Grigg NicolaNICOLA GRIGG (National—Selwyn): I do feel like I've got the graveyard call on the graveyard shift and everybody's stolen all my good lines so I will definitely try and keep this brief for the House's sake and all the good people that are in it.In a world where we have become so much more aware of the impact that the spread of disease has on our communities and on our society and most specifically on our economy I think the protection of New Zealand's biosecurity is probably more important than it has ever been. I think we'd all agree that that is why every possible effort should be made to bolster any protection we can against possible incursions. In the bill notes it says that this bill creates a simple but effective mechanism to enhance our biosecurity system. We on this side of the House like simple but effective mechanisms rather than highfalutin waffle. It is very timely though to have a bill like this in front of the House. It amends as has been canvassed the Biosecurity Act to require all craft coming into New Zealand to provide biosecurity information to those on board. And as we look forward with great anticipation to our borders re-opening and hopefully the influx of international aircraft and international cruise ships and shipping lines there will of course be a heightened risk that comes with that. So it is an insurance policy of sorts.We do know that this economy is fuelled by our world-class primary export sector and our reputation out there in those global markets for being largely pest- and disease-free. It doesn't come cheap. A lot of hard work has been put in to our economy and our society over decades to try and keep us as clean green and pest- and incursion-free as possible. We do already have those strong biosecurity measures in law and in practice thanks to the Ministry for Primary Industries and Customs and all of those front-line staff who must be acknowledged for the very hard work they do—they've probably had their feet up a little bit more recently with slightly less to do but I'm sure they too will be anticipating that large influx of foreign travellers.We are lucky for the most part for our remoteness. What we've often referred to as the tyranny of distance has actually served us well to a degree in the past in our defence against biosecurity breaches. But as I think a previous speaker mentioned it does just take one passenger with an apple in their backpack—or a nectarine I think Chris Bishop mentioned—for the risk of severe damage being done to our international reputation.For those of us who hail from the primary production sector it's a very very real threat that we face all the time. We don't have to cast our minds back very far to the devastating impact that that Psa incursion had on growers around the country—I think about $800 million in damage and lost revenue. Then as Mark Cameron of the ACT Party referred to the Mycoplasma bovis incursion has been devastating for rural communities around New Zealand and I would also acknowledge those farmers around Canterbury that have had to suffer from this terrible disease. But then of course we've also had myrtle rust and we do always live in fear as again Mark Cameron—I told you everyone else had stolen my good lines—mentioned that we do all live in fear of the threat of diseases like foot-and-mouth disease and probably mad cow disease as well.But coming back to this bill it has been seen by most of the industry—specifically Horticulture New Zealand and Federated Farmers—as a sensible and beneficial extension of extending the biosecurity measures at our borders. There were a couple of minor updates suggested including the requirement to translate biosecurity information into multiple languages and the ability for airlines to be able to produce their own video. Don't we all love a good inflight video? I would have to say I have noticed a decline in the standards with the departure of the previous CEO of Air New Zealand but we're very happy to have him here in this House.But other than those changes the bill seeks to make some very sensible changes to existing law which can only be a good thing. I am also happy to commend this bill to the House.