Swain Paul: Immigration Advisers Licensing Bill — First Reading 
Swain Paul: Immigration Advisers Licensing Bill — First Reading 
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Hon PAUL SWAIN (Labour—Rimutaka) 
: 
 Tragically for the House I am obliged by the whips to be brief but I want to begin by making a quick comment to Mr McCully who earlier raised a point of order about question time. I remind him that if the National Party had not filibustered the Veterinarians Bill for 9 hours and then ultimately voted for it we probably could have had question time. We always know when Murray McCully is not particularly serious because the Brylcream in his hair starts to dry out and get ratty on the edges. And he sat down with a smile on his face so no one took him seriously. 
I turn to the matter in hand the Immigration Advisers Licensing Bill. First of all I congratulate the new Minister of Immigration Mr Cunliffe on bringing the bill to the House in his name. I also congratulate the former Minister of Immigration Lianne Dalziel whose idea started the process. But there is another Minister whom I want to mention. I hear he is a humble man who does not like to receive public acclaim for his work but I am assured that much of his grunt work his hard work—if you like the intelligence and rigour; the donkey work—in bringing this all together into legislation which was before the House prior to the last election had a lot to do with his own efforts. I know that that member will not like me speaking like this about him and I have said that I will not mention his name because I do not think it is appropriate; nor is it fit and proper. But I do think it is worthy of the House to say— 
Darren Hughes 
: A little thankyou. 
Hon PAUL SWAIN 
: Yes to say thank you for doing a lot of the work in bringing it all together. Of course we are a collegial party—there are no individuals; it is all teamwork. We have Lianne Dalziel and David Cunliffe but there is one other person who will remain nameless and I think we should do that person the honour of making sure— 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: Name him. 
Hon PAUL SWAIN 
: No it would not be right. He would be embarrassed if that were the case because he is a team player and does not like to have individual glory bestowed upon him. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: He was the best. 
Hon PAUL SWAIN 
: No I would not go that far. Basically the objective of the bill which has been well outlined by both Mr Cunliffe and Lianne Dalziel is to drive the crooks the thieves and the liars out of the immigration adviser industry—that is basically its job. So the good law-abiding advisers many of whom I have met over the last 6 years are able to get on and do their job out from under the cloud of constant allegations about behaviour that continually hangs over this industry. 
The Transport and Industrial Relations Committee might like to have a look at two key issues. The first issue raised by Lianne Dalziel is that there could well be a stand-down period for those who have worked for the New Zealand Immigration Service and who then want to become an adviser. I think there should be a stand-down period so that those people cannot therefore claim that they have inside knowledge and information which I am sure there would be a temptation to do. The other issue is about international advisers. The compromise in the end was that it would be 3 years before the legislation applied to them. My view is that it could well be a bit sooner and I would be interested if the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee could have a look at that. But this is a fabulous bill that has been brought to the House through the efforts of a number of fabulous Ministers in a Labour-led Government who are doing fabulous work on behalf of New Zealand. I commend the bill to the House.