Smith StuartSTUART SMITH (National—Kaikōura): Thank you Madam Speaker. Well it is a pleasure to stand and to support the amendment made by Simon Bridges that this House has no confidence in this Government. I think the issue was quite well highlighted by my colleague David Carter who is a very experienced member of Parliament who speaks incredibly well not just a speech with great oratory and great presentation but with great substance. As he quite rightly pointed out that is what the Prime Minister's statement lacked: substance. Unfortunately we've just finished the year of non-delivery we're now into what is going to be the election year and we're confronted now with an issue coming at us like a freight train in COVID-19. It is not that COVID-19 will necessarily kill that many people. It's going to cause a lot of financial issues and it will put our health system under quite a lot of stress. The problem is that our economy has been going backwards under this Government. It doesn't give us the headroom to fight this issue that's coming down the road at us. What it requires is leadership. We require leadership as a nation to deal with this issue and clearly we don't have the people in the ministerial positions that are capable of doing it. I wish they were because we will need it—we will need it. I'm not just talking party politics here; I'm actually really concerned about this issue.I mean we look at things like KiwiBuild as just a great example of the failure of what was quite a good idea really but a failure to deliver because they don't understand how to do things that they've never had any experience in working in. Anyone who knows any property developers know that they usually lose a bit of money along the way till they figure out the formula and how it works. Even with the Government's cash Phil Twyford still could not deliver.Unfortunately we're seeing it also in every other sector—higher fuel prices higher rents all those sorts of things—making it much more difficult for families. We have an immigration system that is particularly in a bad shape to deal with this issue. As a result of COVID-19 the Beijing office has closed for very good reasons obviously but 7000 files that they have over there have been re-allocated round the other Immigration New Zealand offices just putting more pressure on a system that was under extreme pressure because the Minister didn't move fast enough.Unfortunately even visitor visas are being delayed significantly. They blew out from 16 days' to 28 days' wait average time for a visa to be processed since 1 November. Now we have a tourism sector that's struggling and at the moment those visa delays are crucial. People will make a decision not to come here because they can't stand the uncertainty of waiting for a visa. So they will elect to go to another destination. I think the Minister should make a good leadership decision—whether he's capable I'm not sure—to actually put the focus on the visitors from countries that don't create a risk for us and process those ones quickly so we can get people into New Zealand and keep our tourism businesses afloat. It's really important it's really simple and that is leadership. Unfortunately we're not seeing it there.I also want to talk about indigenous biodiversity and the proposals for a National Policy Statement in this area. I know it's very concerning in my area. I've got two relatively small councils in my electorate; one's the smallest on the mainland. The cost of actually implementing this will break that council. This hasn't even been thought about or recognised by the Government and unfortunately as one of my constituents pointed out the people that will be hurt the most are the ones that have done the most to protect their biodiversity in their properties. The fact that there is indigenous biodiversity on these properties speaks to the fact that these people care about it. They protect it. They have gone out of their way to fence these areas and actually they are going to be punished for it.We have huge amounts of area under Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust around New Zealand on the farms around New Zealand and this Government is thumbing their nose at that. You're better to take people with you rather than to just try and trample over the top of them as unfortunately the Minister is. It shows no respect for what people have done it is not a good way to do things and that's why I support that amendment.