Hon DAVID PARKER (Attorney-General): I do want to put some important points down in my speech in a formal way, which is important at a third reading, in respect of the future interpretation of this legislation. But, before that, I do want to respond to Erica Stanford's suggestion that we could have closed the border earlier. As the Minister of Justice interjected at the time, until less than a week before we closed the border, there were about 5,000 New Zealanders—citizens and permanent residents—returning every day, and it was not possible to put them in quarantine, because you'd have quickly run out of hotel beds.