Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Immigration): Can I begin by giving a little bit of context as to why the bill that we are amending was passed roughly this time last year. Obviously, earlier in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government made—[Change of Chairperson] that was very swift—one of the biggest and best decisions it could make. It was not an easy decision to make, to make sure that our population kept safe, and that was to close our border in order to put a protective armour around our country to keep New Zealanders safe and to keep COVID-19 out of our country. Obviously, by taking that relatively unprecedented action, the need to regulate the flow of people and also cohorts of groups of visa holders in New Zealand and those outside of New Zealand was necessary, and it had to be done in a different way. The purpose of the original bill and the current Act was to ensure that we could deal with some of those cohorts as groups and not as individuals, because you could imagine the logistical nightmare that Immigration New Zealand would have if we were dealing with changes of visas with people who are in the country on an individual basis. The time that it would take and the resources it would take would have been troublesome, and it would have certainly overwhelmed the system. 