Dr GAURAV SHARMA (Labour—Hamilton West): Kia ora, Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure of mine to speak today on the COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No 2). I want to start by thanking and congratulating this Government for, first of all, setting up a Minister for COVID-19. It is unprecedented to have a Minister responsible for a pandemic. Not a lot of countries have done something like this. And I want to thank the Minister for his COVID response in the last two years. I say this not only as a citizen of New Zealand, where I haven't been infected by COVID, but also as a front-line healthcare worker when I was swabbing patients last year. I say this as a member of Parliament for 64,000 people in my electorate, and I say this as a member of the Health Committee, which this bill will go through.