Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Thank you Mr Speaker. Can I first acknowledge my community in the Bay of Plenty—particularly in the suburbs of Tauranga—who have responded quite extraordinarily through the lockdown. Through their collective efforts we have had only 47 people who were tested positive over the last seven weeks and only one person ending up in hospital. In my view many of those people in Papamoa and Ōhauiti and Te Puna and Ōmokoroa have sacrificed their business their jobs their livelihoods for the greater good and it is utterly incumbent on this place to ensure now that we stand beside them and facilitate as quickly as possible their capacity to get back up off the canvas and to have another go. That is why I think that announcement yesterday from Simon Bridges was particularly apt because it was focused on what businesses really need now which is cash flow and support as opposed to—as we have traversed on this side of the House—more debt which I think and we think will simply constrain that capacity for those businesses to respond. But my city should feel confident because we are a region that has huge natural advantages tremendous energy and entrepreneurship. I'm sure that if we bring the best of us to the challenges that our city finds in front of it we will succeed. I want to acknowledge an industry that has brought the best of it to the situation they found themselves in and that is the kiwifruit industry. They were only one week into their harvest—the largest ever—when level 4 occurred. That industry stopped for two days and completely re-engineered their systems from harvesting the fruit from picking the fruit and from packing the fruit and ensuring that it got on to the ships of the world and they have responded quite extraordinarily: 28000 people—28000 permanent and seasonal workers—have been able to be employed and have been able to be kept safe. There has not been one issue in terms of a COVID incidence within that sector—28000—and we are now well through that extraordinary harvest and the reason I raise it is that I think it is hugely illustrative of the opportunity that sits in front of us as a country. The Government as we have traversed over the last week has spent a huge amount of time no doubt nickel-and-diming exactly what the rules are—no doubt pages and pages of rules—that should sit as part of the level 2 movement. But here we have a sector that at the height of the crisis was able itself to design a system that kept their people safe and that protected their livelihoods and ensured that the economy of the Bay of Plenty and the wider New Zealand economy can thrive. That sense of urgency and innovation and the ability to apply the best of our thinking is what must sit at the core of the move to level 2. It will not be successful if at the core of the change sits a highly bureaucratic prescriptive list from Wellington. We need to trust our people. We need to give for them at the core of their decisions a set of principles to apply to their businesses: how do we keep our people safe how do we step up our businesses in today's world and how can we thrive and ensure that the jobs of this country and the families of this country are protected? I'd like to conclude with an acknowledgment of our 23000 farming families. Now this Government has largely been silent on the work that they have done over the last seven weeks to keep this country going. In fact if anything there's been a sense from this Government that because they are part of often isolated rural communities they are used to being in isolation and so therefore are the sector most least affected. It just proves yet again how completely disconnected they are with rural New Zealand. For those who live in isolation—Greg O'Connor: Ever milked a cow?TODD MULLER: —yes I have—if they don't have the capacity to have people come on to their farm it makes it harder for them and what this Government fails to understand is that this is a sector that is already under pressure with M. bovis that is already under pressure in terms of a fierce drought in most of this country that has on top of those extraordinary pressures a cold chain which can't move through their stock at the pace that would be expected and that has a regulatory impost which will break them if this Government doesn't listen and actually approach farmers with a sense of reciprocity. Thank you.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.