Quite clearly there was work that needed to be done to bring the process into play, but we had designed a system built on science and technology and deployed it in the real world - not the simulated world that the Government used to scare us with facts like 40,000 people dying if we didn’t keep everyone locked away. The DPMC were aware of this report, but they never put the Cross Sector Border Group together with the MOH to start working out how we could help them start the process of bringing people home safely as they wound down the requirement for MIQ.

■ The process we had trialled was immediately repeatable and scalable.

■ The trial we conducted exceeded all of the health and safety protocols that had been set by Government, and Sir Ian Taylor.This was a revelation to me and the team at the Cross Sector Border Group because, at the exact same time that the MOH was advising the Government that MIQ was well and truly past its use by date, we had presented the results of our privately funded 151 Off the Bench trial that showed how, by using a number of Kiwi technologies that up until then had been ignored by the Government, we could start bringing our stranded Kiwis home by Christmas.Īs part of the trial, we had commissioned an independent report from Ernst & Young.

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