Tuiono Teanau; Faafoi KrisTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Madam Chair. We're OK with the extension of the two years and the extension of those powers but I think it's really important that there is direction in the way that those powers are used and that those powers are used responsibly. One of my concerns and one of our concerns is that if you use those powers to just plaster over the cracks people start to fall in those cracks. The mandate of those powers is actually an opportunity to deal with the inaccuracies and the cracks within the system that are already there.With the COVID crisis we know that there are people here who have been overstayers people who have been on temporary visas and the COVID crisis has exacerbated the material conditions of those people as well. So to me it's like this two-year extension argument that we're having here is a solution looking for a problem. I would suggest that the problem that we need to be addressing here is helping to create pathways to residency for those people who have been caught here—creating a broad amnesty programme for people who have been overstaying.I understand that there's around about 14000 people who are overstayers in this country as well. A large number of those people are essential workers who helped get us through the COVID crisis. Also a large number of them are Pasifika people as well; so it would embed the relationship with Aotearoa and with the wider Pacific as well. I think these powers should be directed in that way. I think it would go a long way in addressing the inconsistencies within the immigration system and I think that is a good way for you to move ahead.Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Immigration): Can I thank the member for that contribution and acknowledge that the safeguards that are in the bill that we're amending remain and certainly the powers that are within the bill that we hope to extend we have I believe used extremely responsibly over the last 12 months. But I did want to take his speech as an opportunity to acknowledge some of the issues that are related to the likes of those who don't have regular immigration statuses at the moment in the context of what we're trying to do to make sure that people are safe. I want to take this opportunity to reiterate that in terms of vaccination we want to make sure that everyone in the country gets vaccinated. Regardless of your visa status everyone in New Zealand is able to get vaccinated. I certainly know from some of the Pacific communities that we have spoken to that they are concerned that if they come forward for testing or vaccination it may affect their visa status if that information was to be passed on to Immigration. So I want to use this opportunity in the House tonight—and the member has raised some issues like that—to ensure that we reinforce that the information that people hand over to health officials if they aren't holders of valid visas will not be passed on to Immigration New Zealand at all. We want them to know that they are safe to get the COVID vaccine and that if they fear any retribution because of their immigration status because they've engaged in the vaccination system they do not need to worry about that. We want to make sure first and foremost that everyone who should get vaccinated does get vaccinated and in order to do that that the information they may hand over to officials to make sure they have the vaccinations and can be for want of a better term ticked off on the vaccination spreadsheet will not make its way to Immigration. That will not affect them. They do not have to fear anything out of that. I do think that's one of the side issues that we have at the moment in relation to the community that that member has mentioned and I want to reinforce that they are safe when they get vaccinated and they are safe in an immigration sense once they get vaccinated and have been through that process.