Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker and also thank you to the previous speakers as well. I'm like the last speaker Chris Penk: I wear a bunch of hats. I've literally got one on my head right now! Thank you for the detail that you went through with the Regulations Review Committee. Going through that detail I think is really important as is acknowledging how fast things are moving. Things are moving very very very quickly. My understanding with these orders is that they were predominantly made during the period of phase one and two of the Omicron outbreak as case numbers initially grew slowly while contact tracing was able to limit the spread. They also cover the beginning of phase three as numbers increased quickly and contact tracing and isolation requirements subsequently changed as well. As I flicked through them I noted that the main issues that were covered were self-isolation requirements for contacts at various points of the outbreak and border controls isolation and testing requirements for incoming travellers. The Minister and the member before both picked those things up.Some of the orders—there's a few of them and I do appreciate that they have moved quickly. I'm just looking at a couple of them here like the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Protection Framework and Other Matters) Amendment Order 2022—that's such a long long name—which was an order made to strengthen the rules around masks and face coverings to make it mandatory for a mask to cover both the mouth and nose and have straps that go around the ear or head and extending the mask mandates to children under 12. For some of those ones we're here to confirm it but actually the deadline has been and gone because things have been moving so quickly such as the COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Order (No 2) 2022—another long order name—SL something or other". This was to change the deadline from 15 February to 25 February to get a booster shot for someone who is in the health and disability sector. I appreciate how fast things are moving and we do need to be nimble. It's great to see that the Parliament has seen that we can make our response as quick as possible and as nimble as possible. I do worry though sometimes—particularly within the context of the announcements made last week—whether we in moving so fast have missed the opportunity to actually take a pause to really ground ourselves on those sorts of issues and those sorts of voices that we should be listening to. For me there's been a lot of noise. There's been a lot of banging on the business drum and folks outside on the Parliament lawn were loud. We could hear all those issues. But then we couldn't hear the voices of some of the other communities. I worry about the speed of things and the shifting of focus away from immunocompromised and disabled whānau and what this means for Māori and Pasifika leaders and—as a parent myself—what this means for parents and teachers. And I know that people have been reflecting on how it feels like we're going back to normal but the pandemic isn't over—we've had a number of deaths today as well as over the past week as well—and I think it's really important for us to continue to hold on to that. Yes we need to be nimble. Yes we need to be quick. Yes we need to adapt to the situation as best as we can. But we also need to remain grounded in the fact that this pandemic is actually not over.For me that throws up a whole lot of issues—and I expect these will come up somehow somewhere and will probably show its way at the Regulations Review Committee in some way around what we do around clean air standards for adequate ventilation and air filtration because that's going to become a bigger issue. What are we going to do about what that means for schools and what does it mean for public buildings? Access around making sure that teachers and staff at all the schools get access to N95 masks as well. As I'd been talking to friends of mine about the impacts of long COVID—I mean what does that mean particularly when it impacts our rangatahi when it impacts our children as well—then I think making sure that we hold on to those things that have gotten us through. And sure things have moved—and I was just thinking about the traffic light system and the system we had before and the importance of kind of acknowledging that this pandemic is not over. We're in this particular Omicron wave at the moment but who knows what the next wave is going to look like? It could be more severe—so making sure that we hold on to those lessons hold on to those details as well and of course making sure that we have that equity in vaccine roll-out for boosters and for kids particularly for Māori in rural areas for our tamariki Māori. And I noted a couple of weeks ago the high levels of hospitalisation of Pasifika as well. And then what does it all mean for workers as well around workplace health and safety and those kinds of things?So yes acknowledging the nimbleness and the speed at which we can do things—and that's a great thing in being able to have that flexibility—but hey let's continue to be grounded and to filter out the noise and listen and focus on those voices that we need to be listening to: the voices of immunocompromised whānau disabled whānau. What does it mean for Māori and Pasifika communities? What does it mean for school communities? What does it mean for parents who are navigating all of this stuff with our parents at school? And then of course what does that mean for our young tamariki in early childhood education settings as well?On that we will be supporting these orders but also a reminder to all of us I think that let's continue to stay grounded and to recognise actually this is not over that people are in hospital and that people are dying. And let's continue to reach out to each other and to really hold on to that whole idea of being a team of 5 million. And so on that I commend these orders to the House."