Dean JacquiHon JACQUI DEAN (Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs): I am very pleased to speak in this debate because it gives me an opportunity to talk about the Public Service and how public service is now targeted and is highly prioritised by this Government to improve its interaction with small business and enterprise. In fact Result 9 of the Better Public Services targets is to do with small business and provides New Zealand business with a one-stop shop for all Government services and support. It is a large target—a reduction in effort for small business in New Zealand in doing business with the Government by 25 percent. It is an aspirational target but it is one that as the small business Minister I am committed to working towards.Result 9: Better for Business takes the form of collaboration with a number of Government agencies quite effectively. I have seen it in action and I will mention it briefly in a moment. But the agencies that are in the Better Public Services Result 9 partnership are the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment ACC Callaghan Innovation IRD Ministry for Primary Industries the Customs Service New Zealand Trade and Enterprise the New Zealand Transport Agency Statistics New Zealand and WorkSafe New Zealand.Those ministries are all collaborating with each other with a view of doing better business with small business in New Zealand which arguably is the most important sector of the New Zealand economy. Of course I would say that as small business Minister but you will find small businesses ranging from a single person who has a wonderful idea and wishes to take it up and then finds themselves needing to interact with the Government because they do need to pay PAYE and provisional tax and they do have Inland Revenue Department obligations and WorkSafe obligations. We do want those very small start-up businesses which are one person who has developed a wonderful product and wishes to sell it and make a living—we want to make it easier for those people as much as for the local car dealership or the local restaurant that has five or six or more employees to do business with the Government.A lot of that Government interaction now is being moved on to an online platform and if we had time we could traverse some of the online web pages that the Government is providing. There is now a wealth of information and interactive functions on websites that do support making doing business with the Government more possible. I want to highlight for example  which is the website that small businesses can go to to have a look at a number of the functions that they have to undertake when they are interacting with the Government. For example there is an employment agreement builder on and a number of small businesses have used that tool to do an employment agreement. That is a functionality that is really working for New Zealand.I want to make a bit of a plug for the small-business roadshows. My predecessor undertook 24 small-business roadshows which brought representatives of Inland Revenue Department WorkSafe Work and Income and a number of Government agencies to many towns all around New Zealand. I am continuing with that programme this year. The usefulness of that for small business is that they can come along to a forum at somewhere like Cromwell and the Government literally comes to them. I plan to do 10 to 15 this year as time permits but overwhelmingly the feedback from those small-business roadshows is that it is so good to know that the Government is focused on doing a better job of supporting small business in New Zealand and equally those ministries get excellent feedback from small business about their needs. If the Government is going to do a good job for small business then it not only has to say: OK you can now go on to the IRD website and if you register you can calculate your GST obligations and then you can pay your GST without logging out again."—not only is that functionality important to tell people but we have to listen to small business in New Zealand. It is a very important part of our economy."