Dr LIZ CRAIG (Labour): Thank you, Madam Speaker. Over the last 18 months, New Zealand's COVID response has resulted in some of the lowest hospitalisation and mortality rates in the world, but the issue we've got now is that our vaccine roll-out has got to a point where we can transition to a framework which allows us to benefit from some of the individual protections that vaccine offers. Just based down in Invercargill, what I'd like to acknowledge is the 93 percent of eligible Southerners who have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and the 85 percent who are now fully vaccinated, because that incredible effort will significantly reduce the risk to our community of COVID-19 and also serve to protect our health service capacity. But, building on the success of that, what this bill does is allow us to introduce a protection framework that will allow us to use the benefits of vaccination.