Verrall Ayesha; Rurawhe AdrianCOVID-19 ORDERSApprovalHon Dr AYESHA VERRALL (Acting Minister for COVID-19 Response): I move That this House approve the following orders made under the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020:COVID-19 Public Health Response (Protection Framework) Amendment Order (No 7) 2022;COVID-19 Public Health Response (Maritime Border and Other Matters) Amendment Order 2022;COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order (No 4) 2022.This is another in the series of motions that ask the House to approve COVID-19 orders to ensure that they are not revoked within certain time frames. Today's motion approves three orders that came into course at various states between 16 April and 15 May. As Minister Hipkins has noted when moving similar motions in the past couple of months or so there are a couple of trends in their content.First the number of orders to be approved is diminishing as COVID-19 and our response to it evolves. This is to be welcomed as it signals a move away from the use of the extraordinary powers conferred upon the Minister by the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020. The second positive trend is that the Regulations Review Committee has once again expressed no concerns about any of the orders covered by this motion. This should not be taken as an indication that the committee has relaxed its vigilance. It has again produced comprehensive reports on all three orders and I thank the committee members and their chair Mr Chris Penk for their work. It is instead a result of the maintenance of the high standards that the scrutiny of the Regulations Review Committee has done so much to create. Thanks are also due to officials at the Ministry of Health and other contributing agencies and the Parliamentary Counsel Office—which has coped so admirably with the pressured workload that COVID-19 has brought in.The first order that the House is being asked to approve amends the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Protection Framework) Order 2021 to extend medical grade face mask covering requirements to vaccine mandated workers under the orange setting. It also allowed tertiary education providers to deny secondary school students entry to their premises if those students are not vaccinated and would carry out vaccine-mandated work as part of their programme.The second order represents an important step in the COVID-19 response as it removed the previous isolation and quarantine requirements and replaced them with the self-isolation regime. This aligned the maritime border with settings at the air border at the time it was passed.Finally an amendment to the COVID-19 Public Health Vaccinations Order 2021 expanded the range of vaccines a person may have so as to be recognised as having had a booster dose and provided for a new person conducting a business or undertaking - led exemption process that authorises an affected person to carry out certain work for 100 days without being vaccinated or receiving a booster dose.It is our intention not to bring too many more of these approved motions to the House. But we should recognise that the system put in place by the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act has underpinned our response to COVID-19 allowing the Government to respond quickly as COVID-19 has evolved supporting New Zealand to emerge with a strong economy and record low levels of unemployment.DEPUTY SPEAKER: The question is that motion be agreed to.