The Minister mentioned that his driving rationale for pushing through this legislation at this time was twofold. Firstly, it's in response to the COVID situation where the world has been thrust into an incredibly unusual health and also business and economic situation, and New Zealand businesses, like those around the rest of the world, have struggled in some cases to come to terms with the situation that has confronted them. But to use the cover of COVID as, essentially, an excuse and a methodology for bringing in what I suspect has been long-time Labour Party policy, driven from trades hall—that an extension of paid sick leave should come through in a legislative framework—I think, in some ways, is to devalue the seriousness of the COVID situation. 