Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. I would like to file a missing person report: a 41-year-old woman last seen arriving at Auckland domestic airport with the Prime Minister's press secretary has vanished without a trace—not been seen anywhere. There are a few leads that police are working with. One is that she turned down Knockturn Avenue" with the cloak of invisibility and cannot be seen by anybody except for two business owners—just two—one of whom never had to close even under alert level 4 because they were supplying Fonterra. The other business that this woman visited is completely unknown. I thought the Prime Minister's long-awaited stage-managed trip to Auckland would not be particularly open but I never would have predicted that she would have gone to only two businesses and when asked said "I didn't have the time." The journalists asked the Prime Minister "Did you not go and walk around the streets and visit the people running the businesses and talk to people about their experiences after three months of lockdown? Did you not do it because you were worried about security?" She said no. And I hope she's right because if we've got to the stage where the Prime Minister—who Shanan Halbert the MP for Northcote said is much loved—can't even walk around the streets of New Zealand then we're in much bigger trouble than I realised. The truth is that if she'd gone out there there would've been no violence there would've been no threats. There would have been person after person much as I saw myself when I did go out and walk around the streets of Broadway Newmarket and Mount Eden village and Remuera village places in the centre of the Auckland isthmus where people are saying "We're putting on a brave face behind the mask." They're putting on a brave face but if you look into their eyes you can see people who are desperate people who are frustrated people who were borrowing money from relatives to keep their businesses afloat people who've spent decades building up what they have and they've just run down all their capital and may be left with nothing at all. One woman came up to me she was hesitant to talk and then she said "You know the truth is we could have people over for a picnic. We did when it was first allowed but there's nothing to talk about because nobody does anything."If the Prime Minister went out and visited more than just two businesses and had any idea of how Aucklanders are withdrawing into themselves maybe her policies would be different. Maybe she could've visited a hairdresser. She could've gone to a Botox clinic because you can do cosmetic Botox under this Government's rules and those hairdressers would've said "We have the ability to safely lift the mood of this depressed city one cut and one colour at a time." That's what she would've heard but hairdressers aren't allowed to open and the widespread story is that they are cutting hair underground. Can you believe it? This country has a bootleg haircutting industry where the desperately broke pedal illicit haircuts to the desperately shaggy. That's what's happening in Auckland under this Government's policies. It is completely nuts.Here's what could be done if we actually had a Government that was truly committed to balancing wellbeing. You see ironically one of the Labour members talked about the world's first Wellbeing Budget of balancing the different human needs that people have. Do you think this Government's done that through COVID? No because they've had Ashley Bloomfield giving health advice at one-third of Cabinet meetings—access to Cabinet that no unelected official has had before. Do you think they're hearing from the education secretary about kids' welfare and the loss of kids' learning? Of course they're not. Do you think they're hearing from the Treasury secretary about New Zealanders' economic wellbeing? Of course they're not. And having not properly visited Auckland the Prime Minister's not hearing from the people her policies most acutely affect either. If only they were prepared to say "December 1 is freedom day. At that day we're not going to make people go through 14 days of managed isolation and quarantine. We're not going to isolate whole cities only individuals who are infected vulnerable or recently arrived and we're not going to divide people by vaccine status" because even people who are strongly in favour of vaccination like myself can increasingly see that the division it's bringing about is damaging and the enforcement of it is impractical. That's what a freedom day would look like. That's what an empathetic Prime Minister would be saying but our Prime Minister of inclusion and kindness—well unfortunately for her we'll have to file a missing person report because no one in Auckland's seen her.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."