In the past weeks, we have increased capacity in our managed isolation and quarantine system to ensure that more New Zealanders can enter the country, but we are now close to exhausting our nationwide available safe capacity. Even if there were large numbers of fit for purpose facilities, there is a limit to how many facilities we can safely and responsibly manage at any one time. We need to ensure that our managed isolation and quarantine facilities are just that—managed. We also want to ensure that spaces in the managed isolation and quarantine system are available for New Zealanders and their partners and dependants to return home.