Simpson ScottHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Voters and people watching this debate at home on their television or listening on their radio will have observed that when the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister come to this House hours after the National Party has released its 10-point plan for reopening New Zealand and they come to the House as snarky and as irritable and as edgy as they were today—voters will know that it sends a message that actually the Opposition is the one that has the plan for the opening of New Zealand and bringing it back and removing us from the hermit kingdom. When that doyen of the press gallery none other than Barry Soper says in an article headed today Labour looks rattled and PM's under pressure"—and he says "The Government is running out of fingers to plug the holes in the dyke". He mixes his metaphors because then he goes on to say "It's as though the stable door's been ripped off its hinges and the horse is nowhere in sight. Everyone's being caught by surprise with the Government being about as transparent as a brick wall." That's when people will notice. When someone of Barry Soper's esteem and long standing in this place points out the truth about how this Government is floundering around people notice.It was this time last week that the good folk of the Upper Hauraki in my electorate were in a state of confusion and concern and worry because they had had COVID delivered to them—delivered to them actually by the Department of Corrections. There they were a good community a close-knit community a small community on the Auckland side of the Firth of Thames. In Mangatangi in Kaiaua in Miranda / Pūkorokoro—in that lovely area that part of the Firth of Thames they had had thrust upon them a bespoke level 4 lockdown. I listened to the Prime Minister deliver the bespoke level 4 lockdown to that community and she made it sound as if it was a gift from upon high to those people—that they should somehow be grateful for the deliverance of a bespoke level 4 lockdown once the Department of Corrections had delivered into their community a patched Black Power gang member complete with a positive COVID case. Having infected members of the family and the whānau there and pupils that had attended the local Mangatangi School the community was thrust into this lockdown.Well that took place and then we had a bizarre situation where at 9.30 on the evening when the level was reduced from 4 to level 3 a communiqué came out from the COVID boffins who announce these things at 9.30 in the evening and said that the level will drop to level 3 at 11.59 that that evening. So only a couple of hours' notice—completely hopeless. At that point they had a southern boundary but not a northern boundary. So they were free to go anywhere north of the southern boundary at Maramarua but nowhere south and that created confusion. Then what happened is that we had a further reduction in their level: they dropped down to level 2. Well what that meant then is that the old boundary was back in place. So during that period of time that 48 hours or so all sorts of things had happened. I spent most of last week dealing with cases where confused worried concerned constituents who were now on one side of a border that was different a few hours from the previous border—people who had bereavements that had relatives in palliative care that had jobs and work to do and in some cases very concerning situations involving child custody where the boundaries had changed and no opportunity to make good on that. But the real problem was the Department of Corrections who through their systemic failure were unable to cope with a border situation that meant that notwithstanding they had opposed bail for this patched—SPEAKER: Order! I apologise for interrupting the member but I am going to require the Clerk to ring the bell as there is not a Minister present. Oh sorry sorry. The Hon Meka Whaitiri I apologise—you're so far away in these circumstances. Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: It's the mask Mr Speaker. So here we had the Department of Corrections clearly following a process that was put in place pre-COVID—that they would deliver to the home a bailed person from the Mt Eden Corrections Facility—and they clearly hadn't changed their process to adopt for COVID. In the House last week under questioning two days in a row from me the Minister Kelvin Davis was simply unable to account for that. Well that's not good enough. It's not good enough for the good people of Pūkorokoro-Miranda for Kaiaua or for Mangatangi. They deserve better from a Government that should have a plan doesn't have a plan—they're welcome to use the National Party plan delivered today."