Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: Many of the workforces covered by the vaccination requirements—so for people to continue to do those jobs they needed to be vaccinated—are in the public sector. The first course of action for those workforces was to find opportunities for redeployment. Where redeployment was not available, then people have been worked with to see whether there are other options available to them. Termination of their employment has only been used as an absolute last resort and people will have had plenty of time to work through that process. In terms of people in the private sector who may have been affected by that, there are supports available—for example, through the Ministry of Social Development. 