Hon SIMON BRIDGES (National—Tauranga): This bill greatly concerns me. I mean, there's so much to oppose here, I can't see frankly how we can continue to support it post - select committee. I did administrative and constitutional law a long way back, and here we've got a bill which comes along and delays the regular provisions of the law and gives powers to individuals, to members of the executive, to the executive as a collective, over and above those regular provisions, at their whim, sometimes for a year, sometimes for a couple. Well, that's what lawyers would euphemistically say is problematic; I say it's wrong actually, to do that, and to do what this bill does throughout it without really good reason. As Chris Bishop said in his speech, in 2020, in the eye of the COVID storm, he could accept that; they were remarkable times and they required that. But in this bill, the Government does do it through into 2022 and I say that's not just problematic, it's plain wrong.