ERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): This Parliament's Speech from the Throne gave us a glimpse into the priorities of this Government: to keep New Zealand safe from COVID-19, to accelerate the COVID recovery, and to lay the foundations for a better future. They are all very noble priorities, wrapped in this cloak of kindness, this kind of warm fuzzy blanket of care that is some kind of invisible force-field around us that makes us all feel very nice. Unfortunately, the priorities and the kindness memo didn't filter down to all her Ministers, including the Minister of Immigration, who clearly has no strategy and no plan, no transparent decision-making criteria as to who we let through our closed border, who gets an exemption, and with no guiding strategy and no ability to manage competing demands of our managed isolation and quarantine facilities (MIQ). The Minister bumbles from one haphazard decision to the next, leaving in this wake a trail of heartbreaking decisions, and head-scratching decisions, frankly.