Mitchell Clayton: Passports Amendment Bill (No 2) — Second ReadingText is subject to correctionMitchell Clayton: Passports Amendment Bill (No 2) — Second Reading[Sitting date: 08 September 2015. Volume:708;Page:4. Text is subject to correction.]CLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First):I rise on behalf of New Zealand First to join in the fanfare of entertainment this evening and to actually put New Zealand First’s voice out there to say we also show solidarity and a parliamentary collegiality in support of this fantastic outcome. Those are a whole bunch of big words I will tell you right now. They are not as big as the biggest word I know I have to say which is of course a Māori word but we do not even need to go there today.Meka Whaitiri: Say it say it say it.CLAYTON MITCHELL: Well why not? For the sake of the spirit of tonight and it being 10 minutes until 10 Taumatawhakatangihangakōauauōtamateapōkaiwhenuakitanatahu is actually the longest word in the world at 72 letters long but I just thought I would run that off just with big words.I have to say I very much enjoyed the speech tonight by Mr Cunliffe. It was very entertaining. It was sort of fun and sort of provocative at the same time. It reminded me of watching three frogs in a sock and of course that can be very entertaining. Conversely on the other side we had a speech that could actually turn a good bill into something horrid and morbid. Of course Mr Hudson—I do not know—you have just got this ability to turn something good into something so bad. When you “monologued” to us this evening it just about made me put my head in my soup. But anyway we diverge.Anyway getting on with the bill there is not a lot that I can actually add to this. It is common sense. We have been saying for some time that we should actually get along and make a 10-year bill out of this. I do have to give two thumbs up to the Hon Peter Dunne for of course bringing the cost of those passports down to a better area. We would like to see them less but we understand there is going to be ongoing costs so that is a positive. I would like to congratulate the Government Administration Committee. I think it has done a fantastic job of bringing that time frame forward a little bit further.Not just wanting to throw stones at the Government I think if it had taken the same sort of approach of the retrospective legislation that was pushed through earlier this year—this is the work to get the $1000 Kick-start programme for your KiwiSaver which the Government retrospectively took away. I was kind of hoping for some retrospective legislation here to actually bring this legislation back because there already are a large amount of Kiwis who have had to renew their 5-year passport just in the last couple of months. That would have been fantastic to be able to get them heard and get them on to the 10-year programme that we are now embarking on.All in all I think it is just an absolutely great thing. It is great to see that the House is in support of this. New Zealanders do enjoy getting out there around the world and as has already been said earlier we are a flightless bird that enjoys the cultures and societies around the world. I think it has got something to do with the fact that we have only one degree of separation in this country. I mean you only literally have to talk to your neighbour next door who knows a friend who lives down in Invercargill and vice versa. I mean you cannot close your windows and your curtains in your house without somebody waving out to you and you knowing who they are. I am not referring to you looking through my window Mr Hudson so do not get any ideas mate. I can see you smirking away to yourself. You are making me feel a little bit uneasy.Very very simply we do support this bill. We commend it going to the next stage of this process and doing anything we can to speed this up. There are only a few more minutes on the clock and so hopefully we can hear from another speaker tonight. We commend this bill moving forward. Thank you.