Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: The Government acknowledges the difficulty some building and construction players experienced during the COVID level 4 lockdown. The Ministry of Education is temporarily lifting its retention requirements, which releases an extra $23 million earlier in the process to help relieve some of the financial strain construction firms are under. The release will cover 246 projects at 237 schools across the country and will help to ease the cash flow and go some way to reducing the impact of the lockdown on those firms.