SpeechHon TRACEY MARTIN (Minister for Children): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise on behalf of New Zealand First to take a short call supporting the COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill. Just to make some comments with regard to the contribution of the member who just resumed his seat Dr Shane Reti I do hope he's spoken to Gerry Brownlee because this piece of legislation just to be clear sets the capacity for a framework for a Government to put in place regulations that set the charging regime. So the legislation is very clear: it gives a Government the capacity to set regulations around a charging regime. That is why the Opposition is supporting it even though from the contribution from the member that just resumed his seat that wasn't necessarily clear.I would caution the member around the articulation of these concerns with regard to the consumers Act and so on and so forth that if Mr Brownlee finds himself in a position post the election that he will use this piece of legislation to put in place regulations that he and the National Party have articulated they want to do the member may find himself trying to actually counter the concerns that he is addressing today and with the attitude of the National Party if they end up in Government and what they say to the New Zealand public they are prepared to implement. At this stage all this piece of legislation does is give a Government—this one has set some regulations; the next one could set some others and if New Zealand First is part of any future Government we will renew we will review the regulations that have been put into place here. This is literally the minimum that can be put into place on the spectrum around the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act and some bill of rights advice that we have had as a Government but it has the capacity.What this piece of legislation does is give any future Government the capacity to build on top of those and the National Government—sorry you're not the National Government anymore—[Interruption] Well it's late and you know it's fantasy rules but if if if if for example—and on current polling it's way out but anyway—if for example they were in a position to make any decisions after the election this would give them the capacity to do it. But that member has just now highlighted for the rest of New Zealand that he's not necessarily concerned about the ability of taxpayers to gain back from people who are coming into the country who should contribute—and it is a contribution at this stage—to the costs of their quarantine and isolation. That is not what his concern is; it is not for the taxpayer of New Zealand which is different to what Mr Woodhouse articulated when he was on his feet but his concern is actually around the ability of people to complain which I find fascinating. In a global pandemic when you look at what is beyond our gate and what this Government has done to protect the team of 5 million the member who has just resumed his seat is more concerned around people's ability to complain about what we need to do to keep other New Zealanders safe than he is around the piece of legislation that we're putting into the House today.So New Zealand First will support the legislation. If we had our way we would be going a little bit further than what we have got here or the regulations that are in play but the reality is that this is a circumstance we haven't had since 1918—since 1918—and I think the Opposition forgets that when they decide to be flippant with any piece of legislation that is dealing with COVID-19 and perhaps they just need to continue to look beyond our borders at what is happening in other nations and see how paramount it is that whatever we need to do to make sure that we can stop community transmission inside New Zealand that is what a responsible Government does. And that is what this responsible Government is doing tonight.