Penk ChrisCHRIS PENK (National—Kaipara ki Mahurangi): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. I'll make my contribution a brief one; I was going to say a small one"—it might be small as well as brief. I do want to acknowledge various other speakers on this bill. We've had Mr Hipkins and Mr Bishop and now we've got Mr Penk so it does beg the question of what a collective noun of Chris-es might be—almost a "parliament"; not fully but we're working on it on this side of the House and the other one! But actually I do want to reiterate only briefly the points made around the National Party policy position on these which is to support the motion to the extent that it reflects the Government liberalising rules around COVID-19 restrictions. I won't rehearse all those arguments.But just by way of further illustration of the point that Mr Bishop had made I understand from another member of this side of the House that he and his family recently some five packs between them incurred $750 no less. I didn't actually ask him if it was Australian or New Zealand but in any case a fair price to pay for obtaining the necessary test to be certain of being able to board a flight back to New Zealand. I note that for many that would be prohibitive. So that's a disappointment. It sounds as though there was some element of price gouging on behalf of the—Todd Muller: Hear hear!CHRIS PENK: —provider of the tests—Mr Muller behind me says "Hear hear!" He has personal knowledge in the matter perhaps. I didn't actually ask his permission to associate his name with the story but in any case all the same I think it does illustrate that regulations that are unworkable will have unintended consequences such as that.Mr Hipkins spoke already about the process. I think it was gracious of the Minister to acknowledge the interplay between the legislature and executive—namely the Regulations Review Committee making recommendations—Rachel Brooking: Great committee.CHRIS PENK: —as the relevant Minister. I hear "great committee" from my colleague on that committee—deputy chair no less—Rachel Brooking. I was actually minded to acknowledge the whole committee for the extremely hard work that they've undertaken over this period of time. I see also Toni Severin in the House and various others who have graced us with their presence as substitutes. Actually I do want to take the slightly unusual step—and I hope that I'm not out of order Mr Speaker—of acknowledging the excellent advice that we've had from everyone associated with the committee. The legislative counsel have been magnificent. The slightly unusual bit I suppose is that I acknowledge by name Linda McIver who is no longer working with the committee. Others who have also served and remain on board indeed also provide excellent advice.But I think that the point the Minister made about the fact that there are fewer occasions for the Regulations Review Committee to write to the Government about concerns that we have with the order reflects the excellence of the advice that we've received because that in turn has allowed us not only to rely on that advice in itself but also to trust very much the providers of that advice. So we've leaned on that very heavily and I have no hesitation in acknowledging that.Of course—it feels a bit like the forward to a book—the responsibility of any errors omissions anomalies and so on of course belongs to the committee not the advisers. That's the nature of the lines of responsibility I suppose. But to the extent that we've been able to provide a useful service to the House and perhaps if I may to New Zealand more generally that reflects the support we've enjoyed.Of course the other point further to that made by Mr Hipkins around the fact that there have been fewer occasions for our recommendation of possible changes does indeed reflect that he has listened the Government has listened as well as we have spoken—but also of course the iterative nature of what we've been doing.So some months into this process—indeed some years I suppose I can say after at least a couple of them—and a number of amendments to the various orders we've all gotten a bit more used to it and the trajectory is good I think: just sort of straying back into that policy side of things that the committee doesn't dwell on but from the National Party perspective as I say is our view. So I join with Mr Bishop on this side and say that we support the Government's motion in this space to confirm these orders today."