Prime Willow-JeanWILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour—Northland): E te Māngai o te Whare tēnā koe otirā tēnā tātou katoa. Greetings. Afternoon everybody. It's really wonderful to have this opportunity in what I think will be my last general debate speech for the year. So in case I run out of time at the end I want to say it at the beginning: meri Kirihimete to everybody. It has been a really long and challenging year. I'm really looking forward to the Christmas break and some time up North with my family.But I want to talk about our move to the COVID-19 Protection Framework and the traffic light system. For COVID there has been no playbook—we've heard this—but I'm so proud of our team of 5 million. To my colleagues who are in Cabinet and to every single one of us who have worked together to protect one another we've done that by lockdowns by wearing our masks by scanning in by getting vaccinated to protect not only ourselves but to protect our communities. And thanks to our successful response we have protected lives and livelihoods. We have the lowest number of cases hospitalisations and deaths in the OECD and we should be really proud of that because we have worked so hard to protect those lives and to protect livelihoods. Our economy is in good shape. So I want to mihi to all of our teams who have been out there vaccinating.As I have travelled around Te Tai Tokerau in the last month since my last general debate I have seen vaccination waka outside Roma Marae in Ahipara at the Kaeō rest area as I was driving through last Friday at the Moerewa Christmas vaccination event at the Taipā Point Reserve Maheatai visit that we had recently the doctors' surgeries pharmacies our DHBs popping up all over the place as well as our Māori providers. It has been a huge effort. I'm really pleased to say that the Northland DHB advises that we are on the brink of 80 percent double vaxxed in Te Tai Tokerau and that is a huge achievement for us. We are apparently—hopefully fingers crossed continue to do the mahi—going to be 90 percent first dose by the end of December. We only need another 5500 more. So to anybody in Tai Tokerau listening today please be one of those 5500.I'm really proud and pleased to know that 93 percent of our Pasifika community are single vaxxed so far and 80 percent of Māori. But Delta is here now and our strategy has had to change. And as the virus adapts so too must we adapt and we are doing that. We're doing that by safely reopening by moving to the COVID-19 Protection Framework otherwise known as the traffic light system. And being in Northland there is some concern in our community. We do have the lowest vaccination rate in the country and we have many small vulnerable communities.I was reminded of this just last week during recess when we had the first COVID cases self-isolating in the small community where Dr Shane Reti and I come from. It was difficult for the community. This was a first for us. We had to respond. We had no notice no warning but I'm proud of how our community came together to yet again come up with a strategy and a plan to protect one another. What they did was within the same day we had pop-up testing in this small community and the people turned up to get tested. By the end of that week we had a vaccination bus returning to vaccinate in our community where there were a number who hadn't yet been vaccinated. We also wrapped awhi and support around that whānau who is self-isolating and so far we have not had any further spread. So it is a real risk and a real challenge for us in Te Tai Tokerau and I just want to acknowledge again the hard mahi that everybody is doing to ensure that we continue to save lives and livelihoods.I do want to use the last 30 seconds to talk about one other highlight from my recess and that was selecting my youth MP. I am proud to announce my youth MP is miss Tyissa Hape who comes from Bay of Islands College—my former high school. I'm really proud in being able to select her. I look forward to her getting an opportunity to participate in the Youth Parliament programme. She is looking forward to that opportunity. It also coincides with her final year at Bay of Islands College. Her kaupapa is around kapa haka and how it supports mental health and wellbeing and is also good and transformational. Nō reira e te Māngai o te Whare tēnā koe.