Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Minister for Women): Tēnā koe, Mr Speaker. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I rise in support of this bill. I want to start just by providing some perspective. I'm sure that many New Zealanders have watched what's happened around the world. For many of them, they will have friends and whānau who live in other countries. I have a number of friends and family who live in the United States and in other countries, but particularly in the United States, where I have friends who work in hospitals as health professionals. I just have to express my intense gratitude for everything everyone in New Zealand has done to get us to this point, because it seems, frankly, like a miracle to my friends and family in the United States who are looking at thousands of deaths every day, and in some cases now, front-line health workers who are otherwise young and healthy people have contracted COVID-19, been extremely, seriously ill, and even died from it.