Halbert Shanan; Mallard TrevorSHANAN HALBERT (Labour—Northcote): He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata he tangata he tangata—what is the most important thing in this world? It is people it is people it is people. I'm so grateful that under the leadership of our Prime Minister and our Deputy Prime Minister they have kept people at the centre of our COVID recovery plan.Today I want to acknowledge Aucklanders my community people of Northcote who have suffered in the last couple of lockdowns. They've had to stay home stay in their bubbles look after their family and teach their kids. It's not easy for those families but they understand that we do it because we need to keep safe and keep our families safe from COVID-19.It is not a time for us to be complacent. It is not a time for us to decide whether we want to open the borders or whether we don't want to open the borders. We need to ensure that we have a strong stable plan in place. That's what this Government has and that is what they are rolling out.Fifty thousand people—our border workers our managed isolation and quarantine workers their households and their whānau—are under way with immunisation and this will finish by the end of this month. Four hundred and eighty thousand front-line health workers—my partner an immunologist somebody who is at high risk amongst all of their colleagues in Auckland—will also be rolling out soon. That is no small feat. That is important work. But I do say to all of our people at home to my community to our people of Tāmaki-makau-rau in Auckland: listen to our experts go to trusted sources and challenge misinformation that is out there.I want to acknowledge Northcote's very own Dr Dale Bramley who has been appointed by our Minister to the new advisory group for COVID-19. We are very very proud of him on the North Shore.As we go through this one-in-100-year event this pandemic it presents us with the opportunity not just to recover but to build back better. I'm so proud that myself Vanushi Walters in Upper Harbour and possibly my friend across the room Simon Watts present fresh faces in the North Shore—MPs that are able to get on with the work and demonstrate work that has people at the centre and invests in our community. Northcote is a shining example of the things that we're doing.Our housing developments—and we've waited so long in Northcote since the Clark Government to push through the Northcote housing development. So my colleague here who grew up in our local community Barb Edmonds talks about Taurus Crescent. Last week nine families recently moved into our public homes—their warm dry homes in our most deprived area on the North Shore. That is part of a housing development in the Northcote electorate of over 1500 homes—public homes affordable homes and those at market sale. Now that's very very important. Part of our job under Labour in this Government was protecting those public houses—not selling them off—protecting the planned stock and even increasing the number of public houses to 475. On Taurus Crescent by the end of the month I'm going to be there opening another 20 houses alongside our Minister. So one of the important things for the Northcote electorate and across our community is building back better.I'll also go into transport because under the National Government there was a $5.9 billion hole in Auckland's transport infrastructure. As the chair of Labour's transport and infrastructure caucus committee I ask: where was the investment during the last National Government? They question us on a whole bunch of stuff but the reality is a $28 billion package in Auckland's transport plan—that is under this Government that's about building back better and for people on the North Shore that's about the northern expressway and getting more people on public transport to address our climate change priorities. Those are the things that matter that's why they voted for Shanan and why they voted for Vanushi Walters because they want people at the centre and that's what we're going to do. So we're going to build—SPEAKER: Order! Order! Order! The member's time has expired.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.