Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. While I'm loathe to be here instead of on a Zoom meeting of our Parliament I rise to take a call reluctantly on behalf of the Green Party in support of the motion to approve these latest COVID orders. The reluctance has nothing to do with the orders just with having to be here undermining our effort of providing—[Interruption]SPEAKER: Order! Put your mask on!JAN LOGIE: —strong clear leadership as that was another example of to the country about taking this virus seriously and if we've got the ability to work at home then we should be doing that because this is a serious issue for us as a country. As much as I enjoyed listening to the history of Chris Bishop's participation in the Regulations Review Committee it does not seem to me a priority for the business of this House.So to speak quite briefly to these orders we are supporting them. The first one as outlined by the Minister is to extend the groups of people and the workplaces where people may be required to have a vaccination. Where previously it was managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities and front-line borders it has now been extended and this order does that including ports. It also provides exemptions for affected people who do not interact with air crew crew of affected ships or international transiting or arriving passengers so it's not a blanket covering in every workplace. It refines also the clause of the principal order regarding who may grant exceptions and under what circumstances. I note in here there's a clause for the Minister on providing better guidance on when they might grant an exemption and that is partly to do with supply chain issues which also links in part to our ports.While that was brought up by the previous National Party member the low rates of vaccination in ports I would like to do a call-out at this point to Lyttelton Port. That has a very high rate of vaccination which I understand is because the management of that port has been working incredibly constructively with all of the unions on site and because the delegates being the staff members themselves have been able to provide that leadership for everybody else in the workplace giving them that confidence and undermining any hesitancy and misinformation. That really is the model that the Green Party would like to see in the future. There is talk about compulsory vaccination and penalties for people who may not be vaccinated but we want to start from a conversation about where are our social networks that we can lean into to support people to get vaccinated as we know they need to be—and I will come back to the core point Mr Speaker.So the second order is around the public health response air border expressly providing that only quarantine-free travel persons may arrive in New Zealand on an aircraft undertaking a quarantine-free travel flight—seems pretty straightforward. I think we're all on the same page on that.And the last point the order applies to diplomats consular officials and certain New Zealand Defence Force members. Just on this point and their exemption around the requirement for quarantine—just for clarification the consular and defence personnel covered by this order were already exempt from the general obligations of a negative COVID test in isolation or quarantine infringement liability in the principal order as it was made last year. So this order just extends that exemption to ensure they aren't captured by the other quarantine-free travel obligations that sit in separate clauses. The reason for that exclusion is around international norms around diplomatic relationships and it does not mean—I want to give people an assurance and we've asked the questions—that they are coming into New Zealand and putting us at risk. There have been conversations and there are protections in place for them to follow but it just is not covered in the same way through our law as for other populations. So the Greens are happy to support this.