ERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you. I didn't get the answer to my questions, so I'm going to ask them again, because the Minister has reiterated what he said the whole time, which is just "COVID". But actually the arguments in the first place, the arguments he came up with in the first place, were why it was that Immigration New Zealand couldn't process these visas themselves. He said last year it was because they were all at home and we were in lockdown and they couldn't process as they normally would. That is not the case now. This is not about keeping people safe in COVID. This is about the department being able to process visas.