Luxon ChristopherCHRISTOPHER LUXON (National—Botany): Thank you Mr Chair. Look it's a real pleasure to just ask the Minister a few questions. I have to say—I'll be upfront—I really respect Minister Parker. I think he's a very intelligent man. He's very thoughtful he's always very engaging he consumes a lot—too much—of Thomas Piketty for my liking: Time for Socialism. Apart from that I enjoy my interchange with him quite a lot. But there is a lot of problem here and my colleague Chris Penk talked about it incredibly well. There's no what there's no how there's no who there's no when—it is legislative Hokey Pokey" as he said quite rightly.We are unclear on a couple of things and I just thought there's two areas I really want to ask the Minister some questions around hospitality and tourism in particular and how those businesses are positioned here. A couple of weekends ago my colleague Erica Stanford and myself and Chris Bishop went off and we spent time with 25 Auckland-based hospitality businesses and it's really interesting when you sit down with people who actually run a business—not union organisers not people from academia not professional politicians but people who actually do stuff run stuff know how to organise things and get things done. What was interesting was they said to us "We're going to have a big problem around getting supply organised because everything's been de-inventoried and we're going to have to re-inventory all in a hurry and actually all our suppliers are going to run out of inventory and stock and it's going to take us a while to get that up and running." Then you say "Well how are you going on the staffing side?" and they say "Yep well actually that's going to take us a long time too because many of our staff have been out of action and are not up to scratch or ready to serve." and actually 60 percent of them are often overseas backpackers who aren't in the country. So getting staff rosters together getting people trained ready to go from day one is going to be difficult.The other piece was around processes—so having someone in a cafe who now has to employ a security guard at $30 an hour and man two entrances for many hours each week and they actually deal with conflict with customers and all those sorts of issues—and that sort of sophistication that's needed is a real challenge. But the thing they went on to say that was interesting was that "There won't be that many domestic tourists coming into Auckland and there certainly aren't any international tourists." Aucklanders will empty out and as they hit January and as they hit February they're going to be going to the wall. The question I've got for the Minister is: what in this support package—because it was hard to read when there's no real specificity around—for these people? They're Auckland-based hospitality people who have been doing it tough for a long time. How do we extend support to them and how long will it go what will they get what are they entitled to who is it for—what's the criteria around all of that?So that's one set of questions I'd really appreciate an answer from the Thomas Piketty fan and the second thing is really around tourism. Really what we saw today was a total Clayton's sort of announcement really—the kind of announcement you have when you don't really want to have an announcement—because for tourism it's a really big problem and I know this Government hasn't been a big fan of tourism. They weren't a big fan of it in Opposition. They certainly aren't backing it as an industry here in Government and that's a shame because actually tourism was bigger than our dairy sector. It was our biggest industry in this country generating $42 billion a year or $115 million a day. What was it—about $4 billion in GST receipts came from international visitors alone. So that industry has been structurally challenged since March 2020 and there hasn't been enough targeted dedicated support for those people working so incredibly hard in that industry. Here's the challenge right? If you're Chuck and Mary sitting in Iowa tonight and you're planning that once-in-a-lifetime trip to New Zealand and you've got a whole bunch of choices to make you can go to Thailand you can go to Sydney—you can go anywhere in the world. We've got to try and get New Zealand up into that consideration set and make it the No. 1 choice for them for their holiday. The average American gets about two weeks' annual leave a year. I lived there for eight years; I understand how it works. They're going to be coming down to New Zealand on a fine service from Air New Zealand no doubt about it—I'm sure it's an absolutely brilliant service as you'd expect. They arrive in New Zealand and they've now got to go find somewhere to sit for seven days in a hotel while they then think about what they can do for the rest of the remaining time they've got.Andrew Bayly: That is a compelling marketing proposition.CHRISTOPHER LUXON: It is. So the point is in the tourism sector there have been 380000 people employed. It was our biggest sector. So we're having a Clayton's opening—there is nothing in this bill. There is nothing in the announcements today that says "Tourism's open for business. Our biggest sector is back on track again." and I don't get why this Government doesn't like tourism. I don't know what it is in the DNA; you've just never been big fans of it at all and yet it's a fantastic industry with amazing people doing incredible things each and every day. But I can tell you it's a competitive market. People have choices about where they go and what they do and they won't be choosing to come here. They won't be choosing to spend their money in our local economy and it contributes 20 percent of our exports. So that's a big big thing.So I guess Minister I just really want to understand what's in it for the Auckland hospitality people. How long does the targeted support continue beyond the immediate rush because after Christmas it's all emptying out—there's nothing for them there. What are we doing about these great folk in tourism who run awesome businesses who have stuck with us and done everything we've asked of them but they are structurally challenged in this sector over any other sector in our economy and there's not enough in there to support them and to help them. I'd really appreciate your thoughts around that."