Leavasa Anae NeruDr ANAE NERU LEAVASA (Labour—Takanini): Fa'afetai lava mo le avanoa lau afioga le fofoga fetalai. Thank you Mr Speaker for the opportunity to take a call on this general debate securing our recovery. Just like member Willow-Jean Prime I would like to also say: manuia le Kerisimasi ma le tausaga fou. Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all our colleagues in the House.I want to use this time to also highlight the wonderful and tremendous work that's been done on the ground at our vaccination stations but also our testing stations managed isolation and quarantine and also now with the workforce with the community again being cared for in isolation. I also want to highlight the milestones that have been recently achieved with the 85 percent of eligible Māori and 92 percent of eligible Pasifika having received their first dose as well.Specifically where I'm from South Auckland Counties Manukau are at 93 percent of first doses and 89 percent of second doses. So we're almost there so just a plug for our whānau in Counties Manukau to please come forward to get your first second or your booster shots done this week. There are plenty of places to do so. Also across the motu as well there are more than 3.7 million people who are fully vaccinated and that's 88 percent of the eligible population as well.The wonderful work of not only my colleagues out in the workforce but also the social providers the youth groups the churches the temples that have really done the hard mahi the hard work in order to increase our rates across Aotearoa but especially where I'm from in South Auckland. One of them being South Seas Healthcare's le afioga ia Lemalu Silao the CEO there and their crew working tirelessly in Ōtara with the vaccination centre there at the Manukau Institute of Technology alongside the testing centre that's next door to the vaccination centre. Also the Whānau Ora food parcels that are used as well because it's not only the priority of getting the vaccination; it's also the social wraparound service that's needed.Our Bubblegum crew the youth initiative that go and engage with our youth—they've done a tremendous job as well so I send my aroha to them.Baderdrive Doctors who are based in Manurewa Māngere who also get around and look after our Pasifika whānau families. The many Pacific-centred - targeted vaccination stations that they've been helping out—I also want to say thank you to them.Our local Takanini vaccination centre—a big shout-out to George and Raewyn and the crew there on Saturday on the Super Saturday event. Just this past Saturday as well I went and got my booster shot and I want to say thank you for their work. They provide buses that can help our whānau get to the vaccination centre in the first place so I thank them for their mahi.Our local marae that surround Takanini as well—Manurewa and Papakura marae the tremendous work that they do in reaching out to our whānau has been tremendous. During the lockdown I had the opportunity to volunteer alongside our medical crew from those marae—Manurewa Marae—and doing the mahi next to them has been a privilege not only to get our vaccination rates up but also to have that sort of relationship-building with our clinical staff there.Our vaccination buses that go out—our Shot Cuz bus that goes out to Randwick Park.Hon Member: Yay Randwick Park!Dr ANAE NERU LEAVASA: One of the areas—yeah that's right; Randwick Park. Thank you to the Minister as part of that community the Manurewa community the amount of work that they do in order to supply that. I know our Shot Cuz bus was recently at Alfriston College and engaging our youth there. So I'd like to say thank you to them as well.Also to our Pacific workforce and our clinical nurses that do the work there as well. I want to do a shout-out to my colleagues from our Pacific peer group that not only are doing business as usual in the clinics but are out there doing the testing and the vaccination but also the online MIQ work that they do to look after—once you do get a positive to make sure that our whānau are being well looked after and being able to speak your own language; that's been really good in terms of engagement.Also lastly our Takanini Sikh temple in reaching our ethnic community our Sikh community the amount of work they do—it's almost like every week they do a food drive in order to support our community and also the vaccine uptake there. So that's why this Government has done so well in this pandemic. Thank you Mr Speaker.