The Recognised Seasonal Employer situation, as we all know, is dire, and the policies of the Government to try and address this have been totally insufficient, with fruit rotting on the ground season after season, growers closing down after decades of being in business, and with our exports suffering while many Pacific Island countries have been COVID-free for a long time or have never even had COVID. The Government's efforts to fill vacancies with Kiwis have utterly failed, and we're now even seeing health and safety taking a turn for the worst as farmers and long-term workers are at the point of exhaustion—"beyond desperate" in the words of one farmer whom I spoke to. It's a straightforward fix, but clearly it's just all too hard for the Government.