Hon ANDREW LITTLE: I don't know whether the member has noticed, but we're not only two years into a pandemic but we are, sort of, about three weeks into one of the most significant outbreaks of the total COVID pandemic that we have ever seen. So we're now up to, roughly, 100,000 active cases in our communities right across New Zealand. We have over 300 people in hospital in Auckland alone as a consequence of the pandemic. The DHBs have been planning for this, but part of their planning is to make sure they have room in hospital for the people with the very serious respiratory conditions they've got as a consequence of COVID, and that has meant deferring planned care. That is what they are doing. It is a perfectly orthodox, normal response to a pandemic that our DHBs are responding to appropriately.