Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson) (remote): Thank you Mr Speaker. And may I begin by congratulating you on your appointment today. As we've enjoyed very collegial relations on the Governance and Administration Committee I look forward to your careful and thoughtful and wise presiding over the House. So congratulations to you Mr Speaker.This is my first opportunity to take a call in the virtual House from my home town of Nelson. It is certainly an interesting experience giving a speech into Parliament from our second bedroom. But from sunny Nelson—and we're looking forward to taking that crown back from other members who've bragged about that today including my dear friend Glen Bennett. We're looking forward here in Nelson to taking back our crown next year.So look it's a real pleasure to take a call on this bill from my colleague and friend and bench mate Steph Lewis the Biosecurity (Information for Incoming Passengers) Amendment Bill. I'd like to congratulate Steph on her bill and on getting it through to this stage. I'd just begin my speech by acknowledging the ACT Party and the previous speaker Mark Cameron and acknowledge for you how difficult it would have been having M. bovis on farm.These issues of biosecurity are ones that actually affect all New Zealanders and all New Zealanders care about them. For me I've been advised by the whips I'm not allowed to use a prop in the virtual House unfortunately but I thought I'd share my own experiences of engaging with biosecurity. I'm known to be quite over the top about biosecurity when I come back into New Zealand. My very first trip overseas when I was 16 years old I went to the United States with my mother and some others on a choir trip. When we were at Disneyland of all places we went into a little shop and I ended up purchasing a rain stick which for those of you who know is a musical instrument that comes from some parts of the world including—it's often used in South America. So I do have a rain stick here and in the virtual House but I'm not allowed to demonstrate it unfortunately. But when we went back into Auckland International Airport by this point being 16 I'd run out of money and had to declare the rain stick going through biosecurity because it has seeds through it and cactus pieces inside it as well to help the seeds make the rain sound that it does. So I had to declare this and it was sent away for heat treatment. I think it ended up costing about three or four times as much as the actual rain stick cost in the first place. Of course because I'd run out of money my mother had to pay for it. At around two weeks later it was couriered back to me in my then hometown of Palmerston North. That was my first experience of New Zealand's biosecurity system.But I must say having had the privilege of being able to travel since then a lot every time I've come back into New Zealand I've seen the signs at the airport and I've taken them very very seriously. In fact I've often declared things I didn't need to declare and even been told off by the biosecurity officers for declaring something I didn't need to declare. But for me it's partly my personality but partly I think as a New Zealander. I think all of us feel this way. We are incredibly passionate about both our environment in terms of protecting it but we're also incredibly passionate about the economic contribution of the industries that rely on not having biosecurity incursions.So many of us tonight have spoken about the impacts on our own livelihoods on our own regions. For me in Nelson obviously we have a huge reliance on our horticulture industry. Just to name a few of them—it's a pity I'm not sitting in the House with my friend Anna Lorck because we could probably have an argument about who had the best pipfruit—we have a range of horticultural industries that are very prominent in Nelson one of which is hops. We've been growing hops since 1842 and we're proud to have some well-established companies such as Sprig and Fern McCashin's Founders Brewery and other craft breweries in the Nelson-Tasman region rely on our hops. We have in my view the best berries in New Zealand—amazing boysenberries. I'm sure my colleague Damien O'Connor would support me in that view. And we grow amazing apples and actually amazing cider is produced from Nelson. Berry cider is something that we're incredibly proud of. All of these industries rely on the goodwill of people coming across the border and not bringing bugs or diseases that can impact on those industries.We know there is a range of things that we need to do to protect these industries but this is one more tool in the tool box. Thanks to my colleague Steph Lewis for bringing this bill to the House because it is another tool in the tool box. For those of us who've been at the border coming through the likes of an international airport and seeing people being pulled aside for not declaring something or for trying to bring something in that they shouldn't—I'm sure people who've witnessed that like I have actually feel quite angry when they see it. We have a duty to ensure that people coming into New Zealand are given good information to understand why it's so important for us. We are not a landlocked country—we're surrounded by water—and so we have an opportunity to put these strict measures in place to ensure that we can protect these industries and the industries that rely on not having pests and diseases come across the border. So anything that we can do to add a tool to the tool box will be incredibly important to protect this industry going forward.My point I just want to note as well is that this isn't just for craft coming into airports. For those of us who come from port cities the practices coming into our ports are also just as important. I note that the Primary Production Committee made a couple of changes one which was a really practical and pragmatic change which was to take away the reference to all people on a ship and to refer only to passengers—over 20 people—on a ship. I would note that in my electorate of Nelson we regularly have cruise ships come into the port of Nelson. It's an important part of our tourism industry that at some point in the future we're looking forward to bringing back into our region. But it's important that people on cruise ships coming into New Zealand are given this information as well just like passengers on an airplane. I just note that for those of us who might not have international airports but do have international ports. It's just as important that we have strong biosecurity measures at our ports just as it is at airports.The other practical change that was a sensible change that has already been referenced tonight that came through select committee was to put the form of information that is used in the provision of information into secondary legislation as opposed to being in primary legislation. As things change as we move to more uses of digital technology this is a practical change from the select committee that I agree with so that we don't burden the primary legislation and make it need to be changed unnecessarily when we can put something into secondary legislation. It's a very good thing to do. Just to sum up this bill adds another tool into our tool box of protections for our border. It amends the Biosecurity Act so that all crafts with passengers of over 20 people are required to provide information to passengers on what they can and can't bring into New Zealand. That does two things: it protects our environment protects our natural forests and our fauna and our animals and it also goes to protect our industries like agriculture and like horticulture. So I want to commend my colleague Steph Lewis for what is a practical bill that is supported from all sides of the House because as New Zealanders regardless of our political persuasion we all know the benefit of the environment and how important our agriculture and horticulture sectors are to our economy. It's exciting to see this bill—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): Your time's done Rachel. I call Nicola Grigg for five minutes.