Shaw James; Hipkins ChrisHon JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'd like to start by congratulating the Minister on securing the 8 million Pfizer vaccines that he mentioned in his statement. I think that offers a great deal of reassurance to the country that the light is indeed at the end of the tunnel. I also want to say congratulations Minister on securing the Pfizer vaccine as opposed to some of the others on the market because apparently the evidence shows that it's about 95 percent effective versus 65 percent for some of the competing products. So I think that is very reassuring. Now that those have been secured can the Minister tell the House anything about the way in which the roll-out is going to occur for those vaccines and in particular looking at regimes similar to where they have in Australia where people kind of pre-qualify and are told which group they're in and are told roughly when that's going to happen and have the kind of assurance that comes from knowing when it is that you're going to be receiving the vaccine? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister for COVID-19 Response): The Government's already released the sequencing framework for the first group of people who are going to be getting the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine in the first quarter of this year. That work is already under way. So it starts with our border workers first and foremost. We're sitting somewhere about 90 percent of the way through doing that having had the absolute latest numbers based on today's experiences. But certainly we're about 90 percent of the way through that and we've made a start on their family and close contacts—you know the household contacts of those people—and also on some of our front-line health workers. So the people who are involved in taking COVID-19 test swabs—those who are more at risk because they're on the front lines of the health services. So that's going to take us through the first quarter. We then start to move into the second quarter where we're expecting a roughly equivalent number of people to be vaccinated—so around about another quarter of a million people in the second quarter. Then we'll get to the big roll-out in the second half of the year and we're expecting that to be spread right the way through the second half of the year. There'll be surge points no doubt but we're expecting the overall demand—we will have to manage the demand relatively smoothly through the second half of the year. We'll be releasing details of that tomorrow. One of the reasons that we have not released that prior to now is the decision about which vaccine we used and whether we used one vaccine or four different vaccines actually has an impact on the overall sequencing framework. Hon JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you. In the Australian system people go on to a website fill out a few basic questions it takes a very little time and then they're told which of basically five groupings they will be in right at the very beginning of the process and what that is able to do is to provide people with a sense of the time frame for themselves. Does the Government have any plans to replicate a similar system here in Aotearoa? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister for COVID-19 Response): It's a relatively simple and proved tool that they have and we could easily do something here in New Zealand as well or people could look at the list. The list is actually a relatively simple list and it will show people exactly where they are at in the sequencing framework and broad timetable. Just to run through the numbers: about a quarter of a million courses of the vaccine in the first quarter of the year about a quarter of a million courses of the vaccine—so that's the two doses—in the second and then we move later on in the year to the big roll-out in the second part of the year. Hon JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green): So will the schedule that gets published prioritise for example people who are immuno-compromised people who live in overcrowded conditions or who have precarious jobs where they're reluctant to get tested and take time off because they're worried about loss of income and so on? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister for COVID-19 Response): So I can assure the member that all of those things were considered in the sequencing framework and when we release that tomorrow he will see that all of those factors have been built in to the sequencing framework.