SpeechPAULO GARCIA (National): Mr Speaker good morning. We're certainly not after supporting the black market. It is my first opportunity to speak after the lockdown. It's a pleasure to be back in the House. I am optimistic and encourage everyone to be optimistic and courageous going into the challenges that face all of us—all members everyone outside the House—in difficult times.As a new MP myself I have not experienced many opportunities to go through urgency myself and I'd like to preface my contribution by explaining to the public many of whom may not be aware of what's happening here that we are in a special process where specific bills are moved to be heard and carried through first second and third readings to their completion during that sitting of the House. The moving is done by a Minister and information is provided to the House in consideration of that motion to hear specific bills in urgency. Urgency itself—the word specifies a need for swift action and that is why we are here. Over the past 24 hours since yesterday we have stood and debated bills. I stand to speak on the fourth of six bills and that is the Customs and Excise (Tobacco) Amendment Bill. I see that there has been over this lockdown a tremendous need for support for the public and they have come with very many questions and as we come out of the lockdown we find ourselves ready to leap forward and to embrace the day and people are actually saying they're excited to go back to the office. I've heard on TV today that people are excited to buy that first cinema ticket. Certainly—SPEAKER: No smoking in cinemas all right? Just get back to the bill.PAULO GARCIA: Yes yes thank you Mr Speaker. Well as my colleague the Hon Tim Macindoe has said this is a serious bill with serious effects the object of which is to prevent or to lower down essentially—to reduce the use of tobacco by making the costs of purchase very high through tax and that is certainly sensible. The bill seeks to ensure that every person bringing in tobacco is permitted to do so making sure that everyone who does so is identified and known. So that's a fantastic thing.It's important to note that the departmental report in respect of this bill shows that the smuggling of tobacco products and the importation of tobacco leaf and tobacco refuse to evade tax on tobacco products has grown rapidly in the past 12 to 18 months from a historically low base. Interceptions of cigarettes at the border have increased from 2018 to 2019 by 53 percent. So there is obviously a heightened attempt to avoid the tax and to import leaf and refuse so that cigarettes can be rolled in the country avoiding the tax on the tobacco products. So there is a need for this.But I then go to the last portion of my contribution which says that while there certainly is a seriousness to the object of this bill it comes at a time when we are in urgency and my every emotion at coming to Parliament in the past 24 hours has been really to want to see how things can be turned around in a country that is facing a serious economic situation and where thousands of jobs are being lost. I sincerely in humble observation of the list of bills that have been put on urgency including this bill have experienced a sort of a deflation for myself. I thought that this was not something that would help the number of jobs that have been lost and that would not help really the amount of money that this Government needs to keep the country moving forward. I'd like to also just include in this moment a comment an observation that the Rt Hon Winston Peters yesterday in a speech poked fun with indignity at the loss of jobs of members of this Parliament when we are just like everyone out there in greater New Zealand working hard to sustain our families and to sustain the dignity of our own professional work. And I thought that that had no place. I end with a big thankyou to the health services and everyone who faced COVID face to face while we were at home and not working. Thank you Mr Speaker.