Mooney Joseph; Nash StuartJOSEPH MOONEY (National—Southland): Thank you Madam Chair. Minister my question is just around the estimated economic benefit from Australians visiting New Zealand during the ski season this winter—what advice has been received regarding that. And just a corollary to that what advice if any has been received on the lack of staff to businesses who have been trying to get New Zealanders to staff their businesses—for example their cafes hotels restaurants motels etc.—but have been unable to get Kiwis to come there? What advice if any have you received on amending the immigration settings to keep the staff that they have currently there but whose visas are running out—and again in line with that what advice if any on getting staff into New Zealand who are skilled in these sectors who can ensure that they can operate? And finally on this topic what advice if any on costs to the economy if these businesses cannot get their staff? I just point to hotels and ask if you've heard the same thing I've been hearing: that some hotels can only offer 50 percent of their beds because they don't have enough staff.Hon STUART NASH (Minister of Tourism): Thank you to that member. Look a couple of things I'd say: I haven't had any data on the quantification of the benefit to Queenstown district itself. One thing I have been told by Tourism New Zealand is that it could have an economic value of up to a billion dollars for the whole country. And as mentioned I'm expecting Auckland to do really well out of this. I'm expecting Queenstown/Wanaka to do well out of this—Te Ānau. I'm also expecting Christchurch—in fact anywhere where there's an airport. But one thing we know about Australians is that they travel to ski more than any other nationality. Quite an interesting fact eh? I mean obviously it's an American European summer anyway; so they wouldn't be travelling even if they could but they can't and they've been holed up in Australia for so long we're expecting a whole lot of Australians to come over to your neck of the woods and to the other ski fields and spend up large because skiers do spend up large.Back to the point around immigration it's not actually my portfolio; that is the Minister of Immigration's portfolio but let me say that as mentioned earlier on in the year the Minister of Immigration and I worked together on a plan to ensure that the visas of those who were in Queenstown at a point in time were able to be transitioned or they were able to have a slightly wider remit for the work that they could do. One thing I did say at the chamber on Friday was that we're not going to be saving spaces in managed isolation and quarantine for unskilled foreign workers to come over and work in the sector but one thing that I'm prepared to do—and keeping in mind it's not my portfolio responsibility—is sit down with the Minister of Immigration and look at what we can do for workers that are already in Queenstown at the moment but may be facing visa restrictions around where they can work for how long they can work and for whom they can work. So we'll work on that. I promised the chamber that we would do that. I can't promise you anything because as mentioned it's not my portfolio but it's something I'm prepared to look at. Thank you very much.