Hon KRIS FAAFOI: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. It has been almost a year since Parliament unanimously supported the passage of the Immigration (COVID-19 Response) Amendment Act of 2020. It amended the Immigration Act of 2009 by establishing eight administrative powers to allow the Government to respond effectively and efficiently to issues arising due to the imposition, obviously, of the global pandemic. The bill was considered by the Epidemic Response Committee in the previous Parliament. When we in this House considered the bill last year, it was not clear how long the impacts of the global pandemic would last for, and we hoped it would be brief so that eight powers would expire on 15 May of this year. 