Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Research, Science and Innovation): This morning, Dr Verrall and I launched the Te Ara Paerangi Future Pathways green paper, marking the start of a wide-ranging and collaborative conversation about the future of New Zealand's research and science system. Our research, science, and innovation system has served us well, especially in its response to COVID-19. Scientists and researchers have been amongst the heroes of the pandemic, but the world is a very different place now to when the system was created in the 1990s. We need to ensure that the great work of our scientists can continue, and we need a modern, future-focused research and science system that is connected, adaptable, resilient, and diverse.