Severin ToniTONI SEVERIN (ACT): Thank you Madam Speaker. Well we've been saying since November that we should've got rid of all these rules and we are still going to oppose these motions even though we're happy to see them here. Freedom day should've been on 1 December in 2001. The rest of the world—[Interruption] 2001 yes—have moved on; we are still haunted by the spectre of Michael Baker.Now I sit on the Regulations Review Committee and I can tell you that having only four COVID orders to go through is a lot better than what it was when I was first on there. And we are happy to finally see that we can see everybody's smiles. It is fantastic to be able to walk around and see strangers smiling and having a good time. But it's just been so long in the coming. The rest of the world realised that it was here to stay; we had COVID. Yes it's a new virus yes we're still learning about it but we've had to learn about other viruses all the way through. We've had so many viruses. Even when I worked as a laboratory assistant back in the late 1990s we had viruses that we had to overprotect because they were new—Hon Member: You were creating them in the lab!TONI SEVERIN: —and we weren't sure if they were going to be as infectious as this.Simon Court: Christchurch not Wuhan.TONI SEVERIN: Ha ha! But the thing is that we have been saying right from November that we need to get rid of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act and move on. It's been a long time coming and now just these four lovely little orders that came through on 12 September for us—no more mask wearing unless you're in the medical profession which is also quite sad because most of them are very very cautious of handling patients and things. Also to see our health professionals actually smiling at patients can help them a lot as well. And also most of us when we worked in the health profession if we felt ill we wouldn't go to work; we would ring up and not go there. So having no masks it just makes a world of difference to all of us.Then also the other one of the orders is the health response on the air border allowing people to come back into the country. It doesn't matter where you're coming from doesn't matter about your vaccination status it doesn't matter about isolation. However in the Regulations Review Committee we did have a couple of concerns that we did write to the Minister for COVID-19 Response and as we know this report here is still an interim report because we're still waiting for that response from the Minister on a few questions that needed to be asked.But I mean overall yes we are happy about most of this but these should've been gone long ago. I mean we still say freedom of choice. If you need to wear a mask please do so because most of us have someone that we know and we care about that may be immunocompromised or have other issues and they need to wear their mask if they have to. But also over the years with immunocompromised people you know they've had to survive through other winter flus and other things that are floating round. We've had measles outbreaks. We've had quite a few things. So by now we hope that they have themselves places organised to be able to handle any of these restrictions that are taken off. I'm pretty certain most of them would be very concerned and I'm concerned for them too because I have loved ones that are in that state but they also want to move on with their lives and not live in fear and that's the good thing: most of them have actually said I'm not wearing my mask anymore but I am still cautious."So overall we're happy they're here but we say they should've been out the door months ago. So ACT is still going to oppose this motion until all of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act is totally removed from New Zealand. Thank you Madam Speaker."