorry what am I talking about?—seven to eight weeks is what I should have said sorry. In that time we've had people die. We've had people who have got terrible diagnoses of illness who have not been able to undertake their treatment. I have in fact a brother-in-law who has an awful diagnosis and I have not been able to visit him—he's been part of my life since I was seven—because he lives in Hamilton and I live in Auckland.I think it is an awful state where New Zealanders have been asked—not just asked but had demanded of them—that we do all the things that we're told to do and then we do those things we do exactly what we're asked to do and then it turns out that this level 2 COVID response that we're now being told we're moving to suddenly needs legislation when strangely levels 3 and 4 seem to not need this sort of legislation.Hon Chris Hipkins: There was a state of emergency.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: That's of course as Mr Hipkins wants to say—the other levels needed it because there was an emergency. Well I guess that that is an acknowledgment that we are currently not in a state of emergency. Nobody extra was diagnosed or announced today to have COVID-19.Last year I'm assured around 850 people died of the winter influenza; no doubt there'll be other people this year with the same. COVID-19 is clearly not winter influenza; it's obviously a very prolific disease once it takes hold and we are fortunate to live in a country with borders that happen to be oceans and that means that people can't just come into the country with the disease unless the Government or the border control lets that happen and that's exactly what has happened. When I heard the Minister of Health—the poor poor man—David Clark lowest ranked member of Cabinet and supposedly with the top job having to tell us today that the Government had gone hard and early in its response it is simply PR spin spun by a master communicator who is his boss. This country did not go hard and early. It went actually pretty weak and slowly and that's what happened. There was no need whatsoever no need at all for this country to allow COVID-19 to come in here.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I would ask the member to come to the bill.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: And then we are coming to the point of enforcement. Who is going to enforce these new rules that we're being asked to rubber-stamp in the dead of night going rushing through Parliament after—what?—seven weeks or eight weeks of lockdown and suddenly it has to come through in one day? Well there are going to be people called enforcement officers. Now who are these enforcement officers? Who are they?Well apparently according to the bill that I have read and made notes on myself they are people that the Government's decided should be enforcement officers. I understand that the Government has a Supplementary Order Paper which is in other words yet another amendment to the bill that's rushing through now which will mean that they will generally be people who currently work for Government agencies. They will be able to go into every business every premises everywhere except a dwelling house and they're not allowed on the marae without warrants. The police however will be able to go on to marae and into my dwelling house and your dwelling house and everyone else's dwelling house if they suspect you're having more than 10 people over for tea. Now this is ridiculous.We are getting into a situation of a police State and what is the point of this? This is to stop COVID-19 except actually I think we've pretty much worked out that COVID-19 came into the country. Other people are not being allowed into the country with it without quarantine as we're now told is happening. So where is it all coming from? We have a few clusters left and New Zealanders are being told You've all done very well you good little boys and girls you children." that we're going to speak to like that as the Prime Minister is wont to do. "You've all been very good but we don't trust you." That's what this bill is about. The Government is taking the powers of the director-general and giving them to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health. That is a disgrace. They're politicising COVID-19 and using it to tell everyone what to do.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Is this a split call?David Seymour: It doesn't have to be.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Is Labour putting up a speaker?Hon Members: No."