Walters VanushiVANUSHI WALTERS (Labour—Upper Harbour): Mr Speaker tēnā koe. There's an important social convention as old as time that's unrecognised often in terms of its importance as part of our social contract. It's the little nod to strangers as we pass them. It's also how we ask our neighbours how they're doing. It's the acknowledgment of a person. It says very simply I see you. And in the unusual times we've been in especially in Auckland these small acknowledgments and the ability to see the broader community around us has taken on a much bigger meaning.Our COVID response plan has always been to put people first to make sure we have a health response where everyone's acknowledged and seen but to do that we also needed people. We needed New Zealanders to put people first and they did. And that's why we'll soon be able to move to the new framework system. That's why in December we will be able to open up a wee bit more so people can see their extended families. I want to talk specifically about the experience of Auckland like many of my colleagues and Upper Harbour specifically. I'm really proud of the vaccination rates in Upper Harbour. Hobsonville Point has already reached the 90 percent fully vaccinated rate putting it in the top 2 percent of suburbs in New Zealand. Greenhithe is also sitting above 90 percent for a first vax and in the high 90s for the second. In the recent data Bayview West was only 92 doses away from being 90 percent fully vaxxed; Bayview East 43 doses away from reaching 93 percent fully vaxxed; Bayview South 45 doses away from reaching 90 percent fully vaxxed and West Harbour Clearwater Cove—117 doses away from reaching 90 percent fully vaccinated. We're getting close. We can see that line that 90 percent coming up so closely.Part of the reason we have such high vaccination rates has to go to those DHBs those volunteers but also those community organisations who've been doing so much out there to get our people vaccinated. And I have to mention here the extraordinary work of The Fono in West Auckland. Last week the Prime Minister Minister Sepuloni and I visited The Fono on Westgate Drive. Tevita Funaki Tapuai Fa'amalua Tipi and The Fono team have demonstrated care but also agility in how they've responded to the challenge of vaccination. They have been providing a wraparound service and in the 178 days between 11 May and 5 November The Fono team administered 72098 doses of the vaccine. Incredible. It's also the work of community organisations like Rachael Pates and the team at Bayview Community Centre who contacted me to ask how they could help what they could do. They hosted a vax bus at the Bayview Community Centre which meant that people and their families could simply walk down and get vaccinated. There's no doubt that this has been an incredibly tough time for our Aucklanders for Auckland whānau but whenever I've spoken to Aucklanders they share two things with me. Firstly they talk about the fact that it feels different when there are community cases in your community the risk feels closer and especially when the vaccination rates have been low. They talk about concern for older members of the community for kids going back to school and for the immuno-compromised. What they describe to me has felt like a description of the proximity of the risk for them in Auckland—feeling quite quite different. There's an understanding in Auckland among so many that while it's hard it's worth it. And more than anything else what I've felt when I've been speaking to Aucklanders over these last several months is there's a deep sense of pride that we're doing it for each other. Those little nods behind the masks as we take our socially distanced walks have such a significant and different meaning for us Aucklanders. Kia kaha.