Smith StuartSTUART SMITH (National—Kaikōura): Thank you Madam Chair. It's interesting the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment's strategic outcomes in which they state they want to ensure New Zealand has prosperous sectors and regions maintain business connections and foster international connections. And of course Immigration New Zealand is a major component to ensure that those goals or those strategic outcomes are actually met.Migrant labour has filled a significant void in New Zealand when we don't have sufficient people with the requisite skills so that businesses have had to seek those labour units those people from offshore to come into New Zealand. We must remember that actually immigration is about New Zealand—it's about a benefit for New Zealand. We bring people in here to fill roles that we can't fill ourselves and so it is primarily for our benefit. Having said that we must ensure that those migrants that do come into New Zealand are not exploited. As part of that the businesses that bring people into New Zealand make a significant effort to protect those people because of course they are benefiting from them and they want as much productivity out of those people and happy staff are productive staff.I find it ironic at the moment that we've just gone through a period where Immigration New Zealand restructured the way it processed visas and brought some of the processing onshore. It was a major change it was a long-planned programme and it had some significant issues—significant issues with efficiency that ended up putting people in limbo for very long periods of time. It significantly impacted businesses who couldn't access their staff because of the bureaucratic processes—overly slow bureaucratic processes. Clearly the Minister lost control of his department and that is very worrying.As we go looking forward—as the Minister has just outlined—to the COVID recovery which is ahead of us we need a Minister who has their hand on the wheel. We need a Minister that is quick to react. We need a Minister that actually makes a decision and not only makes an announcement but follows through and ensures that his department delivers. Unfortunately what we've seen from this Government is they're strong on announcements and very poor on delivery—very poor on the follow up very poor on ensuring that those people that they have charge of actually deliver for New Zealanders not just for the Minister concerned but for New Zealanders.I think as a good example here the Minister mentioned many visas are being extended through to September and I think that's a very welcome thing for the Minister to do—fantastic. However one of the problems we now have is that in lots of regions people are sitting there with a visa no longer with a job quite capable of filling another role but because of the bureaucratic processes they're unable to do it. I'll give you an example: in Marlborough as there will be in other wine regions people that have come in from overseas to work in the wineries have arrived in New Zealand as a cellar hand or a winemaker or an assistant in a winery. Now that the vintage is over those jobs are ending. Those people can't get home. They've come from everywhere: from Italy from South America from North America and some from Asia. Some of those people can't get home. They're stuck here now. They have a work visa but under the rules they can change job type with that employer or they can change employers with the same job type but they can't do both. Effectively if you're working for a winemaker that only makes wine that means you can't go and prune grapes on a vineyard for another employer. You could prune grapes for that winemaker if they employed you to prune grapes but you can't go to another winemaker and be employed to prune grapes.It's a crazy waste of a resource there that people could do it and what's happening is civil defence is now filling the void. Civil defence are supporting these people because they can't get access to Government assistance. They're stuck here they're a willing workforce and there are certainly the jobs there for them. Now that may not be the case in three or four months when a number of people will be unemployed that aren't at the moment but unfortunately we are not in that position now. The job is time limited and those people are very much in need of work.