Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Health): The member's assertion that there were 358 ICU beds and ICU capable beds in our public hospitals at the end of April 2020 is wrong. I assume the member refers to the figure of 358 because it appears on the Ministry of Health website dealing with ICU capability and ventilators. I refer the member to the text accompanying that data: "The beds are predominantly within DHB hospitals but also include ICU beds available by agreement for use in private hospitals." I'm advised that at the end of April 2020, an agreement reached with private hospitals during the peak of the first COVID-19 outbreak saw 30 beds kept available in the private hospital network for ICU patients. The figures provided for 6 September 2021 does not include those 30 beds. I might add that in addition to availability of beds since August last year, the DHBs have acquired additional ventilators and now have around 700 intensive care capable ventilators. We've commenced, also, a training programme to upskill nurses to work in an ICU environment, and we have trained roughly 1,400 nurses under this programme.