When our country is going into a period of recovery—and I note that the days for Matariki, Puanga, will be marked off, calendared, 30 years in advance—from COVID; an economic, social, and cultural recovery that will take the next 30 years. It will be my children and my grandchildren who bear the cost of this on our society. Is this really responsible Government? Is this the appropriate timing to be passing something that, yes, is important and feels good—and we acknowledge that—but back home in Whanganui, we celebrated Puanga without the need or necessity for it to be calendared in as a public holiday, without the incursion of cost on people who are in work. And even those of us who are in work and employed, we took time out anyway without that cost being imposed on somebody else—we deemed it a priority to do so without it being calendared as a public holiday.