This Government, at some point, needs to accept that it has made enormous mistakes throughout its COVID-19 response. They say, "Oh, but fewer people died." Well, you know what? Anyone can quarantine an island. The question was always going to be: could we reconnect? The question was: would New Zealand only take steps that stacked up and made sense and actually saved lives? We now know, thanks to advice from Ashley Bloomfield to the Minister, that they continued with managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) for four months after they were told it was making no difference. They kept people like Charlotte Bellis out of the country, having to seek sanctuary with the Taliban, because they continued with MIQ for four months after it made sense.