Hon MICHAEL WOOD: The MIAC scheme has played a vital role in ensuring that New Zealanders have been able to return home during the pandemic, as well as ensuring we get time-critical supplies such as medicines and special equipment into the country quickly. Since May 2020, Government support through MIAC has enabled more than 12,300 flights carrying 235,000 tonnes of airfreight with a trade value of $18.8 billion. During the same period, nearly 105,000 people have returned to New Zealand on these flights, which amounts to approximately half of those who have passed through our managed isolation and quarantine facilities. This scheme has protected our connections with the rest of the world and kept trade flowing.