Genter Julie AnneHon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Green): Thank you very much Madam Chair. I actually wanted to rise and speak in support of the tabled amendment from Louise Upston that Penny Simmonds spoke to. I do think that we're in a difficult situation if we're relying on the Ministry of Social Development to rely on discretion and that probably a lot of people will be missing out. There's certainly been a lot of difficulties experienced by people who found themselves in Australia or elsewhere and unable to access an income as they've been trapped overseas. The one difference that we would probably have with this tabled amendment is that we actually think that there's probably a few too many hoops to jump through. It makes it bureaucratically complex. Just keep it simple if you were entitled to super before and you found yourself in Australia due to COVID then you're eligible for super payments as long as you're stuck there. I think that is a perfectly reasonable change and one that the Green Party will very much be supporting.We are really looking forward to what the Justice Committee has to say. I do think that we don't need to wait for that sort of report. If New Zealanders overseas haven't been able to return home for over two years because of a global pandemic they should still have the right to vote. We're an absolute outlier in the world in terms of restricting citizen's ability to vote when they're residing overseas and given that we're a country where many people do go overseas for extended periods of time then we think they still absolutely as citizens and people who pay attention to what's happening here at home in Aotearoa New Zealand should have the right to participate in voting. As someone who was born in another country and as a citizen of another country I can tell you that the United States doesn't impose these sort of restrictions on people's ability to vote although I do have to file US taxes which is an absolute nightmare. You guys have no idea how lucky we are here. If you've never seen US tax forms they're horrendous. Then finally just coming back to the points on the commercial tenancies—look we just think ultimately that these sorts of provisions should go all the way back to the beginning of the first lockdown. Even though the economy did bounce back it wasn't in an equal way. There will be people particularly in hospitality who have really struggled and struggled during the period of the first lockdown and still haven't been able to catch up and so it just makes sense. When we suffer these sorts of you know global phenomenon like a global pandemic where everybody is affected we just want to make it as fair as possible for everyone to be able to carry on. Obviously trade and many of the types of economic activity we were engaged in prior to the pandemic were restrained. Some types of economic activity have benefited from the pandemic. I'm sure Zoom has done really well out of it. Online meetings delivery services—so some have done really really well but it's not totally equal. I think it's just really important that we acknowledge that and our law acknowledges the changing circumstances and enables people to—I think what the Government's proposed is really quite reasonable because it is just asking for tenants and landlords to come to an agreement and be able to consider how the changes with the lockdowns has affected them and come to a sort of fair proportion.Finally I think we've moved on from Schedule 5 but of course we do have Supplementary Order Paper 70 which is about residential tenancies. I know that the Minister spoke to that earlier this morning. Unfortunately I don't believe the changes to the Residential Tenancies Act have gone far enough. Certainly if you talk to tenants advocacy groups and tenants' unions renters are still in quite difficult circumstances. We haven't gone far enough as a Government to provide protection and security for people renting with the Government's changes to the Residential Tenancies Act. So we do think that it would be appropriate to have a rent freeze during any sort of level 3 or level 4 lockdown. Really probably we need to go quite a bit further with protections for residential renters and that's why the Green Party has been campaigning generally on rent controls particularly during this time where we're waiting for the supply of housing to catch up with demand. It's created a situation where those who rent are in quite dire circumstances. Property owners are in quite good circumstances. They've got quite low interest rates to contend with. They have rapidly skyrocketing asset values and if that continues then they'll be really well off. But as a society we're not well off if we have a group of people who are increasingly in difficult circumstances because they're—[Bell rung]