Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister for COVID-19 Response): Last week, I announced that the education and the health and disability workforces will be required to be vaccinated to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This follows on from the Government's earlier decisions for workers in our managed isolation and quarantine facilities, our airports, and our ports to be vaccinated. Our education and health and disability workforces have done an incredible job through a very difficult time—a global pandemic—keeping themselves and other people safe. While most of the people working in those sectors are already fully or partially vaccinated, we can't leave anything to chance, and that's why we've made the very difficult decision to make vaccinations for people undertaking those roles mandatory. Vaccination remains our strongest and our most effective tool to prevent against infection and disease, and we need as many workers as possible to be vaccinated to allow sectors like these to respond to the pandemic whilst continuing to deliver everyday services with as little disruption as possible.