So what the Green Party wants is: to see the needs of Māori and Pasifika peoples and disabled communities put at the heart of the ongoing pandemic process. I say that in the context of the recent work from the Ministry of Health on the Delta response—lessons that I hope that we have all learnt and have continued to learn and then put in place, in terms of the implementation. We need to empower Māori leadership. We need to empower Pasifika leadership. We need to listen to our disabled communities and our immunocompromised whānau. I reflect on how at the beginning of the year we had incredibly loud voices from certain sections of the community where it made it very difficult to hear those voices that we needed to listen to. People were banging on the business drum. We had all that business happening on the Parliament lawn, and it was incredibly distracting when we should have been focusing on our most vulnerable whānau. The current response falls short of this, and the further loosening of these protections, restrictions in some ways—some of the changes that are being discussed today could be harmful, particularly in the face of a potential winter spike of respiratory illnesses and future variant risks. 