Hon LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō): Thank you, Mr Speaker, and I want to start by acknowledging that there are many individuals, families, and businesses who are doing it incredibly tough right now, from one end of New Zealand to the other, and the 687 individuals who are currently COVID-positive. I want to also acknowledge every single essential worker that is working in their many fields at the moment. But what they won't be comforted by is that this is the year—2021—that the Prime Minister loudly proclaimed was the year of the vaccine, but, unfortunately, we have disproportionately higher rates of those most at risk of COVID that are not yet vaccinated. 