Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Can I start by saying well that was a bold speech for a person who is so trusted by the Prime Minister he is the deputy leader of the Labour Party but not the Deputy Prime Minister. But I also want to say thank you very much to Anna Lorck for the pottle of Berocca she just delivered to me outside the Chamber. I appreciate that very much and I think that reflects the spirit in which she's taken this year.Can I start by saying thank you to our vaccinators because despite the back and forth in the Parliament this year one of the great things about New Zealand is that unlike other countries there is cross-party consensus on the benefits of vaccination. Everyone in this Parliament is vaccinated—that's not true in some parts of the world—and our vaccinators have done an outstanding job. Can I say thank you to the testers to the healthcare workers to our essential workers both inside and outside Parliament who have done an amazing job this year.Can I say thank you to the security staff here; the messengers one of whom said to me earlier today that I never smile around the building—that was news to me but I'm smiling at the moment. Can I say thank you to the Copperfield's staff particularly for the sausage rolls although that's sort of not really—I don't like to mention that these days for reasons that are reasonably obvious.Can I give a shout-out to Kiwis abroad. Now the Government calls them cumulative risks; over here on this side of the House we call them Kiwis. They have endured enormous hardship this year. They have been locked out of their country. Many of them have been unable to return and I want to pay tribute to them for their fortitude and the enormous bravery that many of them have shown at this time of very difficult circumstances. Managed isolation and quarantine is the monolithic bureaucratic State at its very worst. Devolving to bureaucrats discretionary decisions about life and death about funerals about medical treatment—it is horrific. There has to be a better way and in fact there is a better way.Can I also pay particular tribute to the split migrant families. I think we will look back in a few years' time on this part of our history with immense shame because this Government oversaw a situation where people who moved to this country in good faith were then split apart—due to ministerial incompetence or malice or both—from their families when the solution was staring them right in the face and it's to the tribute of our newly promoted immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford that people who would probably have just retreated into the shadows had their stories told. And it is to the Government's immense shame that they have not fixed those problems.We started the year with no COVID in New Zealand and we ended it with Delta spreading in our community. It's been a tough year. It was not the year of the vaccine; the second half of the year was—the second half of the vaccine—but we actually wasted the opportunities that we had left to us from the good work of New Zealanders in 2020 at the start of this year.It's been a tough year for the National Party but this seems to happen in Opposition. I'm heartened by the fact that the Labour Party took eight years and 10 months to get it together before they won Government. We've gone through our dramas in four years and the good news: we've expedited the process we've gone through all the various permutations and we've expedited the process.I just say to Labour: what will they campaign on in two years' time? They won't be campaigning on housing because housing is out of control. They won't be campaigning on child poverty because it's up not down. They won't be campaigning on a wealthier New Zealand because the forecasts out in the Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update show that over the next two years New Zealanders will get poorer in real terms. And good luck to the Labour Party at the 2023 election campaigning on a record of success that isn't there. New Zealanders are pretty tolerant people; they give Governments three years. They don't typically give them six unless they can point to a record of achievement.For a libertarian like me this year has been tough. We have given the Government enormous power. The big issue of 2022 is going to be: at what point do the mandates stop at what point do we stop dividing New Zealanders at what point do we start coming together as a country again? They can't go on for ever we can't continue to divide New Zealanders—we're going to need some answers from the Government next year.