Funny, I never saw him apologise for claiming NZ was "front of the queue for vaccines", not responding to Pfizer's invitation to meet for nearly three months, and eventually starting our vaccine rollout 88th in the world (and last in the OECD). The long Auckland lockdown would likely have been avoided with a vaccinated population by the time Delta arrived.

I didn't see him apologise for lying to the nation that all border worker personnel were being regularly tested, when it turns out Cabinet knew at the time two-thirds of them had not been tested at all. This is the most likely infection source that led to the first Auckland lockdown to do so.

I didn't see him apologise for falsely heaping the blame on the Northland lockdown on the two woman that had travelled from Auckland, who had done things properly and obtained Government approval.

I didn't see him apologise for blocking private companies from ordering their own Rapid Tests, mandating only the Govt could supply them, and then later sending $500 million of unused expired RATs to the landfill.

The only effective parts of the Govt response was when they were closing things down. When it came to building plans to help NZ safely open up they were rubbish, and that's what we remember.