Sepuloni CarmelCOVID-19 ORDERSApprovalHon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Social Development and Employment) on behalf of the Minister for COVID-19 Response: I move on behalf of the Minister for COVID-19 Response That this House approve the following orders made under the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020:COVID-19 Public Health Response (COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate) Order 2021 COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) Amendment Order (No 14) 2021 COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order (No 5) 2021COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order (No 6) 2021COVID-19 Public Health Response (Protection Framework) Order 2021COVID-19 Public Health Response (Infringement Offences) Amendment Order 2021COVID-19 Public Health Response (Protection Framework) Amendment Order 2021COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Amendment Order (No 5) 2021COVID-19 Public Health Response (COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate) Amendment Order 2021COVID-19 Public Health Response (Maritime Border) Order (No 2) Amendment Order (No 3) 2021.Once more we are asking the House to approve COVID-19 orders to ensure that they are not revoked within certain time frames. The House has considered a series of these motions over the past two years or so. The collection of orders before us today is perhaps the most significant so far. It demonstrates the necessity of a system that enables us to respond to the rapid pace of change that is characteristic of COVID-19 but that ensures that parliamentary debate and approval remains an essential part of the process. There are 10 orders in the motion before us today. The presentation of My Vaccine Passes has quickly become part of everyday life for the overwhelming majority of New Zealanders—to be shown to be able to enter certain areas places or premises or to receive some services. The system was established by the COVID-19 Public Health Response (COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate) Order 2021 and its subsequent amendment both of which are in today's motion. They are a critical component of New Zealand's world-leading COVID 19 response.Chris Bishop: Point of order Madam Speaker. We're in a slightly unusual situation here where we don't have the actual Minister for COVID-19 Response or indeed the Associate Minister moving the motion and I think I'm right in saying that the Minister who is presumably acting on behalf of the Minister didn't actually move the motion on behalf of the Minister for COVID-19 Response—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): She did.Kieran McAnulty: She did. You're too busy complaining to listen.Chris Bishop: Yes well where are they? She's here today where is she?ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The member will take his seat.Chris Bishop: Just because the Government whip can't organise the House properly—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! The member will take his seat.Hon CARMEL SEPULONI: Speaking to the point of order Madam Speaker I just want to make the point that no member is allowed to point out the absence of another member and I feel that that was a deliberate attempt to do so.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): That is fair to say. I would like to call the Hon Carmel Sepuloni to continue with the speech and may I suggest Chris Bishop that if you are to listen carefully you would have actually heard that she moved the motion.Hon CARMEL SEPULONI: For the benefit of the members in the House—and I do hope that they are listening now—I thank the members of the Regulations Review Committee for their work in examining these orders. The committee's comments on successive orders have contributed significantly to improving the process ever since the passing of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The question is—Chris Bishop: Oh are we going to—sorry Madam Speaker. I intended to take a full call here.Hon Carmel Sepuloni: He needs to sort himself out.Chris Bishop: Well I'm just making the point that I'm intending to take a full call here. Do you want me to come back after the dinner break or start now Madam Speaker?ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): You're welcome to have a speech Chris Bishop. It will only last a couple of minutes though.Chris Bishop: I think we've changed the rules on that.Kieran McAnulty: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. I believe it's within the presiding officer's ability within five minutes of the dinner break to call it off and I express no opposition to the member coming back and doing a speech in full after the dinner break.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): We'll resume the House after the dinner break at 7 p.m.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.