Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Mr Chair. It's a pleasure to come back to the committee and continue the discussion and debate on this bill. I just want to refer back to some of the comments that have been mentioned by members in the committee this morning talking about the confusing nature of some of the comments that the Minister has said. For me personally the Minister says that he has provided greater clarity in the case of this bill when I asked him the question in relation to the amendment he's made to the COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No 2) which was finished last week—but I see that in the new bill that we are actually debating the COVID-19 Response (Vaccinations) Legislation Bill there is an addition. The question that I raised last week in my Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) was in relation to the security question where other countries—for example in Indonesia—exposed the data of more than 1.3 million users because there was no proactive update of the app or the fact that there were authorities and Government entities who promised not to utilise data collected for COVID tracing for prosecution purposes. Yet I see that in the new bill it is inserting a new section 34A(1)(b). The concerns may be raised that law enforcement will now have access to COVID-19 tracer data for ulterior purposes not related to the COVID public health response. I just want to ask the Minister: how can the Minister reassure the public this will not be the case? I kept mentioning that there are a lot of people who do not use the tracer app because they are worried about what the Government will do with that data. Will the Minister confirm he will not further expand section 34A and will he actually provide a guarantee to New Zealanders?Even when in relation to the COVID data—and we now actually have the COVID tracer app where people use it to scan the quick response (QR) codes. We also now have the New Zealand My Vaccine Pass and now we also have the app that verifies that people have the vaccine pass and that they are in fact vaccinated and they can actually come into their businesses or organisations or events that they are holding. The problem is that there are so many people in New Zealand including New Zealand permanent residents who do not have documentation that can actually prove their identity and so they're having difficulty getting their vaccine pass. To prove that they've been vaccinated they have to make a phone call and you sort of wonder with one phone call on the other end of the phone how do the officials know that these are the people? Why did the Government not actually think of including the visa that was issued by Immigration New Zealand as a form of identity or utilising foreign passports as a means of providing proof of identity for these people? There are effectively thousands—tens of thousands—of people who will not be able to participate in everyday life activity because they will not be able to prove their vaccination status or their identity.Going back to that whole data issue what was the reason for the Minister to suddenly after only one sitting week of the House urgently—under urgency—rush through this additional subsection when his comments on the 17 and 18 November sittings made it absolutely clear that his officials didn't actually think it necessary to expand the clauses which I had actually prepared an SOP on as well. Should members of the public be concerned about the Minister's remark made during the House's sitting on the COVID19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No 2) that section 34A provides—and I quote—an additional layer of certainty" when the Minister has further amended this section to expand the reasons for the expansion of the COVID tracer app as well.I just want to say to the Minister will the Minister give absolute surety to the House that he won't further expand the powers of accessing COVID-19 data again as he is doing in new section 34A(1)(b) to extend the reach of the Government to track and trace the movement of New Zealanders who are absolutely worried as to what the data is providing to the Government? For the purposes of COVID tracing they're happy to give their data but they are really really worried about what the Government's reach could do."