Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (Deputy Leader—National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'll be speaking about the recent Northland outbreak today but it would be remiss not to offer a few reflections on the news of two positive cases today and segue that into the Northland discussion. First of all there are clearly positives and negatives to today's news. On net-net we need to offer some hope and some encouragement going forward. If we look at some of those positives the positive is that we were looking protocols were initiated people followed the advice and subsequently we have found another couple of positive cases.On the negative side one of the concerns has to be that the social network is increased—that is we've found another person with another social network—more specifically what appears to be the brother—and it's not clear that he was picked up in the first sweep and therefore all his contacts also widen and so our net is wider today. I think secondly if we imagine that the first grouping was a family—mother father daughter—and now we have a completely different grouping—that is we understand the relationships within the family those close contacts but now it's jumped across a classroom purportedly to another family. That's a worry. We've now jumped out of the family and across the classroom. So I think we need to take that into account for what it is. I am reassured by what we're being told that 75 percent of cases have come back as negative. I think that's a good thing but of course that's a negative in terms of if we're fishing where the fish are and that's what we're looking for—you know are we testing in the right place? So again just want to offer some sense of hope with today's news.I want to talk about the Northland outbreak and I want to put it in terms of a formula: Northland outbreak two weeks ago plus an abundance of caution equals our response today. How is our response today better with what we know about the Northland outbreak? What is the abundance of caution we could and should bring? I firstly want to talk about deep cleaning. There were approximately 31 retail locations in the Northland outbreak; not one of them was recommended to undergo deep cleaning. How can that be? We asked the Minister at select committee this morning and he said it's a case by case risk analysis. Well how did that work for the November outbreak in Queen Street? They all required deep cleaning but 31 Northland locations were not recommended to be deep cleaned. Here's what an abundance of caution would say: you deep clean if you've had a positive coronavirus case in your retail outlet. That's what today's response should look like if we apply an abundance of caution to what we learnt from the Northland outbreak. That's not to diminish the consequence to retailers—it's expensive the premises are shut down it is a burden; I do accept that—and I look and commend those retailers particularly those out at Ruakākā who took their own initiative and deep cleaned. They did the right thing. This is how we can make this response better.Secondly we need to understand why all of the Northland locations have not been identified. Why have the hairdresser and the Airbnb not been identified? What is the rule—I just want to know the rule; help me understand the rule—that says some locations can be identified but others don't need to be? I don't understand that; I want to understand that and I want to propose that an abundance of caution means all locations are identified. That's what a better response looks like.We've mentioned saliva testing; we've talked about it for several days now. We had eight- to 10-hour testing queues in Northland and I'm led to understand that saliva testing was offered to the ministry to help with those queues because as one can imagine if you've got 10 vehicles it's much more cost-efficient time-wise to go past each vehicle you've authenticated—you've got the labels you give each their spitting container and then you come back and pick them up rather than individually nasopharyngeal swabbing. This was offered to the ministry and my understanding is the phone was not picked up. That's also what a better response looks like.I just want to remind people of the four levers that we've got the only levers that we've got to manage coronavirus—we don't have antibiotics; it's a virus—other things that we can do. The levers we've got are testing; we can be tested. The levers we've got are isolation and social distancing. We've got tracing—contact tracing and COVID app tracing—and we've also got personal protective equipment. That's it—it's all we've got the only things we can do. It's all we can do for this—and that's all we ask of New Zealanders to do and that's all we ask of ourselves and of our organisation and of the infrastructure we're proposing.So what I'd like to think in conclusion is that we take the Northland outbreak we apply an abundance of caution and we get to a better outcome with better ways of managing coronavirus here today in this current outbreak. That's what I'm hoping this Government will do. Thank you.