Kerekere Elizabeth; Salesa JennyDr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Kia ora. I rise on behalf of the Greens to support this bill at its final reading. In the Health Committee we were keen to maintain the health focus of the COVID response and reiterate that the Director-General of Health ensures that COVID orders are consistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. Delta has taught us that the old way of doing things is not cutting it now. So we accept that the new approach requires new orders new laws and new systems. We have to try and keep up with that. I suspect there will be many many more orders many more such amendments to legislation.In terms of managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities I've come to look at this as an issue of manaaki manuhiri. It is a tikanga of looking after your guest but also how those guests behave. That this tikanga plays not just at marae but at any time someone is looking after someone else speaks of generosity thoughtfulness and care. Thousands and thousands of New Zealanders and other visitors have come through those MIQ facilities. We want to acknowledge the border workers that are still there doing that hard work on behalf of all of us to protect that border. We with many other people in this country look forward to the time when those stays are much much shorter and when we get to a point when we don't need those facilities at all. However for as long as they are there however people may chafe at the restrictions they represent that is the current way of doing this and there are certain rules associated with this. We hope that with this bill we enable the staff there to do their job properly always with the intention that hopefully we will be able to phase this out sooner rather than later.I'm willing to speak on the issue about Māori Pasifika iwi and community wardens. This has been a hot topic this morning in the committee of the whole House and at question time. The nature of supervision by police of people doing those roles has been questioned at length. We note that the Minister responded to that by saying that the police have often called in other support to do their work including the army and a range of these wardens. We're not sure how it operates in other areas but our wardens work very very closely with Gisborne police. In fact they've had an office in the police station for many many years. They're valued members of the community because they provide a really valuable service. I acknowledge all of the wardens who have given up their time over many years. They are at all of our main events. They're often at our tangi and just knowing they're there helps us feel safer.As I understand supervision it's not about having a police officer looking over your shoulder while you're doing everything; it's that the police can get on with their other work because those wardens have been trained and have been proven to be reliable. They have earned the trust of the police and the police realise that in some cases it's much much better to send in the wardens because sometimes actually having the police there inflames the situation and escalates the tension and the wardens who are part of the community and represent the community will often calm things down. The fact is that once the border around Auckland is relaxed and we understand that the wish is that only people who are vaccinated or who have got proof of a negative result will be travelling we know that there's not going to be a check of every single car leaving the region. We absolutely support people being able to catch up with their family and go out and do the things they've not been able to do for a long long time. But we are very very conscious that in places like Tai Rāwhiti which has low vaccination rates we are in great danger of all the other people who will be on the road and are not vaccinated some of whom will be anti-vaxxers and will take great pleasure in exercising their ability to travel. It's entirely possible that there will be iwi check points around Tai Rāwhiti and other parts of this country and that's actually a good place for the wardens to be. With these delegated authorities they can help keep things calm make sure that things are done properly and people can just get on with things.As we stated in this House the main issue for the Greens around this legislation was the imposition of greater penalties. We discussed this at length and we thank the officials who kept going back and forward to get extra information for us to make decisions around this. We support a graduated penalty setting so that the scale of the penalty is based on the scale of the breach. The justice system is of course quite famous for sentencing processes that disadvantage Māori and we would certainly hope that this does not happen in this case.Finally privacy is a key issue for the Greens. I've had many members of the public contact me concerned that their personal information that is being collected for contact tracing will be used for other purposes especially by police and the justice system. The Minister has assured us it will only be used for this purpose and any breach will be an offence. I don't know how many people were sentenced and convicted with the latest breach of the ACC information but I'm not entirely confident that privacy is secure across all Government departments. So while we agree that anyone breaching that confidentiality should be held accountable in whatever form that is we hope that every safeguard that is possible is in place to protect the personal information of our citizenry because this is all of us and millions of bits of contact information are being collected every single day.In conclusion we support this bill and we commend it to the House. Kia ora.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The question is that the motion be agreed to.