Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister for COVID-19 Response): Thank you, Mr Speaker. It has been an interesting and bumpy start to the year for New Zealand, and it is useful to reflect as we think about our recovery from COVID-19. It is useful to look back over New Zealand's history and consider other times of economic challenge and economic difficulty for our country and how our current situation compares to those. We don't have to actually look back that far to find a comparable time when New Zealand experienced some economic headwinds. It was during the global financial crisis (GFC). We can compare the success of the then Government in recovering the New Zealand economy from the GFC compared to the success of this Government in helping the economy to recover from what has been arguably the largest global shock that we will experience in our lifetimes. I don't want to speak too soon, but there is no doubt that around the world COVID-19 has changed the game on just about every front. 