COVID-19 has meant that the ministry, the judiciary, and the legal profession have worked together to ensure the courts adapted through each of the COVID-19 waves, which has enabled more court events to proceed and more cases to be resolved. For example, in the District Court, during the first COVID-19 alert level 4 period in 2020, only 32 percent of normal court events were able to be completed; during the Delta alert level 4 period last year in August, this increased to 40 percent; and during the Omicron red setting this year, this increased to above 90 percent. I want to acknowledge the efforts of the courts, and note that the impacts of these delays have very real-life consequences for every single one of those court participants.