Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. When the news of two further COVID-19 cases broke yesterday I was reasonably concerned obviously but not alarmed because we were told by the Director-General of Health that we could expect further cases and they would come across the border and that they would sprout up like weeds on a lawn. Well the more we found out about this the more alarmed I got and I have been overwhelmed with messages of absolute horror anger and frustration at the fact that the team of 5 million have done their bit and the Government is asleep at the wheel when it comes to keeping this virus out. Late last night I received a message from a reliable but confidential source that informed me that the story of the non-stop trip by this pair from Auckland to Wellington was not all as it seems and that is that they did become disoriented and lost their way coming out of Auckland and needed help to get on to the right road. They called on acquaintances who they were in close contact with and that was rewarded with even more close contact: a kiss and a cuddle. Now the car was borrowed and my question is how was that obtained—how did they pick it up? They don't live in Auckland. Therefore it must have been through another exchange of contact with somebody in order to commence the journey and of course did they stop at all along the way for petrol comfort or food? Plausible questions for an implausible scenario. Now I'm not getting at them but I do think the director-general—and the Minister must call on the director-general to further explain and inquire about whether or not we know all there is to know about this case because the public need to know. They have done their bit. They are aghast that this could happen in the ham-fisted manner that it has. I'd like to be able to say that it's an isolated case. Unfortunately many more correspondences have been received into my office in the last 24 hours and I'll remind members about what the director-general did say about testing for people in managed isolation. He said a few days ago—I think it was on 9 June—everyone in managed isolation will be tested twice" during that period whether they have symptoms or not at "around day three and around day 12". Well I'll give you just a sample of the messages that have come into my office that say that that is not happening. From Grant—a friend—"Four days after flying in from Dubai no COVID test yet. Today asked to fill in a form for a test but found that it was purely voluntary." Another one: on day four in isolation at Rydges in Auckland she is saying "There is no effort by the staff to separate people from the first week of isolation into the second week thereby making it ineffective." When she raised concerns to the nurse about the people coughing on the bus—no one was wearing masks—she was asked to provide names but obviously how would she know their names? "Testing is optional at day three and day 12 and encouraged but not mandatory." and I go back to Dr Bloomfield's comment that everyone in isolation will be tested. Well that is not happening and in fact what's happening in these managed isolation facilities is that they could well become the very vector that we're trying to avoid because the Government—remember—could not manage self-isolation. They could not contact the people who decided to self-isolate so they put them all under quarantine. They can't manage quarantine. What do they do? They call in the army. I mean this is as ham-fisted as it gets led by a Minister of Health that is completely disinterested in his portfolio and completely overwhelmed by it but out of his depth. I must say that when a very measured and somewhat mild-mannered reporter in the form of Collette Devlin from the Dominion Post writes what she wrote yesterday we know we've got a problem. She said "Incompetence was shining through. He was unable to answer questions"—this was at a release which he was meant to control on Sunday and he should have been across the issues. He shifted questions on the announcement to a hospital staffer and "To top it all off he managed to misquote the budget allocation" which the funds were coming from. The Leader of the Opposition said it in his call: how much incompetence does there need to be in order for this Prime Minister to fire a Minister? Well clearly a heap because it cannot get more incompetent than the Minister of Health. He should go."