Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. As I rise having heard much of this debate this week I note that almost all of us are centring the global pandemic. It is though a global pandemic. It is a global shared common crisis and so I want to talk about global affairs—foreign affairs and trade—two of my favourite portfolios.New Zealand has done incredibly well. There is no doubt that in terms of our domestic response we should all be proud. We've saved lives we've stood with our front-line people we've stood with the immunocompromised of which I am a member and we've saved lives here. But being a global problem the thing that this common crisis has shown us is that unless all of us are OK none of us are going to be OK. So two major global issues still form the forefront of the Green concern that I think New Zealand can do a lot more about. One is what's been described now as the vaccine apartheid forming across the globe and the other is the problem of Third World debt. The vaccine apartheid is something that was brought to our attention by two nations early in 2020 after the pandemic started to rage across the globe. And it became clear that our response in the global west whatever that constitutes was to self-isolate to lock down and in terms of New Zealand we came up with a progressive transformative solution of actually upholding people's wages so that they could do that. The global south is less able to do that and they told us almost immediately via a call led by India and South Africa that vaccines were what would save them but that the costs were too high. Now New Zealand has stood with our Pacific neighbours. We have shared the vaccines that we've bought with the Pacific and that's great. That's charity. It's not transformative change. It's not systems change. It's not getting at the problem of global inequality and healthcare access. What India and South Africa were asking for is that we go to the World Trade Organization—which is allowed; it's part of the rules at the World Trade Organisation (WTO)—and we lift the intellectual property costs of the vaccines so they could be manufactured cheaper and made more accessible. New Zealand shamefully did not support that call until late last year. Both those countries have now been the forefront of new mutations of this virus: first Delta in India then Omicron in South Africa. So we've seen how global inequality in healthcare access has actually harmed us all. New Zealand has come to the table now. We actually came to the table after the United States Government did in support of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights waiver that old socialist institution that is the United States Government. But what are we doing about it? How are we using our trade connections our allies? How are we actively working to make the vaccine more affordable to lift the intellectual property costs at the WTO? It is very unclear. Next there is the issue of debt. Cycles of debt lead as the cause of global inequality. Poverty rages through the Pacific worse than the virus. And as we all come out of this thing this crisis across the globe it's going to be that form of inequality that's going to keep the global south—the Third World developing nations whatever we're going to call them—down. It's the cause of historic inequality of colonisation and that debt responsibility falls on us. We can use our voice our much celebrated voice of principle and the global moral compass that we see ourselves as to advocate for equality. The World Bank—again another little socialist entity—called for debt alleviation and cancellation of Third World debt as part of the COVID response last month. So it's time that we lead by example that we make global inequality in the COVID response the forefront of our work on the global stage. Thank you.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): I call Teanau Tuiono—five minutes.