Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Health): No. The member is not correct when he refers to 100,000 deferred procedures. It is correct, however, that 100,000 hospital events have been deferred during the current COVID-19 outbreak, which is not the same as procedures. The 100,000 events include diagnostic tests, outpatient appointments, first specialist assessments and follow-ups, as well as in-patient surgery and minor surgical procedures. I can confirm that urgent and non-deferrable care has continued throughout the lockdown, with approximately 50 percent of normal volumes in the northern region and 85 to 95 percent for other regions. Decisions to defer procedures continue to be made on a clinical basis by clinicians, with the patient's medical needs and medical history in mind, in making these clinical judgments in the broader context of a global pandemic and the need for patient and wider hospital safety. The reality is that, as I have said to the House before, pandemics cause disruptions to health services. The best way to address this, of course, as we know, is to continue our vaccination campaign.