Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. It is good to have our Parliament back. To see the people in Government standing on the same carpet as the rest of the Parliament so that not only the people that have voted for them but all New Zealanders can see their representatives asking questions and sometimes getting answers is what democratic accountability is all about. We've heard just today that the Government does not know what went on in Middlemore Hospital. They've believed the officials that told them it was all ka pai but they don't believe the patients who tell them the person was clearly symptomatic. We've heard from people representing businesses up and down this country who are running out of working capital. Having borrowed to get through the last lockdown they may not get through this one to be there for the recovery and we've heard that the Government is under consideration" when it comes to extending the resurgence payment for those businesses that are really under pressure and those business owners have borrowed against their house in order to get this far. Then we heard that the Government only started taking advice about saliva testing at the border a few weeks ago. They had 18 months—now the Speaker's asking Kiritapu Allan if she could put her mask on I think. Only a few months ago or a few weeks ago in fact the Government started to think about what it might take for saliva testing at the border—only a few weeks ago. They had 18 months—the world's longest nap. People are enormously frustrated at a Government that had so much time did so little and pursued so many other avenues during that time. We've heard in questions from Shane Reti about what the Government was doing. It was focused on its restructuring of the healthcare system in the middle of a crisis. It's good to have our Parliament back and we're going to need representative democracy to solve a lot more problems. This Government was elected on fixing housing. It was elected where there was a real problem with educational inequality and underachievement by all New Zealand students with our scores going down against our competitors around the world every time there's an international test for 20 years. That contributes to a major problem with productivity and low productivity means that we can't afford the things that people come to the steps of this Parliament and ask for such as pharmaceuticals for patients in high need. How has the Government gone on those challenges? Well about as well as it's gone in being prepared for a COVID outbreak. Did people hear—this is why it's so good to have Parliament back—how the Minister for COVID-19 Response really thinks about this issue? If anyone criticises his response apparently we're criticising the workers. No we're not. We've never criticised the hard-working doctors and nurses and essential workers that have saved the Government's bacon time and again through this COVID saga. But the Minister is now so defensive when he's dragged down on to the floor of this House like every other representative of every other New Zealander—we get to see their true colours. We're going to need to solve these problems of productivity growth of housing supply and of declining educational achievement and even educational attendance. Those are the kinds of challenges that New Zealand needs positive practical solutions for in the months and years to come and isn't it great to live in a democracy where every person can elect a representative of their choice—sometimes different from mine—to go and speak for them and ask questions on the floor of this House? That gives me hope that our little country can work through its differences and overcome its challenges. What a wonderful day to live in a parliamentary democracy. Thank you Mr Speaker."