Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'd just like to take a moment to respond to the member who just took her seat Tracey McLellan who's praising Jacinda Ardern for her world-leading response and the fact that we have such a healthy economy. Chris Bishop and I visited on Sunday 25 hospo and personal service businesses in Auckland. The woman who made the comments that she did has lost everything. She's built her business up over 25 years—a business I should say she wanted to leave to her staff but now is so debt ridden that nobody wants it. She was in tears telling us that she's been robbed that she's been lied to and that she will never vote for this party again. That is the legacy that this Prime Minister has left for these people who have nothing left who've built these businesses over their entire lifetimes have spent all of their savings and have lost everything.Now the Prime Minister came to Auckland. She visited a business that had never shut down then she went on a casual visit to her local cafe which is a social enterprise that's not even required to make money. Chris Bishop and I visited 25 businesses in a day to show what can be done when you actually care about what Auckland businesses are going through and I can tell you the anger is palpable. They are furious because they can see that there is no plan from this Government that they are making up things as they go along and this bill is evidence of that as Chris Bishop said. It was drafted at a time when we probably may still have needed managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) but things have moved on things have changed and here we are embedding a system that is no longer required.Now to answer Mr Bishop's question—I think it was rhetorical but I'm going to answer it. How is it possible that we have fewer ICU beds now than we did at the beginning of the pandemic? How is that possible? Well we can see through official Government documents that we get through information requests the answer to that question because in a briefing to the health Minister his Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment officials in an October briefing say Planning is under way to ensure that the entire health system is in a position to support the Delta outbreak within New Zealand."—planning is under way in October. That's why we don't have more ICU beds because we haven't been able to bring in the ICU workers to man them. The evidence is in the documents that this Government is incapable of planning and has been incapable of planning for this Delta outbreak.We oppose this bill wholeheartedly and I want to talk about MIQ because there was an opportunity here in this bill today to move with the times. Now the members opposite can say till they're blue in the face "Well things in the future will move and shift." The time to move and shift is now. There are Kiwis a million of them overseas many of whom desperately need to come home. They're either in an emergency situation where their visa's run out or they've got health problems or they've got dying loved ones in New Zealand or they just want to come home and see the family they haven't seen in three years. They're COVID free they're double vaccinated. They are not the ones who should be taking up space in MIQ.But here we have a bill that is perpetuating a system that might've been good a year ago but now needs to move with the times—now; not by the end of quarter one next year but now because now we have people in Auckland over 2000 of them with COVID who are alone at home. Maybe they get an email to check if they're OK. Maybe they get contacted after a few days of being at home. Some of them are in situations that are not fit to be isolating in in garages or cars or tents and some of them are dying horrible deaths at home when they should be in either the hospital or an MIQ hotel being looked after by healthcare workers by nurses and doctors. We had the ability in this bill for the MIQ system to be changed and shifted to look after those people not to take fully vaccinated Kiwis who pose very little risk to us even the cumulative risk that this Minister talks about—the cumulative risk we have is the outbreak in Auckland and around the rest of the country because we're not testing people properly and I'll get into that in a little bit.But there is a totally perverse effect by having fully vaccinated people who do not have COVID sitting in a place where they could possibly receive healthcare when we need COVID-positive Kiwis in those facilities. It is an absolutely ridiculous thing that we are passing a bill that perpetuates the same MIQ system that we've had when we need to be nimble we need to move we need to look at the science and the evidence which this Government always say that they need to do but are refusing to do in this case.We also had the opportunity in this bill to bring in things like rapid antigen testing which is still for the most part illegal in this country. One of the best things we can do to have a mass surveillance of our country to see where COVID is popping up and we know from tweets by the Associate Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall that she's vehemently opposed it for months. I know there are some sensible Ministers across the other side of the House who know that rapid antigen testing is good but they have listened to her and we are now in a situation where every other country in the world has a system where you can go to your local pharmacy and in some cases pick up for free a box of rapid antigen tests which you can take every day before you go somewhere which is a wonderful tool of mass surveillance of a population to check where COVID is possibly popping up. Yet here in New Zealand we don't have it. We had an opportunity in this bill to allow this to happen but nothing. We're perpetuating a ridiculous MIQ system. We're not allowing MIQ to change with the times.Then the last thing I want to talk about is the stealing of laboratories of equipment and actually of staff of private businesses. The reason for this—well members opposite will say it's for the contingency planning. There is no reason why this Government in that contingency planning couldn't be working with business sitting down with them and saying "Hey Delta's upon us it's coming. We need to employ your services. We need to rapidly push out 10000 tests a day."—thank you very much Rako Science—"Can you work with us?" This Government is so estranged from business is so offside with business that that's not possible any more and I'm not surprised by the reception that we had in Auckland when we were talking to Auckland businesses. They're so offside with businesses that that's not possible.So we get a bill today that says because we can't sit down with business we're going to forcefully in part of our contingency plans give ourselves the ability to take your laboratory to take your equipment and to take your stuff and centralise it and use it ourselves. Well let's see how that goes. We wholeheartedly oppose this bill. It had the opportunity to move with the times but unfortunately it was drafted such a long time ago that it is wedded to something that was required a long time ago. We opposed it first and second reading and we will oppose it again today. Thank you."