Leavasa Anae NeruDr ANAE NERU LEAVASA (Labour—Takanini): Fakaalofa lahi atu Madam Speaker. Thank you for the opportunity to rise as the MP for the beautiful Takanini and speak as the last caller for the Biosecurity (Information for Incoming Passengers) Amendment Bill third reading. I haven't had the pleasure of speaking in the first two readings of the bill nor sitting in the select committee that worked on this but I would like to thank again like my colleagues the member Steph Lewis for bringing this bill to the House and also the Primary Production Committee for working on this important bill.Being the last speaker and wrapping up I just want to look back at what the bill does and definitely how it strengthens New Zealand's biodiversity system—Glen Bennett: I'd love to know.Dr ANAE NERU LEAVASA: —thank you sir—and also protects the primary industries environment and also our way of life. It amends the Biosecurity Act 1993 requiring the large commercial craft en route to New Zealand that arrive and provide information to craft passengers about the law relevant to arrival in New Zealand. Just looking at how this will provide a robust biosecurity system we speak about the pests and diseases and keeping them out protecting our environment as well as the livelihoods and wellbeing of New Zealanders. Madam Speaker I just want to look at my beautiful electorate of Takanini—I know that's adjacent to yours as well Panmure-Ōtāhuhu and it's also beautiful. I look at Barry Curtis Park in the northern end and the Botanic Gardens and Totara Park centrally. I know Manukau Sports Bowl is in my electorate now being one of the newest. We have Puhinui Stream running in the middle of the electorate and that's one of the areas where our streams are trying to provide more life in protecting that stream because it goes through many of the other electorates. I know that mana whenua and Auckland Council have made a commitment to make sure that we clean up that stream because I know that back in the day tamariki used to swim in there and that's part of our health and wellbeing. Hopefully soon we can get back to that with our whānau using that stream once again.I always try to connect things back to health. I look at the different models of care and the Whare Tapawhā or the Fonofale model of health looks at the whare when we look at the pillars but also where the whare sits and environment is a huge thing that impacts on our health and wellbeing. So we need to protect and strengthen our environment which will also strengthen the health and wellbeing of our whānau and as mentioned before our tamariki and future generations to enjoy the green spaces the waterways and for our animals to enjoy and thrive in those ecosystems.New Zealand has a good brand globally—clean and green; it's one of our foundations in the global market place. It draws a lot of visitors and also adds to our exports and shapes how the world sees us. The biosecurity system will make this more resilient and I know it is our taonga; it's our treasure. Just reading some of the documents and seeing when this Government came into place in 2017 and seeing what they came into and seeing where the biodiversity was at at that point and reading that New Zealand was one of the countries with the highest proportion of threatened species in the world with declining biodiversity at the point. More than 3000 of the native species were in serious trouble—142 species were more at risk in 2008; three quarters of the native fish and a third of both invertebrates and plants were threatened with extinction. So again having to strengthen our biodiversity will definitely help in that space and also trying not to endanger our native species and upset ecosystems.I recently arrived back from Latin America going on a Speaker's delegation. We travelled to four countries—yes we had Ian McKelvie from our National counterpart we had Ricardo Menéndez March we had Naisi Chen join us and obviously with the Rt Hon Adrian Rurawhe on that trip. We travelled to Chile Uruguay Argentina and Mexico and we met with our counterparts in Parliaments on that end.There were three things that I picked out to the things that they were discussing. Number one was the All Blacks; number two was our COVID response; and number three was how beautiful Aotearoa New Zealand is. In Argentina we met a person who's been here—one of our parliamentarians' counterparts—seven times. They've been to Aotearoa seven times because of how beautiful our country is. I think that's you know when we're discussing exports and trading why one of those big things of our brand clean and green" is kept up there.I want to acknowledge the biosecurity officers on our return back. We had been on a farm in Uruguay—and I just want to say Uruguay is beautiful almost on par with some of our green spaces here. We went to a dairy farm just to see how things are managed there. In the back of our minds we were always thinking "Got to have clean shoes; make sure that we're cleaning everything that we've been to." in terms of the farm. When we got here we had cleaned everything but our biosecurity officers made sure they double-checked and they actually double-cleaned some of our shoes as well. So again I want to acknowledge the important work that they do protecting our border.The select committee have done many amendments to the bill. Again like my colleagues have said unanimously across the House have agreed to it. Commencement date general duty of providing biosecurity information moving detailed duties from primary to secondary legislation looking at the powers of the director-general also changing the duty to providing information to passengers rather than all the people on the board—those are just some of the clauses that were looked at and changed during that select committee process.It's all about trying to manage risk. It's about trying to protect our environment—again tying that to the health and wellbeing of our whānau our tamariki and our communities. We don't want unwanted pests and disease to change things. I think some may take our freedoms for granted. We don't want those pest diseases causing travel restrictions of people moving across Aotearoa; destroying some of our wilderness areas; spoiling our waterways—again I mention Puhinui Stream; we don't want that to further degrade—reducing our animal plant and fishing stocks; trying to make sure that our exports are pretty good across the globe as well and benefiting our economy. We definitely don't want pests attacking many of our community members and diseases carrying and transferring to people as well.As the last speaker on this bill again I want to acknowledge Steph Lewis—well done for her bill to go through the House tonight. I don't want to take up too much time but wrapping I commend this bill to the House. Fa'afetai lava.Motion agreed to.Bill read a third time."