Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National): Well, while the Minister sits there impassively and declines to trouble himself with answering that question, it is a question that I think New Zealanders want an answer to. What we have here is a perfectly predictable issue that these powers that Parliament granted to this Minister at an extraordinary time under a pandemic were about to expire. He had plenty of time to work out that this was going to happen, and the proper thing to have done would have been to have introduced this legislation earlier in the process so that we would have had a proper amount of time to debate it, to consider it, and to fully understand the implications of it. That's how Parliament works in this country. 