Ngarewa-Packer Debbie; Rurawhe AdrianDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Kia ora. First of all Te Paati Māori would like to commend the Government for the work that they've done in our COVID response. We went fast we went hard and certainly we see in Aotearoa that it's in a better position than a lot of other countries. We decided as Te Paati Māori to not attend Waitangi Day actually to protect our community. We could see that it's important for those in our takiwā those in our rohe to understand and to see that they are not an option for Auckland holidaymakers. So we've been really mindful through the levels of our vulnerabilities of our Māori health inequities and the fact that we are 10 to 15 years often out of health issues in comparison with our Pākehā whānau. We've experienced also the devastation of past epidemics so when it comes to levels we are unapologetically conservative protecting our w'akapapa. And yes the team of 5 million has worked very well; we also would like to remind that the team of tangata w'enua have worked shoulder to shoulder. We've worked within Whānau Ora our iwi our hapū our iwi checkpoints food testing—it's what we do as Te Tiriti partners to manaaki and protect all within our w'enua. So we commend the levels.However there's been confusion with the levels in particular this last one. We think and we see level 3 because we have a UK strain that's come through Auckland. We can understand the rest of the decision for Aotearoa to be in level 2. We don't understand why there's level 2 in Taranaki when we have the UK strain that has been visiting our district. I guess one of the things that we can see—and today we've seen also comments from Ngāti Rangi their concern as a small town and that it actually wants to emphasise that if we have those who have carried community risks and COVID strains into our towns then we deserve and should be locked down and treated with the same levels of respect. So we do raise some concerns of the inconsistency.We also are concerned with the way that the levels have been relayed this particular time around in how the Ministry of Health has created its dispatching. So we've seen and read in letters from the Ministry of Health that there'll be a million masks distributed to Tāmaki-makau-rau and to Taranaki yet when we speak to every Māori health provider they haven't heard anything. When we speak to our largest Māori health provider Whānau Ora that has six Māori primary health organisations they haven't been contacted as well. So we do want to remind that during these levels tangata w'enua were extremely proactive and in fact led the charge in amongst the team of 5 million to protect our nation. We also implore that during these levels we remain calm and we give a really good sense of leadership. But one of the things we do have to ask is if we have one part of our nation in level 3 and another part where the same strain has visited what happens if this transmission is found in Taranaki? What is it that we're doing when we have parts of our nation in level 2? So I think from Te Paati Māori's perspective our role is obviously to bring to light tangata w'enua issues who as levels—we've often said amongst ourselves amongst our whānau on the ground Live or think level 3 and then we get to be able to stay in level 2." So we've always been as I emphasise particularly conservative about our levels. We've seen the determination of tangata w'enua towards the success of what this nation has achieved. We saw us amending our tangihanga. We saw us step up in COVID responses. And largely we make up the front-row workers who continue day to day to do the amazing job that they're doing to protect our nation. So it's a concern as we talk about as we move into the newest part of how we're asserting our levels in Aotearoa. We implore that we have consistency. We implore that if we're going to have community transmissions down from one part of the motu into another we actually apply the same levels. We also want to make sure as tangata w'enua that we're considered and are part of the consistent response and we're included and factored when levels are being made.Times are unprecedented for us as a nation but they're not unprecedented for us as tangata w'enua who need and have to make sure that the health response factors in our inequities and it factors in the needs that we have. So we do actually ask that we continue to do a review and that the levels are continuously adjusted to consider us as whānau and most importantly to consider us as your tangata w'enua. Kia ora rā. DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call the Hon Aupito William Sio—five minutes."