Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: This result is further evidence that our public health strategy of going hard and early to beat COVID was also the correct response for the economy. Getting our economy back up and running without COVID in the community has meant households and businesses can move about and operate more freely than in many other countries. The New Zealand economy was 2.4 percent above where it was in the March quarter last year, outperforming the countries we compare ourselves with. In the same period, Australia rose by 1.1 percent, the United States by 0.4 percent, Canada by 0.3 percent, while Japan declined by 1.5 percent and the United Kingdom by 6.1 percent. The global economy is recovering, but the ongoing and uneven impact of COVID-19 means that the environment will remain volatile for some time.