Kerekere ElizabethDr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Talofa lava. I will take a short call on this kaupapa succinct as I like to be. During the Budget speeches this evening we heard much about our economic recovery and how well we've done while COVID continues to ravage the rest of the world and in such an extraordinary environment though some freedoms were and some continue to be compromised.Lockdowns and level changes meant of course compromising our freedom of movement especially if you lived in Tāmaki Makaurau. Freedom of religion and belief was compromised when congregations could not gather. Freedom of speech was challenged when conspiracy theorists tried to derail the health messaging that we were putting out based on science and research—it turns out you can't win an election based on trying to mislead and manipulate. So those freedoms were compromised because in this case we've been prioritising freedom of health.I'm certainly thankful that I live in this country when all of these decisions have been made and of course the vast majority of us support how the Government has handled the COVID situation. It doesn't mean that there aren't some details that could be tidied up. Because of these sacrifices we can enjoy being with each other in large numbers—concerts sports on marae—we can largely ignore the awkwardness of elbow bumps which I always struggled with; and we can travel around the country without barriers. Most importantly for me it means I can attend tangi and funerals of people that we have lost—that was the hardest thing of COVID. To get where we are many decisions were made quickly and in some cases the legislation has not kept up with the policy or the action.This suite of orders appears to amend the regulations and clarifies the application of those agreed policies to be lawful. So included but not limited to are: enabling our travel bubbles; exempting people from managed isolation and quarantine who have come from those agreed quarantine-free places; stopping poor-quality of fake tests coming into our country; clarifying the testing process of workers who are required to have ongoing tests as part of their mahi; making sure people wear masks on aircraft; prohibiting people from arriving into Aotearoa from the high-risk countries. We note in terms of those prohibitions in those high-risk places: humanitarian grounds; people who are transitioning—not transitioning"; we're not talking about gender issues here!—who transit through a very high-risk country and remain airside; aircrew members; our defence force members returning; diplomatic consulate officers; and people who are landing here for emergency reasons.I support my colleague who spoke earlier in that I feel that one of the areas we have fallen down the most is in saying that we do have exceptions for New Zealand citizens their partners dependent children and parents of dependent children when we've brought people into this country given them visas allowed them to come here to settle and live their life and they've left their homes thinking that they will come here and of course bring their whānau with them. We have not done that. There are so many stories across the country where whānau still need to be reunited. I think this is a key area where people need to do a lot more work.Succinct as promised: all of this seems very sensible to us. We support the Government always doing things that are legal. We commend these orders to the House. Kia ora."