This Parliament does need a special committee; it just doesn't need the one that the Minister moving the motion provides. We have been going through a very, very concerning pandemic, and this Government is much more interested in shuffling the decks on the Titanic of the health system that they have overseen and run into the ground and then decides that one's ethnic background is important enough to set up a special committee but the pandemic is not. Well, I disagree and I have had experience of special committees. I was the deputy chair of the Epidemic Response Committee and I can confirm, as most of the people who were in the House in the previous Parliament know, that special committees do have a place and have an important role to play. Derek Cheng of the New Zealand Herald reported shortly after that committee got up and running that if one looked at question time, one would get a pretty jaundiced view of Parliament, but looking at the Epidemic Response Committee that is the best democracy in action. It was actually quite a pity, having not concluded the business of that committee, for the Government to send a Minister down late one night and decide that the committee should be quietly deconstructed and disappeared. 