Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Madam Chair. Minister I want to go back to the processing times. You noted that they had improved and I guess the question is: at what cost? Because if you can get accredited in 90 minutes from putting your application in what on earth are Immigration New Zealand doing in 90 minutes to check that you are a good enough character to be an accredited business? And what on earth are they doing in the three hours that it takes on occasion to approve a job check?Minister I want to put it to you that this—and I put it to you at the select committee as well when we had the briefing around the fact that this is now being exploited because it very quickly has got around the world that we are a soft touch and that there are migrants who know that they can buy their way into New Zealand lie and cheat their way into New Zealand because nobody at Immigration New Zealand is verifying their work history or their qualifications. That's why we get yesterday an article in Stuff that says it's easy to lie and cheat your way into New Zealand. And this is accurate because this is what all of the immigration agents and immigration lawyers are now feeding back to us. And I want to share with you Minister—because I want to ask you a question at the end of this—an email that I got sent from an immigration officer after our exchange at the briefing. There are close to no checks being completed on these Accredited Employer Work Visa applications for the sake of numbers. There's constant talk of fraud where migrants are successfully getting visas with no work experience and then getting a variation of conditions to switch to another employer onshore. He said about the ESWV days—the essential skills work visa days—it was never this light touch despite what the officials said. We have one hand tied behind our backs and we can't do the checks that we need. That is from Immigration New Zealand. These articles are from case officers. We are getting ourselves into a situation Minister where an employer can put out a job advert for any job with no qualifications and no skill required even if it is a skilled job and no one at Immigration New Zealand is picking that up. There's no verification that's required so when the migrant turns up there's nothing to verify. And then they're getting a variation of conditions and entering New Zealand and switching job. We are setting ourselves up for a big problem down the track. Now Minister you talk very much about not wanting migrant exploitation. This is going to lead to more migrant exploitation with low-skilled people who are lying and cheating their way into the country because we are a soft touch because no one at immigration is doing the right checks. There has to be a balance. Minister and I want to ask you this question: how do you think that a business that is accredited in 90 minutes is having correct and proper checks done on them? I have seen businesses with no website and no phone number being accredited. They are then able to employ people with no skills and no qualifications and no verification required. And Minister you have just put off their re-accreditation for another year. They now have two years before they have to become re-accredited. Guess what? Set up a shell company bring in a whole lot of unskilled migrants disappear and set up another one. We are setting ourselves up for a massive problem down the track. Minister I want you to tell me how we can properly accredit businesses in 90 minutes how we can do proper job checks in three hours and where is the balance and are you concerned about articles like this and—I forget the name—Anu Kaloti who heads up the migration group saying that they are seeing more and more workers and visitors turn up in this country who are asking them for jobs and asking them for accommodation and are we setting ourselves up for a massive problem down the track? Are you concerned about it? Are you worried about it? Because more and more people are talking about it. It's now in the media. And is there a better balance between what I think the Minister has done and just gone Oh we'll just trust businesses and not have any checks at immigration at all." and allow people to do zero zero—no qualification and no skill—applications? And nobody checks that. Is there more of a balance to be struck? Is he considering what that balance is? Where does it lie? And is he concerned about these articles that are now starting to pop up day after day about the fact that we are a soft touch because the Minister was under so much pressure to get these applications done quickly?"