SpeechSTEPH LEWIS (Labour—Whanganui): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'd like to begin my contribution this afternoon by thanking the Minister for bringing this bill to the House and thanking members of the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee. I wish I could have joined you for this one but alas I'm not on the committee. But it looks like you've done some incredible work over the last wee while. Thank you to everybody who has submitted. It sounds like there have been some very robust and considered submissions made on the bill.I do just want to begin by acknowledging the difference between the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and their biosecurity function and New Zealand Customs functions. Biosecurity is a function of MPI. It's their role to try and prevent those apples in the bag from coming through. Customs' core role is to facilitate travellers through the border. Once they go through Customs it's then at the MPI checkpoint that travellers will engage around the biosecurity risks and it ceases to be a Customs process and begins to be an MPI process. So I think it's really important that we make sure that credit is given where credit's due and really acknowledge the work that New Zealand Customs do as well in particular around catching prohibited items at the border. So what we're talking about in that instance is making sure that firearms illegal firearms aren't coming across the border; making sure that drugs aren't coming across the border. So that's the role they play in that space around prohibited items less so in terms of catching those apples or food in the backpacks of travellers. They also play a crucial role in collecting duties and levies from people bringing alcohol and tobacco and other products across the border to make sure that we are collecting that revenue.I also want to acknowledge the questions that have been raised about the collection of personal information. So under the Privacy Act you can only collect information for which you have a lawful purpose that's connected with your function and activity as an agency. Customs have long-established robust practices in that space and they work very closely with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and with the other border agencies—the Ministry for Primary Industries Immigration New Zealand—and I know that for a fact having worked at both New Zealand Customs and at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.I also want to acknowledge that I'm actually quite excited to see Customs move into that digital space. This isn't a new process. This has been a long road to move into that digital space—one that began beyond five years ago even because it was five years ago that I was sitting at Customs drafting the privacy impact assessment to do our first trial of a digital arrival card where the goal was to get a one-touch process for travellers through the border. So they would scan their passport and their digital QR code from their digital arrival card at the e-gate and unless that raised any flags they would be able to progress right through including through MPI without further contact from officials. So I am very excited to see the progress on this bill and I commend it to the House.