Court SimonSIMON COURT (ACT): Thank you Madam Chair. I just want to ask the Minister a few questions about the requirements to make space in airports—the provision of space for different activities particularly those activities undertaken by airport security biosecurity and Customs. There was quite a lot of debate at select committee about what that might mean to airport operators who are already facing budget constraints their own space constraints infrastructure constraints and how much of an imposition this might make on airports particularly those international airports to provide for Government departments to have a place in the facility.I just want to draw the Minister's attention to commentary from travellers arriving at Auckland International Airport for the past few days who have described scenes of feral hordes of thousands and thousands of people queuing for hours just to get through screening. I want to ask the Minister: will the requirements to give space to those Government departments for their screening activities do anything to improve the situation? Is the time frame that the bill now envisages two years after Royal assent going to help in any way in the interim the way airports are operated—given the imposition that Customs and biosecurity and aviation security put on airports is it going to provide them with spaces and places to operate? And what are the costs that are likely to flow to the airports and then to the travelling public? Because when we look at Auckland International Airport's proposal for a $3.7 billion upgrade it could be asked: well how much of that cost will be as a result of requirements that have been communicated from Government agencies that have a legal requirement to be in the airport but who can impose those costs on the airport operator and the travelling public?So Minister just to recap we've heard about terrible queues long waits to get into the country from airside to landside particularly at Auckland Airport. Again in the past few days we know that Government agencies should have a place in airports but given the provisions of this bill which allow them to essentially engage in regulatory undertakings to require the airport authorities to give them a space is there anything likely to happen in the next two years before the bill becomes effective to make it easier on the travelling public?Hon KIRITAPU ALLAN (Associate Minister of Transport): Thank you to the member and that was a really important question. I was quickly just consulting with officials about what the actual impacts are because I think we've all been through the border in the last X period of time and we understand the constraints and timeliness and it's not necessarily the best way to introduce New Zealanders to our fine country so I take that point.And so what this bill has done is it has essentially already kicked off the discussion. There's a couple of parts to it. So first is the requirement right now as part of being an international airport is that they need to accommodate those agencies at the border. We can see that there isn't necessarily the space. What these provisions have already done is kick off that process by which those agencies are engaging—I understand it's already commenced that consultative process because this is what this legislation effectively does: it sets out the way that the consultative process should work to get to that end point. So they're already starting to engage; there's nothing to prohibit obviously that happening swifter and I'm sure that there's a collective will within this House and actually by the agencies responsible to ensure that those matters and having that entrance that we all collectively deserve can proceed without any inhibition.