Menéndez March RicardoRICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Thank you Mr Chair. Just briefly touching on some of the points raised earlier around the funding model I wanted to get an understanding from the Minister as to whether he thinks the current model of where immigration is going is effectively reliant on visa fees in order to continue operating—is it fit for purpose?—and whether the Minister thinks that that kind of approach actually takes Immigration New Zealand's purpose away from providing a public service to one that is basically like a business arm of the legislation and therefore actually puts competing interests in terms of the delivery of services and therefore that is impacting decisions both in terms of visa processing and other policy outcomes.I wanted to touch on I guess some of the recent decisions as well in terms of visa replacements that have been offered to working holiday visa holders. I just wanted to get an understanding whether the fact that the Minister decided to reissue thousands of visas potentially to working holiday visa holders does not come a little bit I guess in conflict with the refusal to do the similar thing for migrants who've been stuck offshore many who do have those longstanding ties to Aotearoa. I just wanted to check in terms of aims and consistency of policy goals whether there may be a bit of a contradiction here because I understand that the decision to reissue those visas was for the purpose of enabling alleviation of the labour shortages.Also I wanted to understand with the immigration rebalance that is under way and that it is a major goal—it's part of this next year—I note that when the changes to the rights of partners of temporary work visa holders was being discussed—and therefore a decision was made in terms of restricting those rights of the partners—there were concerns expressed at a Cabinet level in terms of the increased risk of family violence due to this policy change and that coming from a place of pushing people into financial dependency. I wanted to understand whether the Minister agrees with these concerns and what he will do about it in this year and whether these changes actually align with Te Aorerekura—the National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence.I also wanted to understand when the review of the family violence visa eligibility will be undertaken in this year and when does the Minister expect it to be finished? I also wanted to get an understanding of whether the Minister acknowledges that the changes to partnership visas may actually end up driving people to work under the table and how does this complement the work that the Minister is doing to end migrant exploitation?In regards to the parent category visa I wanted to get an understanding of where the Minister expects to finish a review of the parent category visa and just whether the Minister could acknowledge that during this process. During the lockdown there were many parents who spent a significant amount of time here in Aotearoa during the lockdowns in the period when our borders were closed and are now facing those pressures of having to go back to their homelands often in precarious conditions and if we had finished that review maybe these parents actually would already be arrested and some would be facing that prospect. I just wanted to get a sense of what message he'd be sending to those parents.I also would be keen to get an understanding of how the Productivity Commission's report particularly regarding the recommendation to end the employer-bound visa practice aligns with his goals in the immigration rebalance which continues this sort of policy.Finally just on the working holiday visas that have been issued and extended with the reliance on working holiday visas—which are open work visas and actually allow people to work for jobs that pay low wages—whether the emphasis on basically increasing the number of migrants in those kinds of jobs contradicts the attempts that he's making at restricting the working rights of partners and whether again there may be a contradiction of lack of coherency with that kind of approach.Finally I wanted to get an understanding of when he expects the review of partnership work visas to make them more culturally appropriate to conclude as per Labour's manifesto promise. And just acknowledging that the culturally arranged marriage visa isn't working and that the overwhelming feedback is that the living together requirement is not fit for purpose and doesn't acknowledge the cultural diversity that people may be coming from when making this application. Thank you.