Logie Jan; Faafoi KrisJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. I've got a range of questions for the Minister and he might want to get a pen ready. I'll go through all of them now on behalf of my colleague the portfolio holder.So starting with the assessment and processing services the Green Party is interested in whether the Government has set any new residency targets that will aim to clear the assessment and processing backlog. Particularly mindful of some of the context of migrants having paid visa fees and their visa applications sitting unprocessed for months and recognising and being interested in hearing more about the process to digitise that process. So acknowledging that in the first lockdown there were thousands of applications that just got stuck and I understand that in this situation during this level 4 another 27000 visas have been unable to be processed and really keen to see that we're future-proofing that to avoid that kind of problem in the future.Also interested in and acknowledging that immigration is really important for us as a country. It's about how we get skilled workers to fill the gaps that we have here. It's about family connections. It's about actually telling people and communities who have played a really important role in our country that actually we recognise that history of closeness between us as people.So we're interested in wanting to hear about the plans for family reunification and how he will retain workers that are from non-visa waiver countries and are unable currently to be reunited with their families because they don't meet the living together criteria. When does he expect to have a pathway for family reunification? That's on the top of a lot of people's minds and their hearts at the moment. Does he think the current settings that create barriers for visa holders from non-visa waiver countries is fair? Linking to that in its review of immigration settings will the Government be considering an amnesty for overstayers; particularly in light of the Dawn Raids apology the COVID outbreak and labour shortages—feels like a pretty compelling argument for an amnesty to us.Then also looking at some of those barriers that inbuilt discrimination in the system. We've been raising the concern and there's a petition in front of Parliament around the ableist settings within our legislation. Just on one aspect of that we understand that the Minister's indicated that he's expecting to receive advice on recommendations of a review of the health requirement in relation to HIV and we're wondering when we might expect to hear more about that; hoping to see that gone.Then—you might be pleased—the final set of questions is around addressing the temporary migrant worker exploitation. We're just wondering if the Minister is confident that all investigations into exploitation are being done with the full participation of the exploited workers. We're wanting to make sure that it's a real investigation informed by their experience and with a concern we had about the migrant exploitation protection visa only lasting for one month whether it's meaningful whether workers are able to transition to meaningful employment when it's such a short period of time and how does the Minister expect to use the employment relations services Budget allocation to address migrant exploitation in light of the recent allocation increase? Done.Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Immigration): Thank you very much Mr Chair. I'll try and address most of those questions if that's okay.In terms of the migrant exploitation there's a new visa available for workers who believe they may have been exploited. There's also an investment of $50 million that I think we announced about halfway through last year in order to increase resources to ensure that those migrants who believe they are being exploited have a safe way in order to bring that to the attention of the authorities and also to make sure that there's the resources to make sure that any allegations of exploitation are properly investigated.To the point that I believe she has been making on—that she made for her colleague around the status of HIV status with immigration settings the latest information I have there is the regular review of the health conditions that are looked at when we assess visa applications is very soon I believe going to be delivered to myself and the Minister of Health and we can make decisions there. I won't pre-empt anything but as part of that regular review we will look at those kinds of issues.In terms of family reunification I understand the difficulties and the pain that that has caused to many migrant families as a result of us closing the border. What I would say is the same messages: we are always looking at those settings and our availability of being able to reunite people in New Zealand with their partners and their children offshore. We understand the pain but we are very much constricted by the capacity of the managed isolation system to be able to make commitments to bring cohorts of people through to New Zealand and to reunite with their families and—as you would imagine—that is difficult with the current situation with managed isolation especially at this time of this Delta outbreak.Just quickly because I want to make sure that other people get an opportunity to ask questions as well is very recently we said we were looking at the issue of residency. Obviously the alert level 4 situation has put some of those opportunities to have those discussions on hold to some degree but we hope very shortly to have a message for those people who are waiting and also some certainty for people who would like to see a pathway to residence because of their time here in New Zealand.