SpeechSARAH PALLETT (Labour—Ilam): Thank you Mr Speaker. Before I begin my speech this evening this is the first time that I've stood in this House since the death of Queen Elizabeth II and I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge her passing—an exceptional woman who when I was growing up in the Channel Islands we referred to as the Queen Duke in acknowledgment of her ancient title of Duke of Normandy. I think it's really important that we just acknowledge that 70 years of service to your community is an exceptional achievement. Thank you Mr Speaker for indulging me.I'm rising in support of the Increased Penalties for Breach of Biosecurity Bill that's been brought to the House by the Hon Jacqui Dean and I'm absolutely delighted that you have had—sorry not you Mr Speaker but that the Hon Jacqui Dean has had this bill drawn from the tin. Like many people I watch Border Patrol with keen interest and watch with increasing horror as we pass through that half an hour I believe it is as insect-riddled objects and suitcases full of half decomposing fish and other food products were revealed to our eyes. But the serious part of this is that the risk that it poses to our extraordinarily beautiful and precious country can't really be overstated. I lived through the foot-and-mouth outbreak in the United Kingdom. I can still remember even though I was relatively young television footage at the time of mountains of cattle corpses that were burnt in farmers' fields in an attempt to bring the disease under control and heartbreaking scenes as farmers watched heritage strains of cattle being burnt in their fields—decades; in some cases centuries of careful breeding by farmers who cared so deeply for their animals and lost their livelihoods. But actually the loss for them was far more personal and extraordinary and extremely touching and it isn't something that I would ever wish to see again but particularly not for the farmers of New Zealand. So it is important that we do take strong action to protect our farmers our biosecurity our plants and our native fauna as much as we possibly can.Like many people I fly pretty frequently because I was born in the United Kingdom and immigrated into New Zealand in 2004. I've flown backwards and forwards a fair few times from the UK and I was one of those people that initially used to bring half a suitcase full of treats and snacks full of the foods that I believed I couldn't live without. But I was really careful to ensure that none of the foodstuffs that I brought posed a risk to our precious country here. One of the things that I used to bring by the kilo was proper Marmite and the definition—Rachel Brooking: No!SARAH PALLETT: —of proper Marmite is the hill Ms Brooking on which I will die but it doesn't pose a risk to New Zealand.I've also been part of a travelling party that experienced what we call the $400 tomato as one of one of the members of our party had actually brought some food from where we were staying on to the plane for consumption on the plane and then completely forgotten about it. But as we're aware breaking the law you can basically do it unintentionally. You can do it by accident. You can do it because you forgot. You could do it because you're careless but at the end of the day that tomato did potentially pose a really significant risk to our precious lands here. So this bill would see the $400 tomato turn into the $1000 tomato and completely appropriately in my view because anything as I say that can discourage people from breaching those precious and important laws is to be encouraged. I commend this bill to select committee and to the House.