We have protected New Zealanders from the ravages of the virus that takes no prisoners and, if it had been left to run its course, would have devastated our country. And I've spoken about my whānau being one in the last 100 years that has felt the impact of the influenza pandemic, when my great-grandmother passed away in 1919—leaving my grandfather and his three equally young brothers without a mother. And as a Government we had a couple of options: one was to do nothing, one was to do a little bit, and the other was to go for broke. And we decided that we had to go for broke because it was the right thing to do. Leaving more boys and girls motherless or fatherless wouldn't have been right; it would have been a dereliction of duty. So we had to act and we had to act fast, without the benefit of a manual to guide us.