DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I fear for our small country in the face of new variants. For a long time, our isolation has been our greatest strength. It has allowed us to maintain a kind of walled garden protected by enormous seas, safe from the ravages of COVID that we've watched unfold around the world. But as time goes on, that great strength of isolation begins to look like a weakness, and we do not have, in my view, a clear enough picture, or enough leadership from our Government, about what will happen when New Zealand inevitably reconnects with the world. When we have a release of COVID-19 in New Zealand that cannot be contained, it may not be our choice to lose our isolation and reconnect with the world in that way, particularly if it is a new variant. It may be, as Professor Skegg told the Health Committee last week, that New Zealanders had the easy days, and the harder days are yet to come. That is why it is so vital that our Government's response is the best in the world. It is unfortunate that the most charitable commentators find themselves unable to say that that is the case.