DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I rise on behalf of ACT in opposition to this COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No 2). This is a bill that refines and extends the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act. That is the law passed by this Parliament, I think it was last May, or maybe a little later in the year that allows the Government to do things like set alert level restrictions. It allows the Government to require people to be tested at borders, it allows people to be fined, it allows the Government to operate managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ), and a range of other policies that it's put in place as part of the COVID response to date. The reason that we oppose it is that at this point, 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, you would hope that the Government would have a bit more ambition than continuing the status quo. It's a status quo that can best be described as a policy of eradication of COVID-19 by lockdown, with the dividends of being able to enjoy relative freedom with our oceans protecting us and allowing there to be no COVID-19 in New Zealand. There's only a couple of problems with that strategy, and those are the reasons why we oppose this bill extending the length of the status quo.