Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Kia ora Mr Speaker. I would like to join with others around the House in congratulating the member Jacqui Dean for getting her—all of the members actually for getting their biscuits out of the biscuit tin. I've had a couple of biscuits in there as well and sometimes your biscuits come out and sometimes they don't and that's just how the cookie crumbles.Hon Members: Aw!TEANAU TUIONO: It's 9.05 p.m. folks. I join with colleagues across the House around the support for very strong biosecurity measures as well. I guess all of us around the House want to make sure that we do the best things that we can do for our tamariki and for our mokopuna: making sure that they have clean rivers to swim in making sure that they have forests that haven't got kauri dieback tramped through them making sure that those things are there making sure we do all the things to make sure that we revitalise the biodiversity and making sure we do the best things that we can do to take care of the flora and fauna. It's also very important to make sure that we do all the things as well to protect the regions and to protect the provinces acknowledging the role that the provinces have in making sure that we have food and fibre and jobs and that way of life for folks as well and making sure that biosecurity measures are in place as well.This bill proposes to do a number of things. It increases the immediate infringement fee from $400 to $1000 for the offence of making an erroneous declaration relating to possession of specified goods at the border. It also increases the conviction penalty for the same offence from $1000 to $2000 and it gives immigration officers the power to deport those on temporary entry class visas who breach any of the requirements of the Biosecurity Act.I guess where we've landed on this is whether this is actually going to do what we want it to do. I look at the fee going from $400 to $1000 and think Well will that actually stop people from actually doing these things?" I do want to acknowledge the other biosecurity bill that we did have in the committee of the whole House the Biosecurity (Information for Incoming Passengers) Amendment Bill—that we talked about as well. This bill possibly at first glance for us anyway looks like a solution looking for a particular problem.Simeon Brown: That's the Plain Language Bill. You've got the wrong speech notes.TEANAU TUIONO: We are not yet convinced that this will actually—that's the Plain Language Bill? You're three hours a bit late mate.So we're not convinced that this bill will be the right mechanism to actually carry out some of those problems. As I followed through the previous biosecurity bill there were very specific things that it was trying to address. It was looking at making sure that videos were available and that those videos were made accessible in other languages as well because when people come into the country they have to make sure that they understand the conditions and the rules that are here when they arrive here. Is that the problem that we're dealing with that this bill is trying to do? Is it a language issue? Is it an access-to-information issue? Is it actually trying to deal with people who have nefarious intentions in terms of trying to bring stuff through and are they doing it through the planes or not?So where we've landed on this at this particular point in time—and I understand that in order to get this through the House you need to have the support of both Labour and National and congratulations to the member for being able to do that as the bill will land at the select committee—is that there is not sufficient clarity enough for us to support the bill at this time. Thank you Mr Speaker."