Dr SHANE RETI (National): Thank you, Mr Chair. The National Party desires to recognise the importance of the health workforce across the health sector by requiring the formation of a health workforce strategy. One of the key rate-limiting factors for today's health system—which, as we speak, has cancelled surgery at Auckland and Christchurch hospitals—is a lack of health workforce. During the peak of Alpha, Delta, and early Omicron, it was a lack of ICU nurses that became a key rate-limiting step. Protecting the health system was code for protecting ICU beds and the 5.2 ICU nurses required for each ICU bed. New Zealanders paid a high price for a shortage of ICU nurses. Surgeries were cancelled so that unexpected delivery to ICU didn't happen. Travel restrictions occurred, firstly, to assist infection control and, secondly, to reduce road accidents ending up in ICU as well.