The question that needs to be asked here is—and Chris Bishop asked it—why did the Government think it appropriate to reserve itself the power to indefinitely put back local government elections? Why, in the first instance, did it think that was necessary? And why has it now said that it doesn't want to be able to delay, indefinitely, local government elections at a whim? Why? And the answer to that, Chris Hipkins, the Minister for COVID-19 Response just gave, well, he said that because the Government thought before that COVID would be much worse. Well, that's the most extraordinary admission. It sounds as though what he was trying to say is, actually, that he thought maybe New Zealand would be locked down well into next year. We don't have any local body elections scheduled until well into next year—next October, if I remember correctly. Is that really what the Government thought? And he says now everything's better, we're transitioning out. And I don't know if what he's trying to say is that the Government's abandonment of the elimination strategy means that because we're no longer using lockdowns and an approach of trying to achieve zero COVID in a Delta environment, he thinks, well, everything else is going to be going on, maybe local body elections can too. But if that's what the Minister's saying—that he seriously thought until a month ago that he was going to lockdown all of New Zealand for a year, and therefore we wouldn't be able to have local body elections and might need to delay them next October—that is the most extraordinary admission.