Mooney JosephJOSEPH MOONEY (National—Southland): Thank you very much Madam Speaker. I rise to speak on the third reading of the Biosecurity (Information for Incoming Passengers) Amendment Bill and I commend the member Stephanie Lewis who is about to see this passed into law. Well done.This is a relatively simple bill. The purpose of it is to amend the Biosecurity Act 1993 to require that all craft coming into New Zealand are required to provide biosecurity information to the person on board by means of an audiovisual recording and writing. The main provisions are to insert a new section into the Biosecurity Act that applies to craft that are en route to New Zealand and requires the person in charge of the craft to provide approved audiovisual and written information about New Zealand's biosecurity requirements. It also requires the director-general of the Ministry for Primary Industries to approve the material to be provided on board. So it's a simple bill but it is an important one because biosecurity is an issue of critical importance to New Zealand due to our unique ecosystems and our economic reliance in particular on the primary sectors. The primary sector is worth—on our most recent accounts—$52 billion to the New Zealand economy. That's $10000 for every man woman and child in this country. It's a lot of money and our economy cannot operate without that so this is critical to that.Not only that though. We also have 38 percent of New Zealand covered in forestry. That's eight million hectares of native forest and 2.1 million hectares of plantation forests—1.7 million of that is in production forests ranges and reserves etc. So there's also a very significant ecosystem that we need to protect in our country. We also have a really important fishing sector in New Zealand which is worth about $2 billion to the New Zealand economy and we need to protect that as well. Certainly if I think of my electorate I have the great Fiordland National Park which covers two of these things. It covers one of the World Heritage Forest areas which is one of the great treasures of the world and of New Zealand and we also have the crayfishing sector which operates off the Fiordland coast and is one of the biggest contributors certainly in the Te Ānau region to the local economy but is also significant in New Zealand. Then across the rest of my electorate through various parts of Central Otago West Otago South Otago and Southland which are all parts of my electorate as well as parts of the Queenstown Lakes District there's also a big reliance on the primary sector. So it's very important for part of my region as well as obviously for New Zealand more generally.As well as that there is the value of the biosecurity in terms of the native forestry which I was speaking about and which is also a really important part of my region. I spoke briefly about Fiordland where I have Milford Sound and Dusky Sound as part of my region which attracts people from all over the world and is one of the iconic features of this country which I'm lucky enough to be the representative for in this House. I also have Queenstown Lakes where we have Queenstown we have Kingston and we have Glenorchy—all iconic features of the tourism industry which draws people to this country. We need to protect that unique ecosystem which is an integral part of this region and attracts people to this country. Then if I think about wineries we have some exceptional wines in my region in both the Queenstown Lakes region right through into Central Otago from Clyde Alexandra down through Roxburgh etc. We have some exceptional wineries in that area. It's critically important we protect those which the biosecurity is particularly important for as well. So this is incredibly important for them. Then I also have in the Central Otago part of my region the horticultural industry which is apples pears peaches cherries etc. Well this is the fruit-growing bowl of the South Island which I share with my colleague next door in the Waitaki electorate in Cromwell but that Central Otago region is critically important for fruit production. Again biosecurity is of enormous importance for that region and of course more generally across the country. So this is a simple bill. It is a good bill. I commend Stephanie Lewis for bringing it to the House. I congratulate her on this shortly being passed into law. And with that I'll commend the bill to the House.