Bishop Chris; Hipkins ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you Mr Chair. A couple of comments. The first is just in passing really which is to ask the Minister to get the officials to look at the traveller declaration form that people are having to fill out to enter New Zealand. In the last 48 hours I've had a number of people contact me. The borders are reopening obviously. Kiwis are starting to come home. A lot of people were reporting problems with the traveller declaration form—the online form you've got to fill out. I personally didn't have an issue with it. But I think for those who are maybe a little less computer literate—without blowing my own trumpet too much—people have had issues with it. Particularly I'm getting reports that people who are in transit—I think from Europe via Dubai Qatar and Singapore—the system doesn't cope well with people who are taking long flights with transit destinations. So that's the reports I've had. I'm happy to send the Minister a couple to his office.David Seymour: Chris Bishop will help you.CHRIS BISHOP: I haven't been to Singapore or Dubai Mr Seymour. It won't be for a while. But I'll just pass that on.The second is the Minister made an interesting admission—or at least an interesting comment—around the fact that the reason non - visa waiver people are not allowed to enter New Zealand yet is not a public health issue; it's an immigration issue. I know the Minister's not responsible for this technically in his COVID-19 capacity but it does raise the question as to what the Government was doing in the immigration department for the last two years. There haven't been visas—or there have been very few visas—issued in New Zealand for the last two years. I think it's well known that the immigration department has longstanding IT and technical issues and it is a complicated computer system. No one disputes that. Immigration law as anyone who's been an MP—particularly electorate MPs—will know is highly complex. You sometimes think your electorate staff end up becoming immigration lawyers alongside their more pastoral work. But it does raise the question as to what the Government was doing in the last two years to not try and identify and fix some of the issues in the immigration system such that when the borders did reopen—as they are now starting to—we don't have this very very long lag time between early February 2022 and October. It is an extraordinarily long length of time and as my colleague David Seymour says is going to put quite a lot of hardship on quite a lot of people. So I think a lot of people will be asking themselves that question and I hope the Government is too.Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister for COVID-19 Response): Just in terms of the traveller declaration system thank you for the feedback. I'll certainly take that one away and have a look at the issues the members raise. In terms of the immigration issues that the member raised as I've indicated I would note that that is the responsibility of the Minister of Immigration. But I would also note that we did make a decision in recent times to provide those people who are currently in New Zealand with a pathway in order to be able to stay here and that has resulted in a significant increase in workload in terms of immigration processing.