van de Molen TimTIM VAN DE MOLEN (National—Waikato): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise and take a call the final call for the National Party on the Foreign Affairs (Consular Loans) Amendment Bill this evening. It's lovely to be back in the House after the recent parliamentary recess. I think for me that highlighted one of the reasons why this is actually quite timely and important to have this going through the House now. We've heard a number of I think pretty apt descriptions around why this is appropriate and necessary. Indeed I support those in terms of the general tidying up of a slight error that had been in place for a number of years actually and had gone through largely unnoticed. And while still enabling the intent to occur it was actually not specifically operating under that delegated authority. So it is good to tidy this up and I say timely" because we've seen over the last few weeks—last couple of months really—a significant increase in the number of Kiwis now starting to travel again as the borders reopen as the world re-engages and reconnects after COVID-19. We are seeing a lot more Kiwis taking that opportunity to embark on their OE or to travel again for business or to go and see family members or whatever it may be. There's any number of reasons for travel and I think personally it's a fantastic thing for Kiwis to do to get out and see the world.I was actually fortunate enough to be part of a parliamentary delegation just in the last few weeks that travelled to Europe. For me I really enjoyed the opportunity to get up there because I love travelling but also to engage on trade- and defence-related topics which are really relevant. But on that delegation every one of the members of that delegation lost our luggage in Frankfurt. Now this is part of the chaos that's going on up there at the moment. But for me it just highlighted that unexpected things can happen at any time. I think that's part of the intent of this bill: it's to enable an appropriate response to be made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Minister specifically to support a Kiwi a permanent resident or citizen to actually have some support in one of those situations where something unexpected has happened and they have been left short with no funds or no access to funds or any number of other scenarios—no identification documents or whatever it may be. So having the ability for our consular services to provide that support is an important consideration I think.It's nice to have that backstop for those Kiwis that are travelling and for us to be able to provide that sort of support as well to know that we can aid Kiwis when they're going through a particular challenge like that which of course would be extremely stressful for anyone who was facing those sorts of circumstances where they were unable to get back home or had no money lost their passport any combination of those sorts of factors—illness injury—where they just need some support and they just want to get back to their family and friends to get on with life in the love and care of their home environment. So tidying up this little glitch I think is particularly timely given we are seeing now so many Kiwis starting to spread their wings again and travel around the world. So on that note I happily commend this bill to the House. Thank you."