Kerekere ElizabethDr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Kia ora. I rise on behalf of the Greens to support his bill the COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No 2). We initially only supported it to select committee because of the concerns we had about the infringement fees and that system. And so as a member of the Health Committee we were fine with the place that we got to with it. I agree that I hope that we do not need to use them for much longer and we are strong proponents of restorative practices and other ways of dealing with people not wanting to take part in a certain thing and behave in a certain way. We believe in incentives and calling to peoples' best values and interests.I wanted to speak briefly about the importance of a framework: that we have to balance between what we dealt with just prior to this which is a whole lot of orders and details which have already occurred already in effect and we are retrospectively approving them to being flexible enough to change with what's happening because it's moving so so fast. We look at the things that are written here now and we've moved so far beyond some of it. That framework needs to allow that agility while still holding our Government to account in this place here.So for managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) we absolutely understand the frustration. I have so many family members trying to get home who've had tickets who've had bookings and then they get cancelled. So that lack of surety—and this bill covers people's behaviour in that place. We're suggesting that all those things that lead into why people behave in a certain way also need to be taken into account. We support more recent decisions to make that stay shorter. I believe that alone will improve the morale of people inside MIQ facilities no end. We very much want to get to the point where people who are fully vaccinated and have negative tests can go home as soon as possible and all of our whānau—all of the New Zealanders who are wanting to come here—should be able to do so.We see that this law also allows the Minister the discretion to prioritise between different classes of people coming in. This now surely is the opportunity to reunite split families. For a very very long time we've had people coming to us and saying What is the rationale? We cannot understand why this is still happening." And so we want to make sure if the Minister is going to prioritise that to unite split families and we want to advocate for the health and education workers who have been approved to come here and are still waiting to get a place. Our hospital and our health system was already overloaded before COVID hit us and with all of the gaps and vacancies now that are going to happen across many sectors because of people refusing the mandate to get vaccinated. So we want to make sure that as soon as we can we can get our people home and we can create spaces for the people that we need to come and work here.We're very happy to see the delegation of our roading enforcement powers that's going to allow Māori wardens and other iwi representatives to have roles in helping protect their community. In the Tai Rāwhiti and I'm sure many others areas where there are low vaccination rates we are really really worried about the commitment that Aucklanders can all travel by Christmas. We're worried that many people will slip through and they're all coming to the holiday destinations—the Tai Rāwhiti amongst them. So we see that this allows for us to have iwi checkpoints which the Greens have always supported and the right of whānau to protect their members while our vaccinations continue to rise albeit slowly.And the last thing is we did have the opportunity to talk about these penalties and we will always go for lower penalties greater incentives. This was discussed at length. We did bring in the officials and sent them away a few times to get more information for us but we did agree in the end that where we got to was workable. We are concerned. We will be watching for any profiling that happens because in other parts of our justice system where there are fines penalties convictions Māori are disproportionately affected by that. So we will absolutely be keeping a watch on that in this case. But nō reira we commend this bill to the House."