Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. It is great to be back having been locked up in Auckland for three months is no joy I can actually tell you. But it seems coming back to Wellington is rather different where the bureaucracy and the Ministers actually bicker over their double soy lattes at Lambton Quay and actually talk about getting their avocado on toast at lunchtime while Auckland hospos—as in people who work in hospitality—and businesses are collapsing and they're struggling and worrying how they're going to pay their rent.It seems the reason why we have these kinds of confusion is that even the Minister doesn't know when we're actually transitioning into the traffic light system. I absolutely love and adore Aupito William Sio he is a great man a kind man and a gentle soul—and he's a friend. But he is confused as well—or did he just contradict the Prime Minister by saying that we're moving to the traffic light system on 29 November? As far as I know the Prime Minister made the announcement today that they were going to make an announcement on the 29th about the announcement. So even the Ministers don't know.Another thing that the Ministers seem to be confused—not Aupito but Hon Chris Hipkins Hon Robertson and the Prime Minister seem to disagree on whether or not we will actually transition out of Auckland. We're going to get some slots—like a time-share holiday outside of Auckland almost.When the announcement is actually made—regarding when Aucklanders can actually open in terms of hospitality businesses—they need more than a day. Because when Auckland—when the whole of New Zealand went into lockdown on 17 August I was travelling through doing a regional visit and I was travelling back to Auckland. It was late in the afternoon when the announcement was made but we went into lockdown that night. Not in a couple of days like we did last year when COVID first hit. It actually gave time last year for people to prepare for the actual lockdown.But this time round we didn't get that kind of lead-in. There were many businesses including an ethnic florist—a Chinese lady—who was devastated that she was stuck with $70000 worth of flowers that were due to be shipped out the next morning. By the time the Government announcement was made she could not make any kind of arrangements because all of the couriers that she could use were closed. She lost $70000 worth of stock that she could not resell—flowers. Does the Government compensate her? No. It's the damage that she's going to have to wear as a business person.Same thing with hospitality business. They need lead-in time. So when the Government decided they're going to make announcement on 29 November it could potentially mean that we're going to reopen on 1 December. Hospos need more time. They need to ring the suppliers get the supplies in they need to prep their menus or whatever and they actually need at least a week—usually about two weeks—lead-in time for them to properly open get their staff ready and actually get going. It is that time that is required. Does the Government actually know that? When the Ministers actually talk about Oh Aucklanders should be grateful" this is so how much they are out of touch with business people. They have never run a business so they have no idea how businesses actually suffer.I'd like to also thank the communities in Auckland—the ethnic communities. You know many of them who actually have family overseas they are duty-bound to attend their parents' funerals. But because they can't even get managed isolation and quarantine slots they can't come into New Zealand. Or reverse—when their parents actually pass away overseas they can't go or they could go but they don't know when they're going to return to New Zealand to their normal life. So they actually fail in their filial duties and that is such a terrible state. I have talked to many constituents in the ethnic communities who are devastated not only because of that but because their businesses are collapsing around them. They have saved for their entire life to run a business.I'd also like to thank the churches the temples the mosque the ethnic communities that have supported their community throughout the lockdown where they have actually supplied with food baskets food parcels and welfare checks. I'd like to thank all the communities who have actually stepped up when the Government did not."