Willis NicolaNICOLA WILLIS (National): Mr Speaker? Oh sorry.SPEAKER: Oh sorry. No it is a National call so I call Nicola Willis. Thank you. I'd be a bit impolite really.NICOLA WILLIS: National welcomes alert level 2. We accept the need for a legal framework for enforcement of the requirements under level 2 and we share New Zealanders' sense of the collective achievement that together our compliance with restrictions under level 4 and level 3 has allowed to occur: our low transmission rate. And we share the relief that we have been spared some of the worst that we have seen occur overseas.But we in National are also very alive to the growing sense of concern and frankly despair by too many who have been unevenly impacted by these restrictions and who fear they will go on for some time to come: businesses but not just businesses families with relatives who may die soon families unable to visit their loved ones to spend time with each other at times of grief. And we on this side of the House feel a sincere and solemn duty to scrutinise the bill before us today with that in mind but also in mind of the social contract that New Zealand has had over these past seven weeks that we will accept restrictions on our freedom where they are proportionate to the risk that we face.With this bill there are questions that we have of principle of process and of how it will be applied in practice. We do not think that the broad-ranging powers granted to the Government in this bill are proportionate or justified under level 2. I accept that New Zealanders may listen to me tonight and say Well that's what you say about the bill but I think I'll just believe the people on the other side." So I want to quote for you what the Ministry of Justice said in their report which they provided to Andrew Little assessing the consistency of this bill with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: "The Ministry of Justice acknowledged that this bill places unprecedented limits on rights and freedoms of association and movement." The ministry went further; at paragraph 38 they say "Together the potential requirements that can be imposed by orders under clause 10 of the bill could if applied to their fullest extent impose arguably the most extreme and significant limitation on New Zealanders' ability to go freely about our daily lives as has occurred in modern New Zealand history." So we must not underestimate the significance of this bill and its reach and therefore the role we as an Opposition must play in our parliamentary duty in scrutinising it.So what are the issues of principle at stake? Well first of all this is a stand-alone legal framework that grants extensive powers to the Government to issue orders broadly as it sees fit. There has been argument on the other side that there are sufficient safeguards here. Well the safeguards imposed simply require that the Minister think there is something to prevent and that the Minister of Health agrees that that is the case.The powers have been created in a process of extraordinary haste. We saw this bill at 5 p.m. last night—all three readings today; no select committee process despite a recommendation that there should be one; no prior engagement despite National's gesture of goodwill that we agree that a legally enforceable framework is needed and are prepared to work with the Government on it. The signs of haste are all there. Today the Minister introduces a 23-page Supplementary Order Paper amending problems in this bill and the Minister argues "Oh we didn't have time for a select committee process." Minister Parker we have been in lockdown for seven weeks and you should have envisaged that level 2 would come one day and be prepared with the legislation needed to enforce it. I do not accept that a select committee process is not needed.The context here is that we did know that level 2 would come one day and the Government did not prepare. In practice we already have reason to be concerned about the arbitrary and contradictory way that orders may be imposed under this bill. We have spoken in this House of funerals and the grief that can't be shared by friends and family. The report by the Ministry of Justice doesn't even acknowledge the freedom to worship as a potential issue of right. The issues of enforcement of warrantless entry—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."