Hon MICHAEL WOOD: Our supporting our Pacific partners has been an objective of the scheme since it was established in order to maintain key supply chain links and connections with New Zealand. The scheme has maintained a critical lifeline for our Pacific partners. There would have been no flights to Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Niue without it. It has delivered essential air connectivity, including for passengers and critical supplies, which has helped these countries in their pandemic response by maintaining an economic lifeline and ensuring that they could access the supplies they needed to fight and recover from COVID-19.