Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. I just had to chuckle briefly at the Minister referring to the volume of Australians coming across the Tasman being lower than expected". I think he must have meant "the number of Australians"—we don't want to commodify our cousins across the Ditch into some sort of continuous amount to be measured in volume.This will be something that many New Zealanders will be very much relieved for a number of reasons: in Wellington people will be relieved that they can return to alert level 1 particularly the hospitality industry who find it easy to open but not make money. New Zealanders up and down the country and having been in Auckland over the weekend will be relieved that we have dodged a bullet that we've had a person in New Zealand with the Delta variant of COVID-19 but it has not spread the way that we might have expected. Indeed New Zealand I think is in an extraordinarily fortunate position; we say Australia's the lucky country—how many potential outbreaks have we had now with an individual who seemed to be infectious and yet failed to infect even those very close to them let alone many people beyond it? It's also been very heartening to see the Government take an approach that is closer to the risk proportionate response that this country—in fact all countries are going to need as COVID becomes more complex as the world reopens and reconnects. The way that the Government has chosen to differentiate between Australian states represents a large advance on the way that they were talking about different Australian states even just earlier this year. That has to be exceedingly welcome.But then we turn to the Government's response to this potential outbreak and it is so revealing that the Government's basic ability to respond still relies on locking down locking 'em out and hoping for a good dose of luck. When it came to testing we didn't see anything different anything better or faster. In fact it seemed like they were moving in slow motion in the early days stacking up and standing up the testing capability required. When it came to contact tracing the Minister is now reporting that 93 percent of contact tracing has been done end-to-end but that appears to be over about six days. The funny thing is when I asked him in his ministerial statement last week was he confident that the contact tracing regime would meet Ayesha Verrall's gold standard of 80 percent he would not express confidence in them. I wonder if he will now having seen the results come through. Or will he claim that the results are really as good as supposed—did they really occur in just four days?Then you get to the greatest vulnerability of all which is what has hampered Australia as well to be sure but the almost total lack of vaccination. The fact that we who were once at the front of the queue now find ourselves at the bottom of the OECD. Then there's the complacency around digital contact tracing: 415000 scans was the nadir for scanning just last week; now it's popped up a bit because there's been a scare. The Government will no doubt talk about complacency but it's difficult to escape the conclusion that they have been affected by it in their own response too.The best that can come out of this scare is that it's a wake-up call for the Government and it is finally driven to take on some of the ideas that have been recommended to them time and time again—by ACT and others since last July—that we need to start getting better at managing risk. We need to start augmenting our response with better technology. We need an epidemic response unit that's multi-disciplinary and can actually work with business as partners. Those are the kinds of innovations that we need as the COVID world gets more complex and I really hope that the Minister is about to stand up and say that what's just happened is not good enough we need to be better next time. Thank you Mr Speaker."