Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): Thank you Mr Speaker. New Zealanders did their part. We all did our part. We're asking the Government Did you do your part?" We believed. We stayed at home. We did our best to keep our businesses running. We did our best to keep people's jobs. People missed their operations their diagnostic tests their school exams. We all did our part. Has the Government done theirs?You see we believed we were all part of a team—a team of 5 million. Well the team of 5 million turned up and on game day the coach didn't have the right gear. We all trained during the week. We all went to practice. We all understood the plan. On game day the coach didn't have the right gear and hadn't started the clock. When we were told about Jet Park our highest quarantine facility for positive cases we were told all staff were being tested weekly—all staff were being tested weekly. Now we know they weren't and yet Ashley Bloomfield said he gave the Minister full and very regular updates on isolation testing. Who do we believe? We've heard the Government apologise for some of the situations. I have heard no apology to staff at Jet Park from this Government. So I will make it. I'm sorry. We will do our very best to work with officials to keep you safe while you keep us safe. Thank you for what you do.I do not understand why staff at all isolation facilities were not required to wear masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) until last Wednesday. How can that be? Staff at isolation facilities were not required to wear PPE until last Wednesday. The argument is that returnees stay in their room and when they come out of the room they're required to wear a mask and staff only have to mask up if they're more than two metres from those returning people. That's a hard problem. It's a hard problem in a hotel to stay two metres from someone coming and going let alone talking about the fomite the intangible objects that we believe some of the virus can live on. That's a hard problem. It actually would have been easier to say "Look we're going to require all of you staff—to keep you safe we're going to require all of you—to at least wear a mask and other PPE." Eventually on Wednesday the Government got to that position.A month ago in written question No. 14725 I think I asked Chris Hipkins exactly this. I said: can he qualify why staff in isolation facilities are not required compulsorily to wear PPE masks etc.? And he made this argument. So we were doing what we do; we were raising the questions to raise the bar. We were critiquing saying "Look we think this is a good idea. Can you think about it?" Yet three weeks ago it was taken on board but nothing was done until we strike the urgency of the Jet Park and the urgency of the Rydges.While we're talking about the Rydges hotel in Auckland the new genome is a puzzle. We understand that B.1.1.1. is the main cluster but now we've got our second genome and that's a real puzzle. It's a real puzzle to understand that connection to the woman who has also tested genome-positive to that same genome. That's a real problem that we all need to think on because that's going to be a second source. We know it's come across the border. There's no other place it could have come from. But then once that happened what happened then? That's when the genome testing is so important.I'd also ask for some reflection on the burning ember. Are we absolutely sure that this current outbreak is not a recurrence of what we saw with coronavirus wave 1? Are we absolutely sure that the Rydges case which we've seen is not a recurrence? I know it's a long time—it's 100-plus days—but are we absolutely sure that there's not some continuity of asymptomatic people passing it on or people who are too afraid to be tested because of the stigma which I hope we can all shift and change and say "No please you do us all a favour. You do us all a favour if you can be tested. If you are and you're positive thank you for putting your hand up. Here's some things you need to do but you keep us all safe doing that." I'm really hopeful we can all get to that position particularly for Māori who struggle maybe even that bit more particularly for some of my whanaunga up in far-flung distant areas like in the Far North where I really hope they're participating in this response.I want to talk about the international border and the statements that have been made today around our position. Let me be clear that we have always said that safety is first. We have always said that safety is pre-eminent before the border could be opened. And yet others have come to the same position: on 5 May when the Prime Minister in Australia said that the meeting discussed the possible trans-Tasman bubble where people could go between Australia and New Zealand freely and without quarantine—5 May. On 9 June the Deputy Prime Minister: "Rather than being confined or constrained by the states that are not succeeding with COVID-19 why don't we just deal with Tasmania for example and Queensland and start there? … no reason at all for us not to have started."On 8 August one day before our first positive test for the current response—remember that they were tested on Monday the 9th and it was announced on Tuesday the 10th—on 8 August 24 hours before that first positive test the Prime Minister said this: "Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed the Government is looking at the first significant loosening of New Zealand's closed border and strict visa regime since entering lockdown in March." So the Prime Minister herself 24 hours before we got that first positive test was saying "Maybe we should look at the borders." Maybe we've all been saying the same thing? But be absolutely sure: we were saying that safety comes first.Look the policies were not being delivered. The promises were not being kept. This team has been let down and now we just need to fix it. Thank you Mr Speaker."