However, on a more positive note, as we look towards kick-starting the economy and we turn to recovery from the disruption COVID-19 has done and continues to do to us as a nation, I want to highlight the Government's response to rural and regional New Zealand during this pandemic. This is evident in the central government's response to invest $28 million to redeploy forestry workers in Te Tai Rāwhiti prior to the lockdown, when it was a region that had already been impacted by the global impacts of COVID-19. 