On 13 May, the House passed the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act, which gives the Government some wide-ranging powers to react quickly to suppress COVID-19. The purpose of this motion is to ensure that the orders made under section 11 of that Act receive the appropriate parliamentary scrutiny. These orders can be made by the Minister of Health or the Director-General of Health. They can control or limit travel, social distancing, social gatherings, isolation, quarantine, contact tracing, and other actions that have become very familiar to New Zealanders as we have been engaged in this fight against COVID-19. These powers are exceptional, and it's important that processes are put in place to allow Parliament to exercise its responsibility to scrutinise the executive by putting in place a sessional order that describes the process that will take place as Parliament does that.