Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Thank you Madam Speaker. I think one of the key reasons that we are opposing this legislation and this bill this evening is based on the contribution from the previous speaker Vanushi Walters when she said that from their side of the House this is all about justice; however she acknowledged that some could critique this as creating the conditions for fishing trips essentially by overzealous immigration desk officers. At one level when you hear that you think you know what's that all about? But from my experience in the New Zealand kiwifruit industry over the years and particularly when you hear their very strong resistance along with Business New Zealand to this bill they are very clear about the fact that there has been migrant worker exploitation in that sector and in others that when it occurs there should be the full force of the law particularly when it is at the more egregious side of you know impacting individuals poorly.But rather than dealing with the significant and harder and more complex issue of egregious migrant worker exploitation the Government has through this bill created a mechanism that essentially gives a desk officer in Immigration New Zealand in Tauranga the ability to say Well actually it's the kiwifruit harvest season. This is a sector where perhaps a couple of contractors at the margins might be you know not following every single rule. I'm not exactly sure where that is so what I'm going to do is I'm now just going to go out and demand this documentation from every single contractor in the middle of a harvest when you have six weeks to you know to pick a $2 billion crop."On the one hand the Government will stand and crow about the growth of the primary sector and the importance of those export returns to the New Zealand economic story but where the sort of rubber hits the road when a business is trying to get kiwifruit picked under pressure and you've got a whole lot of people in that space trying to follow the rules and do the right thing the Government's view is "No what we should do is create this power for desk officers to really get their faces in everyone's business when they're under the most pressure." trying to be able to give every single piece of documentation that is expected—names addresses locations; all the detail of every single person that's on their orchard at that time.I can see this creating significant cost and frustration and it's likely frankly to have the perverse effect when you will find—and I'm sure this will happen—that in time when the desk officer for Immigration turns up there will be people scampering and so you end up not actually being able to sit with the sector and work with New Zealand kiwifruit growers Zespri and the like to actually identify the real challenges the real culprits if you like but instead creating frameworks that that simply won't deliver for New Zealand when frankly we need resources and we need people and we need labour particularly for some of those rural sectors.So we think the Government has got their focus wrong. Typically there's high-end rhetoric around the importance of ensuring that migrant worker exploitation is reduced but then they go to the low-hanging fruit if you like: administrative obligations that will only frustrate and cause I think significant disruption for sectors when they're at their most stretched. So poorly thought through and actually won't deliver the big changes that are needed to reduce significant migrant exploitation at the larger end and that's why the National Party opposes this bill."