Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): Thank you Mr Speaker. I think I'm going to start off by just acknowledging that we have reached a low unemployment rate of 4 percent. It was announced earlier today. The thought that Grant Robertson was out there with shovels making that happen I find slightly interesting particularly as the Government loves to take credit for this sort of thing but it is good that we have a low unemployment rate. But the question is: having thrown $56 billion to get to that point we should be expecting to see some decrease in the unemployment rate but is this as good as it gets? Is this the lowest rate that we can get? Is this the best? Is this what we should be striving for?I think members on the other side of the House might be reflecting on the same theme when they think back to May just a few months ago when Labour was polling at 56 percent and now they're polling at 43 percent. Was that as good as it got? I've got to say on my reckoning that would be 15 fewer MPs in this House and I don't know whether that is his strategy. But the one thing we do need in our workforce is we need skilled people and having a low unemployment rate is good even though we've still got 190000 people on the unemployment benefit—190000 people—but the major issue we've got is the lack of skilled people in New Zealand and just people to be able to get on and make it happen with businesses.I'll give you two examples. I've got a friend who has a kitchen business. They have been struggling so much to find staff. The last person they took on they gave them a shot. It was a person who had been in prison and they are now finding it so difficult because even the people they're taking on and offering very high wages to they are not turning up to work regularly. He's faced with the prospect of letting go a very very significant client because he knows he cannot deliver the type of product in the time that's required. So his next option actually is to let go of the very important client he has downsize and fire another four people. That is because we've got a labour shortage. Some of it's skilled and some of it otherwise.I'll give you another example. I went to a business that makes prefabricated materials for houses—and we've talked about housing a lot lately. This company is so worried about the lack of staff availability that they have imported the latest equipment so that they can process much of it in an automated session using the latest equipment imported from Germany. The issue they have is they cannot even get people across the border to come and complete the installation of that equipment—and we're talking about millions of dollars' worth of equipment—because they cannot get them across the border. This what I'm hearing across the entire New Zealand. Every time I go to a business audience the number one issue is the lack of labour.It's good that the Government is suddenly waking up to the idea of doing something with Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme workers finally after months of doing that particularly when they come from countries that have no COVID who have been screaming out to come here and we have an obligation in the Pacific through our Realm nations there particularly. It is a tardy and long-overdue response. But the basic thing that is happening is this Government is strangling businesses by not allowing people to come into New Zealand and actually help them do the work. I think the worst thing about this is that over time and next year in particular I think it's going to be so much more difficult as we have Australians in here we have the Canadians in here poaching our best New Zealanders taking them overseas and we're still going to be landlocked here in New Zealand.The outlook for 2022 is absolutely horrific and I'd just say to the members opposite: what you should do is pick up the press release from Erica Stanford and Judith Collins today specifying our immigration approach—namely that we're going to clear the backlog of people here in New Zealand who are seeking residency here in New Zealand. The second thing is to decouple the visa relationship with employers.