Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Madam Chair. I just want to read out a text message to Minister Parker which I received earlier this week from one of the Auckland hospitality businesses that Christopher Bishop Christopher Luxon and I visited last week. I think it sums up the feeling of Auckland businesses quite well. He says Hey Erica can you give me a buzz? Hearing that Auckland might be in red till mid-January which would be catastrophic." Now the reason that he's texted me is because he has absolutely no certainty over what the support payments will be under this system whether he will get anything at all how long it will be for or what are the criteria.I've got a number of questions for the Minister but I want to just give some context around this because Auckland businesses who have not been able to operate under level three the hospo businesses and the personal service businesses that have been doing it the toughest—the first to go into lockdown the last to come out; the ones who have lost the most—have a lot riding on this and there is nothing in this bill to give them any confidence hence why they're sending me these messages. All they want to know is what will the criteria be what will the payments be and how will they be able to survive.Now I want to specifically ask the Minister because this came through really strongly in those hospo businesses and personal service businesses that we visited. They said to us "It's great that we're going to be able to operate for December. Four weeks—that's all we're going to get because once Auckland borders open Aucklanders will leave and for January and February there will be no business. We will be dead. There will be no Aucklanders here to visit the hairdresser the beautician the restaurant the bar—nothing."So what I want to ask the Minister specifically for is: is there any criteria? Will there be any criteria for these businesses to get support payments to pull them through January and February when there is absolutely no business in Auckland because I get the feeling that the Government just believes that if they start with the traffic light system in December then everything is going to be fine in Auckland under red lights. Well clearly from this text it's not going to be fine. Even if Aucklanders stayed in Auckland red still means for hospo limited numbers of people because of the social distancing and the limited numbers allowed in the business let alone the fact that there will be no Aucklanders there to support them through January and February. But under this system and under this bill there's absolutely no guarantee that they will have any support and that's why they're really upset.I visited a beautician in my electorate who started her business when she was 19. For the last nine years she has been living in a flat beneath her parent's house to save for a deposit on a house. She has lost all of that through paying her staff and paying her rent and paying her bills and paying the council—all of those ongoing costs—through level 3. She now is staring down the barrel of being able to open and do a few facials and massages and the things that she does for December and then nothing. She will have no business in January and she will have no business in February because as Aucklanders well know no one is going to be around. The question again for her is: in this framework will there be any support for her? What will the criteria be for those businesses who are staring down the barrel of nothing for those few months? They're worried about their provisional tax that they have to pay early next year and they're really concerned because they've got no certainty over what the level of support will be when it will kick in or what criteria they will have to meet and they are really worried that this Government has no idea about the situation that Auckland businesses especially those hospo businesses and personal services businesses will be in when Auckland empties out.I would like the Minister to answer the question: is there any support? Is he thinking about that scenario and will there be any support or any criteria for those businesses to get support through the traffic light system because they are terrified. They've already lost everything and they're staring down the barrel of losing more which is why they're texting us in a panic because they've got no certainty. That's all they're asking for and there is nothing in this bill."