As the Minister already said in his speech, the strategy our Government developed to eliminate COVID-19 from our communities and to keep New Zealanders safe meant that we had to take that unprecedented action of closing our borders. As the Minister said in his speech, that meant making difficult choices. These were tough decisions. The only people at the time being able to enter New Zealand were citizens, residents, their partners and children, and others who had been given an exception to the border closure. Tight border restrictions were then, and are now, a key part of the Government strategy to protect New Zealand against COVID. Our closed border is the first and best defence in keeping COVID out of our communities. This is a very careful approach we had to take.