Kerekere ElizabethDr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Kia ora e te Māngai. On behalf of the Greens I rise in support of this bill in its final reading. We've consistently stood by the Government in its strong health response to the pandemic even as we have raised our concerns about how the detail of some strategies and especially the upcoming traffic light system will work just because of the potential impact on Māori regional and rural communities with lower vaccination rates. We have no doubts that the Government and its agencies are working very very hard on this; so are our iwi Pasifika health disability and community providers on the ground. They need every resource we can throw at them. We recognise there are many moving parts in addressing COVID. We still see that it's less of a waltz and more of an awkward robot.We have supported agency in this case because it is urgent but we are very clear that this speed is necessary because the Government set arbitrary dates for opening the Auckland borders based on people travelling for Christmas not based on equity which would have seen Māori and Pasifika vaccination rates equal with our tauiwi counterparts not based on the traffic light system being effectively trialled for national adoption and not at all based on the case numbers in Auckland coming down. I have sympathy for my colleague Nicola Grigg who spoke eloquently this morning about safely opening up Te Waipounamu the South Island. It's another three weeks but come 15 December anyone travelling south by plane or ferry will be required to present their brand new vaccination certificate or pass and this law will provide the rules for them to do that. We absolutely support that.As much as we support reuniting whānau across the country we are worried about all the people who will be able to travel by car throughout the North Island. Checking vaccine passes can work really well one on one or where there's security on the door. Spot-checking for vaccine passes will not be sufficient for the deluge of people who may or may not be vaccinated coming to a low vaccination area near you. It will not be sufficient for immunocompromised people who will effectively go into a self-imposed level 3 or 4 to stay safe until summer is over. I note that he identified that no members had raised an inquiry of the bill at any of the relevant select committees. For the record I did raise this in my speech in the second reading last night and this afternoon at our truncated Health Committee. I've just been waiting for the end of our other agenda items.This bill will provide clarity on where people can and cannot go depending on their vaccination status. It will allow people to some places if they meet those rules and it will require some services to permit people in regardless of their status. We welcome this clarity because people are really really confused. We hope this framework will be flexible enough to cover the changes that will inevitably come. We hope it will address how especially young staff will be supported when they have to face belligerent people who are not happy they've been refused entry or service. As much as we want people to be vaccinated to protect all of us the Greens do not support forced vaccinations. We do not want to see a two-tier summer because some people cannot and will not get vaccinated. We hope that on certain occasions such as weddings especially and tangi people are able to put sensible precautions in place to allow people who are not vaccinated to celebrate the occasion or mourn with their whānau. The Greens support the development of the workplace assessment tool to make decision making better for our employers and our business people. We felt that there wasn't enough emphasis on whether testing would be available in that space so we did ask and had that confirmed that it will just help businesses decide what's going to be feasible in their situation. So we hope that that good support will be available for them as they're going through and using that tool. We also support very solid privacy measures to make sure all this new health data that employers will be required to record and report on will be safely held.So the Greens believe everyone should have fair and equal access to these vaccine passes. We're concerned some people will struggle with obtaining it. I will reiterate what I've said which is that approximately half a million New Zealanders do not have regular access to the internet: elderly people people with learning difficulties or other types of disabilities people for whom English is a second language including recent migrants refugees and asylum seekers. This also affects people without a suitable ID and takatāpui trans intersex and non-binary people whose name or gender marker do not match what is on their National Health Index record.In conclusion we agree with requirements that keep our people safe. We support a collective public health approach and this is one piece of it. Nō reira we commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.