Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Thank you Mr Speaker. What a time. What a time to be in the New Zealand Government. What a time to be a New Zealander. All eyes are on us from all around the world because of this pandemic that we've been struck with. Not only has this Government had to as my colleague Tracey Martin said deal with the fallout from an eruption Whakaari / White Island but also the terrible tragic incident that happened in Christchurch—that was also something this Government's had to deal with not least the pandemic. All eyes are on us and how we've behaved is actually something that gives me heart. I was out and about in my electorate last week and I was constantly having conversations with the Māori constituents that I represent and what they were talking to me about was the partnerships that happened during the COVID crisis. They talked about the partnerships between the DHBs and our iwi and Māori health providers. They talked about the partnerships between the police and some of our local community iwi—community safety checks that were happening all around New Zealand. They were also talking to me about Whānau Ora and about the funding that the Government had given to Whānau Ora to be able to do the community outreach into really hard-to-reach communities to make sure that they were looked after. The partnership between our Māori communities our remote Māori communities and also our civil defence—who basically had their phone line open and people that were struggling were able to call the phone line and get help pretty quickly. So I commend this Government for the work that we did in making sure that we honoured our Treaty partnership and worked together with our Māori communities during the COVID crisis. But actually the biggest partnership was our team of 5 million because it was our team of 5 million that all took some personal responsibility. We all stayed home. We all stayed safe. We kept in our bubbles. We looked after ourselves to make sure that actually we're now in a stage where we're at level 1. There were a lot of jubilant people that I was talking to saying how great that we are at level 1. I want to acknowledge the work of the Prime Minister in this because she said and she has said all throughout this—since we've been in level 1—she said we will have new cases. This will not be the end for New Zealand. There will be new cases. She was honest about that and she owned that just like today as she took her press conference and stood up there and owned this conversation. The Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield he owned his part in this as well. It's a tragic thing to happen to our country but actually it was the Opposition who were saying Let's get those borders open—let's get them open. Let's start the planes coming in from overseas." So actually there's a couple of stories going on here and actually I want to again acknowledge the Prime Minister. She said from the start that we will have new cases here in New Zealand.The system that we've got is as good as we can be but we're human and actually humans make mistakes. The Opposition saying that they are infallible and they never make mistakes—well actually they're wrong. They're wrong because we know from the last nine years that they had in Government that actually they did lots wrong. They dropped the ball on so many issues that this Government has had to pick up. So I want to acknowledge that.Our country is in a state of responding to the crisis recovering and also rebuilding and it's going to take a while. This isn't a silver bullet that's going to fix all of this. There's going to have to be a range of initiatives and a few of the things that give me heart—because when I think about the fallout from this I think about unemployment. I think about my Māori communities that I represent. I think about how the Māori unemployment rate is generally twice what the general unemployment rate is. So I fear for those communities and for those whānau where they're going to have people that have lost their jobs and the impact that they're going to have. But I'm heartened at some of the stuff that our Government is doing—not least actually apprenticeships: making sure that if we want to take some of our workers who have found themselves unemployed and redirect them back into an apprenticeship to get themselves a trade to get back on to the employment ladder then let that be so. It's our Government that have scrapped fees from 1 July so that that can happen.The investment in Budget 2020 for Mana in Mahi and He Poutama Rangatahi are things to make sure that we've got transitions for our people that have found themselves without work but not least in tourism. I represent a significant amount of tourism operators in my electorate and they are hurting right now. But we've got some plans in place. We've got the tourism strategic partnership the strategic assets partnership and we've already had some information dropped on that. It's going to be a long road but we're getting there. Thank you Mr Speaker."