Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Well the member who's just resumed his seat Jami-Lee Ross is not a lawyer and that showed because he clearly didn't know what the legislation said about vaccinations and testing. But I have to say to the member that there aren't enough anti-vaxxers in Botany to save him in six weeks' time. He's going to have to get a much broader constituency if he wants to still be here in a couple of months and I know that won't be the case.I think this bill is actually a metaphor for the performance of the Government over the last two years and nine months. Let's start with the Labour Party. This is a bill that is high on grand plans but low on detail. In fact true to form as the member who resumed his seat has said there is very little detail about what we're actually passing here. What we're passing is a law that allows the Government to go and do something else of their own volition without returning back to this House and we've had plenty of examples of that.Then the New Zealand First Party say that they want it to go further but they're going to support it anyway. I don't know what Jenny Marcroft was thinking about when she said that there was a right within the coalition agreement to object and to disagree with the Labour Party because they're not disagreeing with the Labour Party. In fact they had an opportunity to provide a belts-and-braces amendment to this bill in the support of Gerry Brownlee's Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) and they didn't take it—they did not take it. So lots of talk there by New Zealand First and not a lot of action—that's been consistent with the last two years and nine months.I say to the Green members: we know that if they were not in Government or the supporting Government they wouldn't be supporting this bill at all. They have a very strong objection to any charging whatsoever for returning New Zealanders—Golriz Ghahraman effectively said that. But because they are in a confidence and supply agreement with the Government they're going to roll over once again and support a bill that they would not do if they had the chance. But Ms Ghahraman was very interesting reinforcing again I think this somehow money-grows-on-trees philosophy of the Green Party because we're talking about a billion dollars and the merest smidgen of collection somewhere in the region of $10 million over the same period and they don't like that anyway. They're holding their nose and supporting this bill.But the reality is that someone has to pay. We are talking not only about those who are coming back for a short period of time but people who have potentially been away from New Zealand for years and years and years and not contributed to the tax base possibly earning very good money in Australia or the United States or the UK and when those countries have the sorts of problems that they have they are seeking a safe haven back in the country of their birth or citizenship. That's their prerogative as citizens of New Zealand but it comes at a cost. It's a cost that presently under this Government is going to be borne by the taxpayers who have been here and are going to be burdened with billions and billions of dollars. We believe and the New Zealand public believe that it is not unreasonable for people in those circumstances to pay more or to pay something towards the cost of their managed isolation or quarantine—more than this Government is putting in place.Disappointingly Mr Ross is not correct: the National Government when it is returned in a couple of months' time won't be able to do exactly what it needs to do and may need to amend this legislation in order to broaden the regime. So that's disappointing because the Government had an opportunity to provide the sort of flexibility through Mr Brownlee's SOPs that would have enabled that to happen.So we are disappointed that the Government isn't going to be bolder. It talks in grand bold statements but then actually passes pretty mousy legislation with little detail and leaves it to regulations—that's lazy in my view. We've had months to think about this and the only reason that we're actually here under urgency is because of the focus groups and the opinion polls that the Labour Party have seen and they say Oh actually 75 percent or more of New Zealand taxpayers who are footing the bill for managed isolation don't like it so we're going to have to look as if we're doing something." and this is that something. So while we support it it is insipid it is weak and it emblematic of this Government."