Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): Look of course I'm standing to support the COVID-19 Response (Urgent Management Measures) Legislation Bill. We recognise the importance of keeping the momentum going in terms of the response to COVID-19. I want to acknowledge the Leader of the House and the shadow Leader of the House who have worked together to ensure that we can meet here today as our Parliament to advance and pass this legislation which is critically important in terms of our response as a country to the current challenge. I just want to acknowledge very quickly some comments that the previous speaker Tracey Martin from New Zealand First made. I'm glad to see that she has diluted her comments a bit from her first contribution and that is quite simply to parents: you are parents; you are teachers. Back yourselves. If you want to do some teaching at home if you want to put some lessons together—[Interruption]—sorry Mr Speaker you're absolutely right—SPEAKER: No we" are parents is all I'm saying to the member.Hon MARK MITCHELL: —you're right: we are parents; I'm a parent as well—do that. You know in terms of the response within our education system and the part in the legislation to respond to that I just want to acknowledge our principals our boards of trustees all our teachers and our parents who around the country have been planning for the last few weeks. My own daughter is a teacher at Whangaparāoa School inside my own electorate. I know she's been testing with me over the last few evenings online learning for years five and six. I didn't realise it was so tough.Hon Gerry Brownlee: How'd you go?Hon MARK MITCHELL: Yeah not that well! I was asked by the shadow Leader of the House how I went. In relation to the courts can I acknowledge the Minister of Justice who is in the House. When the House first sat today he brought some hand sanitiser over to me to sanitise my hands.Hon Member: We're all in this together. Hon MARK MITCHELL: We're all in this together—you're absolutely right. I'm not too sure now what was in the hand sanitiser but I do appreciate the gesture. It's an important one and I want to say good luck to him in the tough job that he's taking on. I am there to support without a doubt. We're also there to test ideas and I think that's healthy in our democracy. I acknowledge the committee that's been set up that will be chaired by the Hon Simon Bridges and I know the spirit in which that committee will be chaired will be for the best of the country in terms of making sure that we stay on track and we test everything that we're doing in the coming days weeks and months. I would just like to say that in terms of our justice system can I acknowledge everyone involved in that—our police our corrections officers our court staff our judges our JPs and everyone that comes together to make what is a world-class justice system that rates constantly in terms of public support at the highest levels. I would say that in the coming weeks we're going to have some new challenges that we don't normally face as a country and that is because there's going to be enormous pressure coming on and it's economic pressure fundamentally. It's the pressure that people don't have freedom of movement any more. They're cut off from their normal support networks. We know for a fact that all those things combined mean that people act out of character and the stress levels go up and so we're going to have to be very very careful and make sure that we remain very focused in terms of our response now as a country and that we're able to deal with that because I couldn't think of anything worse than us getting out through this current challenge focused on coronavirus and to look back and see that we've had some tragedies happen that were avoidable. So I'd say to the Minister: let's keep really focused on that let's keep working on that and making sure that we've got the best possible response in place for us as a nation in the coming weeks and months. But fundamentally I'm very happy to stand and support this bill. It is important. Just very quickly I think that the issue around making sure that people have got certainty and can comply in terms of the rented accommodation—I think this was very important. But the other point that I want to raise is that it's very good that you have contained inside the bill the fact that landlords still do possess some control over their property because there are a very small percentage of renters that tend to abuse that situation and do wilful intentional damage to genuine landlords' properties. I think that it's very important that the spirit of this bill is not taken and abused. There are still remedies available within the bill for landlords to be able to protect their property rights—and by the way for anyone out there that does want to go out and somehow think that they now have a licence to create as much damage or intentional damage to a property as they can there are still very clear rules inside our Crimes Act in which the police can act on that.So I think that it's been very important that we actually secure people's accommodation at this time. This bill has done that but at the same time it's also protected some fundamental property rights. So I'm very happy to stand and support this bill. Thank you."