Browning Steffan: Border Processing (Trade Single Window and Duties) Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBrowning Steffan: Border Processing (Trade Single Window and Duties) Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 11 March 2014. Volume:697;Page:16525. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]STEFFAN BROWNING (Green):It is interesting to hear the Minister in the chair the Minister of Customs say that this is nothing to do with biosecurity and is nothing to do with the issues surrounding IBM and the roll-out of it; this is just the legislation the Border Processing (Trade Single Window and Duties) Bill. The legislation? Fine. We will be supporting the legislation. But what does that mean with biosecurity? What does that mean with the debacle that seems to be happening with the roll-out of it? These things do come into it and I will speak to both of them to some degree.It has been noted that the contract for $75.9 million in 2011 for the first phase is now expected to be over $200 million when subsequent phases are completed. There was a budget blow-out to $90 million in August 2013 for the partial system. There has been hold-up after hold-up as this has been rolled out and it is good that there has been a partial roll-out at least and the people have been able to test it but there is something else going on. The Minister might be able to tell us when we will hear about the level of mistake and error that has gone on to the point that we do effectively seem to have a type of Novopay situation. We know that you looked at it from that point of view to see whether there were many comparatives and it appears that there might be.The core of the system for smarter targeting of people and goods is still not in place. It is still not in place. It has been quite some time and we are not there. One million dollars per month in lost revenue was suggested at one crisis meeting. I do not think you can gloss over it Minister quite the way you do and expect us to just accept it like that. Sure there is no one single cause for delays. This integration with existing systems—there is always going to be some hiccups there and it be more complicated than expected. I think when something like this is being set up when something is being costed out there is normally a contingency level for those sorts of things. Something bigger has gone wrong and I think you need to be upfront and tell us to what degree that is as soon as possible.In terms of the biosecurity part of it this system ideally will enhance detection and risk management around biosecurity. We might be able to show up the likelihood of some biosecurity incursions but we are having them time and time again. I have spent a fair bit of money to check into one of the more recent ones—the theileria Ikeda strain that has come in. It is one of several that have come in with animals. This can be the only way. Either a tick was imported that was infected or a cattle beast was imported that was infected and has come through whatever systems. Another one that I mentioned last time I spoke on this issue here is horse herpes. There is a new aphis in willow and still the great white butterfly—there are tons of things. But not only did this Government let this Ikeda in but it then sat on its hands effectively and mapped Ikeda’s progress. Now even I who have a lot of optimism and understanding of these things and would think that we might be able to get rid of it give up on it too. This Government has allowed something in and to get away that is costing us millions in our dominant primary production and dairy sector. That is just one strain. There have been strains around for a long time but this strain is costing and it is costing dearly. One farmer said he lost over $80000 from the disease—a disease that is present in over 400 farms and they expect it to double by the end of the year.So is this system going to stop biosecurity incursions coming in? It is absolutely appalling what seems to be the case time and time again with the theileria which has moved through the country where we have had other systems. Novopay has crapped out. This system appears to be ineffective. We have had—