Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. What a difference a week makes. It was only this time last week when I revealed that the story of the two women who travelled non-stop from Auckland to Wellington may not have been all that we had been told. The Minister was in denial and the ministry denied it and then several hours later on the evening of last Wednesday came the admission: it was true. And even then they spun it. Even then they were going Oh yes there was contact but the contact was brief. It wasn't a cuddle; it was just an arm around the shoulder."—I'm not quite sure what the difference is. Then they started throwing people under a bus and the first person they threw under the bus was the member for Hutt South my good friend Chris Bishop when the Hon Chris Hipkins scurrilously accused and inferred—or implied; I'm sure the Speaker will—SPEAKER: He implied; you inferred.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: He implied—I inferred—that he had something to do with the fact that these two were released from isolation without a test. That is an outrageous slur on Mr Bishop's character. Eugenie Sage says to this House that the Opposition have been playing dirty pool. Mr Hipkins should shake his head in shame. That was a terrible accusation.But he was only the first of many that had been thrown under the bus.Hon Chris Hipkins: Tell us about the homeless person.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: The member—I will get to that Mr Hipkins don't worry—for Palmerston North speaks so effusively of the officials only it's those officials who have worked so hard in difficult circumstances because this Government hasn't given them the appropriate rules of engagement at managed isolation facilities that went under the bus as well—it wasn't the Minister's fault. I'm not even sure which Minister Winston Peters was talking about last Thursday. The Minister of Health the Minister of Housing the Prime Minister—doesn't matter. It wasn't their fault; it was the officials' fault. It was the staff's fault. It was the security's fault. It was the hotel staff's fault. That is an unacceptable slur on the effort that not only the team of 5 million have put in but their public sector staff have as well.The big question is: what's been happening to testing? The media asked the director-general how many people let out of self-isolation between 8 June and 16 June did not have a test—he couldn't say. The following day: couldn't say. Nobody could say and this afternoon the Prime Minister now tells us that of the 2200 people who were let out of isolation nearly a thousand of them had no test—none whatsoever. Nearly a thousand by my maths and that's not the worst of it because of the 55 people who were let out early—the people who were probably most at risk—51 of them didn't have a test. How do we know that right now? Not because they had any great data-matching service—they had to get Healthline to pick up the phone and call them and say "Here it's Healthline. Did you have a test?" because they have no knowledge of what testing has been going on.Now managed isolation started on I think 8 April and so any positive tests from people in quarantine and managed isolation would've been caught up in the case numbers that were announced daily until we got to zero in the third week of May. So what we have is people in isolation being tested testing positive. From the third week of May to 16 June nobody tested positive in managed isolation and then in the last seven days 12 positive cases and the public the team of 5 million are saying that is completely implausible. That's why Professor Des Gorman who is another loyal public servant under the bus today said the likelihood of community transmission is much higher as a consequence of that failure.Now the director-general talked about COVID definitely coming up like weeds on the lawn. What he would not have in his wildest dreams imagined was that the Government was going to throw those weed seeds on the lawn themselves by their inactions. So we had the Auckland to Wellington incident we had the Wiri Prison woman who was released after a test was made but before it was confirmed as positive—and by that time she had got to Palmerston North—and we had an anecdote of a homeless person. And do you know what? Rather than go and find out how many tests were done this Government spends an inordinate amount of time checking CCTV—Hon Louise Upston: Witch hunt.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: —1706 records on a witch hunt; that's right Ms Upston. They're running down rabbit holes before they're actually doing the right thing which is keeping New Zealanders safe. It's scandalous."