Collins JudithGENERAL DEBATEHon JUDITH COLLINS (Leader of the Opposition): Thank you Mr Speaker. I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business.Well another week and another working group set up today with this Government another vote of no confidence in her Ministers from the Prime Minister. Bring back Heather Simpson and Sir Brian Roche—that's what we said. We're coming back to the Helen Clark era and we can see what's happened is that there is no confidence in her Ministers to sort out this COVID-19 re-emergence this mess that we've been given as the people of New Zealand. You know it's five months since New Zealand went into lockdown the first time and in five months New Zealanders would have expected that we would have a Government putting all its efforts into making sure that this virus did not resurge back into the community. After all we've been told that the borders were secure. After all we were told that there was a COVID tracing app that would help us all this COVID tracing app which until this last week around 6 percent of New Zealanders were using—this COVID tracing app. We're all using it now because we have no confidence in the Government. It was 104 days from 9 April when the Government got the—Greg O'Connor: You're scaremongering.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: —right to do mandatory testing at—SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The member will resume her seat. The member will not bring me into the debate. He will stand withdraw and apologise.Greg O'Connor: I withdraw and apologise.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Thank you Mr Speaker. So 104 days from 9 April when mandatory testing was allowed to 22 July when Cabinet decided to get around to doing its job—only 104 days. That then gave the health officials nine days before the first of the resurgence of COVID-19 in the community became known to New Zealanders.What's happened since? Well most of New Zealand is now in a level 2 lockdown. That's one of the reasons that Parliament today is relatively quiet and not the usual rowdy place that it is. But the other thing that's happened is Auckland—the entire Auckland region 1.7 million New Zealanders—1.7 million New Zealanders representing a third of the population in this country have been locked down in a level 3 lockdown. That means that businesses are closed. That means that children are not at school. That means that universities are not operating. That means to those people who care that Auckland is now and therefore New Zealand losing $75 million a day—not a week not a year; a day—and 25 jobs lost every day because of this lockdown this level 3 lockdown. That's what's happening and those are not figures brought together or estimated by the National Party's economic unit; those are figures put together by the head economist for the Hon Phil Goff's Auckland Council—the former leader of the Labour Party. That's their figures.Today we've heard nothing from the Prime Minister about a resurgence plan other than this—this document—plus something that comes in behind it. It's such a widely read document that the Parliamentary Library today could find no evidence of it at all after a search. So it wasn't just that we couldn't find it; it's the fact that the Parliamentary Library which can find pretty much anything if it's published couldn't find it. Today we heard nothing from the Prime Minister about why it is that greengrocers and butchers are still closed why it is that essential health workers weren't issued with passes to move through borders why it is that people have been waiting in some cases four hours in traffic stuck on the Bombay Hills trying to get through the hard land border that the police have been told to set up. Nowhere in that was there any preparation—104 days that Cabinet gave itself to think about whether or not they would require mandatory testing of border-facing staff. That's your front-line workers—104 days. Last night we heard from the Unite Union saying actually you shouldn't have policy by press release. We heard from the Prime Minister today that there was an expectation that something would happen that there would be mandatory testing. How can there be an expectation when nobody is checking the checkers? Where was the Minister of Health on this?I was asked today by the media a very pertinent question. It was: should the Minister of Health be gone? Who should be the Minister of Health? It wasn't a difficult question for me to answer. It was really really obvious. There should be a new Minister of Health and that Minister of Health is not Dr Megan Woods. It's not Nanaia Mahuta. It's not Kelvin Davis. The Minister of Health should be Dr Shane Reti the only person qualified in this House and the only person who can assist in this matter—the person that we will choose when we lead the Government.