Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. Last week in this House I mentioned the issue the crisis of cyber-security and ransomware threats to New Zealand and what a big impact that it was actually having on New Zealand and it seems like the Government really haven't paid much attention to this.Now more than 435000 New Zealanders—that is nearly 10 percent of New Zealand's population—are without adequate access to healthcare in the Waikato region. Their sensitive health data their personal details about their healthcare needs are still being held to ransom as we speak. It is the patient records their health information the digital medical tools and even the phone lines have been down and we're not hearing when it's going to be fixed. It may still continue to happen well past this weekend and that is a shame. That is an absolute shame and it's an absolute disgrace because it could have been avoided by this Government.As the Minister responsible for cyber-security policy under this Government Minister David Clark has failed the people of New Zealand. In his answer to my written parliamentary question he said—and I quote—As Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications neither I nor my officials have given any advice to district health boards regarding cybersecurity."—and I quote again—"As Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications neither I nor my officials have given any advice to district health boards regarding ICT operations."Hon Louise Upston: None at all?MELISSA LEE: Nothing. The Minister actually has officials across Government including multiple Government agencies including the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) and the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. This means that CERT New Zealand the Computer Emergency Response Team did not provide any advice to the DHB according to the Minister. That is the answer that he has given me. That means that the DIA scam prevention and digital safety team did not provide any advice according to the Minister. This means that the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet's National Cyber Policy Office did not provide any advice according to the Minister. Either the answer the Minister had in fact provided to me is wrong and he is accountable and will have to come back to this House to explain himself or the lack of action is a damning indictment on this Government's cyber-security priorities. That means the Minister—Hon Louise Upston: What's he done?MELISSA LEE: The Hon Louise Upston to your question "What has he done?": nothing it seems. He has not done anything to prevent these kinds of cyber-attacks. Last week as I alluded to the Health Research Council of New Zealand was brought to their knees because of the hacking and this Parliament's ability to scrutinise them during the annual review process did not happen. All the information that they were supposed to provide for their annual report was lost because of a hack.The Economic Development Science and Innovation Committee is currently undertaking a briefing into cyber-security. As soon as this news hit about the Waikato hack I have written a letter to the committee and I would hope that the members in that select committee will looking into it seriously because it is a question of openness it is a question of transparency and it is a question of public accountability. I call on the Government's Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications the Hon David Clark to take responsibility and apologise to the people of New Zealand—oh that's right he did not. He hasn't and it reminds me that he is in fact or was the Minister of Health who during the COVID lockdown decided to break the rules and went cycling. He went to the beach when everybody else was doing the lockdown. Simeon Brown: Oh that's right. MELISSA LEE: Well yeah it just tells me that this Minister has no sense of responsibility and I don't expect any apology from him. I think that—[Time expired]SPEAKER: Order! Order!"