Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Māori Development): That was a shocking presentation from Pāora Goldsmith. Obviously the National Party are getting very desperate now—they've back-ended Simon Bridges; he doesn't where the heck he is these days and Pāora Goldsmith leading off for them. I mean it's sad when we've had such great leadership from this Government in a pandemic this once-in-a-century pandemic and our Prime Minister having faced the biggest challenge perhaps since the Second World War. But here are the stats just for the National Party and for Chris Bishop particularly. In America we're talking about one death in every 450 people; in New Zealand it's one death per every 175000 people. So despite all the criticism all the rubbish all the nonsense from the Opposition our strategy has saved lives—saved lives. OK it hasn't been perfect; you know we've sort of said that. There's been a moving feast of problems but we will be judged by history and when people remember us they'll realise the priorities that we put aside. They will realise that there's been low hospitalisation rates there's been low death rates that's been connected to the strategy that we went down to start off with which was to vaccinate the vulnerable the old people and the over-65s. That's why we've had so few deaths. This is a successful COVID strategy. I know the Opposition don't—David Seymour: Why are we still locked down?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: —understand this particularly the self-appointed Leader of the Opposition" David Seymour. If we want to look at the alternatives we only have to look at the rubbish and nonsense that Mr Seymour rolled out. The self-appointed "Leader of the Opposition"—SPEAKER: Order! I am sorry to interrupt the member. Mr Mitchell you might have a speech later in the afternoon but you've still got to wear your mask. You can't take it off ages before. Thank you.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Thank you Mr Speaker. Yes come on Mark Mitchell control yourself. Mark Mitchell should know that David Seymour's strategy is that he wanted managed isolation and quarantine to be a bed and breakfast—he wanted it to be a bed and breakfast for rich people. The ACT argument was to allow the free market to decide the casualty rate. ACT wanted to reopen the country before we even closed the borders. That was the ACT strategy. At one point ACT was suggesting a lottery for everyone using the QR scan until it was pointed out to them that incentivising people to go to places they don't need to go to during a pandemic was a bloody stupid idea. That's the ACT strategy for you. Now National went beyond stupid ideas. For the last year Judith Collins has flirted with extremism and conspiracy. It's been very sad. From Gerry Brownlee asking questions about conspiracies last year to Judith Collins' never-ending race-baiting and divisive rhetoric. It's been a sad presentation from the National Party and as you can see they're all hanging their heads in depression hoping that they're going to get past 25 percent in the next poll.National hasn't added any real solutions to COVID beyond sowing the spite that erupted out into Parliament yesterday. Both National and ACT are responsible for that. They whipped up that foaming resentment and they've fostered it. They should hang their heads in shame. We simply save lives—that's all we do. Every day we've got a Prime Minister who trots out and the country loves her still. If National and ACT were running the country during this pandemic COVID would have already burnt unconstrained throughout every community and Judith Collins would pat herself on the back for keeping businesses open while the hospitals and morgues filled right up.It's not just ACT and National though who have been stubborn and slightly disingenuous; it's been the Māori Party too and I don't like to criticise the relations but they've claimed our policy was modern genocide on a par with the Squid Game's murder camp. They want to lock us down for the next 10 years at level 6 and to date we've had 10 Māori die which is a tragedy for the whānau—don't get me wrong—but it is as offensive in terms of claiming genocide as it is as puffed up as Rawiri Waititi's hat.So I say to everyone today "Compliment this Government." It's been a wonderful presentation from our leadership. Our response to this terrible pandemic while not being perfect—and some might have said it's been a bit slow—has worked in terms of how we've worked with our bureaucracy. I'm saying with almost 90 percent of people vaccinated New Zealanders can attest that we are the Government rather than having endured the bleak misery that you would have got from a useless rotten ACT-National Government. Kia ora."