Guy NathanHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): The National Party wishes to acknowledge the Minister of Agriculture's statement. It's a very important response for the people of Auckland for the primary sector and to protect our flora and fauna. I know that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) officials and AsureQuality will be working hard. They have a lot of experience. I've seen first-hand the work that they do. Right now they will be working in those mobile labs that we funded chopping up fruit putting them under the X-ray looking for larvae—a huge amount of work will be happening. Of course they need the support of their local MPs and the public and that is going to rely on very open communication. I acknowledge that the Minister has said that he has asked his officials to reach out and brief local MPs which is appropriate and on this side of the House we'd have appreciated being alerted about the find earlier this morning.As I mentioned I have been a Minister that has overseen quite a few biosecurity responses in my five or so years. Each one brings its own set of challenges and it looks to me like we are going to be dealing with fruit fly issues in Auckland for some time to come because this new find says to me and to the officials this morning confirming it in the select committee that there could indeed be a breeding population. The important thing here is keeping trading partners close and well informed and keeping industry well engaged.I was interested in the Minister's comments about resisting the urge to play politics because for the five years or so that I was in the House dealing with some of those responses it was interesting to hear some of the rhetoric from the other side. But importantly I want to focus on the review that the director-general of MPI has announced in the last 48 hours by Rob Delane. The director-general has said he wants this Australian gentleman to find any holes and fix them. This is a real focus on the air and cruise pathway and we heard from the Minister that there's another review happening about the cargo pathway. The one area that is not being reviewed is the mail pathway and we have huge numbers of parcels coming across that particular pathway.What has been interesting to hear is that there is limited coverage of dog detector teams working on that conveyor belt. It's also interesting to hear just from people in the last 24 hours that not all parcels coming across that mail pathway from China are being X-rayed. I raised these dog detector issues last year—in particular when we discovered that for planes freight and people coming in between the hours of 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. at Auckland International Airport coming through the green lane there is no detector dogs working on this green lane exit route between those hours and that change was made shortly after the 2017 election. We are talking about 875 passenger flights 582 freight flights and 7560 passengers over 10 months. Surely this hole needs to be fixed today. National beefed up the dog detector team from 23 to 52.One final thing that I would like to talk about today relating to biosecurity that was very topical in the select committee was indeed officials providing advice through to Ministers on an Earthquake Commission - type biosecurity levy. This is on top of a Government industry agreement where 18 primary sector groups have come together to work in collaboration with the Government on biosecurity preparedness and response. We were alarmed to have this revelation come out in the select committee the day of the Tax Working Group when they are proposing more taxes and levies on hard-working farmers and growers. I'm sure that this will be resisted by farmers with every bone in their body when there is a mechanism in place.Finally can I say I wish MPI well with their response. This is very important to the primary sector and very important to all New Zealanders.