MICHAEL WOOD (Labour—Mt Roskill): As we stand here today debating Budget 2020 in New Zealand, with one active case, with several weeks of new cases on a daily basis, with an extremely low mortality rate, and with the real prospect of the elimination of COVID-19 in New Zealand in sight, it is very easy to forget that a global pandemic still rages around the world. That there are thousands of people dying every day; tens of thousands of new cases; over 100,000 dead in the United States—a country that now has an unemployment rate of around about 25 percent—that our nearest neighbours, our cuzzies in Australia, still have hundreds of cases of COVID-19, with new outbreaks happening most days. The first thing that I want to say in this contribution is that we cannot take for granted or overlook the enormity of what our team of 5 million here in New Zealand have achieved together in beating back COVID19. Under our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, we have had a decisive health response to beat back COVID, and that is what gives us the opportunity now for an economic recovery to rebuild and to give New Zealanders the wellbeing into the coming years that they deserve.