Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education): The Government has not yet made a final decision on when years 1 to 10 students in Auckland will return to learning on a school site. I would note that since our current restrictions have been in place, students have been supported to learn from home, and I want to thank our teaching community for the enormous amount of work that they have done to ensure that those young people are supported to continue their learning when they're unable to be physically on the school site. The Government is aware of the risks of having students away from the school site for a prolonged period of time. That is one of the reasons why we have worked very hard to ensure that schools can stay open over the last 18 months and have, up until recently, had one of the lowest rates of school closure in the OECD. We do have to balance up the risks to children's education with the risks of COVID-19. We are acutely aware of the fact that, for primary school students in particular, when those schools reopen, they will be the highest concentrations of unvaccinated people in the country.