Goff Phil: Border Processing (Trade Single Window and Duties) Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeGoff Phil: Border Processing (Trade Single Window and Duties) Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 27 August 2013. Volume:693;Page:13099. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon PHIL GOFF (Labour—Mt Roskill): It is a pity that every one of the National speakers who have got to their feet have talked a little around this bill the Border Processing (Trade Single Window and Duties) Bill and have then run out of content and substance to actually debate the bill properly. This is an important piece of legislation. I have got to say that when I came into the House to discuss this bill and I saw Craig Foss start the first reading I thought: “Oh my God. The Minister who brought usNovopay and all of the botch-ups that were involved in that is now bringing to the House a piece of legislation that makes fundamental IT changes in our critical border security and biosecurity area.” I thought: “This is doomed. We will go down the same path asNovopay in this term of the National Government.”I was in the House when the National Party brought in INCIS and spent $100 million on it. National members spent $100 million on a police computer system and it failed and they chucked it away—$100 million down the drain. I thought: “I do support the concept of a Trade Single Window and I do support the joint border management system but do I have confidence in this National Government which has a track record of bungling IT every time they put their hands on it?”. There he is—John Hayes is putting both hands up in the air to take responsibility for each of those failures.I am particularly worried because this bill does deal with our trade. I have seen the bungles that have been made in our trading over the last few months; the bungles in regard to the export of our biggest single export product which is dairy products; and the bungles in regard to meat processing. When I see how the National Government has mismanaged that and I see the problems that have arisen because National thought that it can make some quick savings—cut costs and slash the officials that work hard and conscientiously on this—I think again: “My God can we trust the National Government to bring in an important system like this?”.John Hayes: Yes you can. Yes you can.Hon PHIL GOFF: You know Mr Hayes if we are looking as we are at why we have had this immense unprecedented problem in trading in our most important products look no further than the Government’s decision to abolish the Food Safety Authority. Look no further than its decision to restructure the Ministry for Primary Industries. Look no further Mr Hayes than its decision—a totally botched decision—to take the best people out of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. More than anybody else Mr Hayes knows that some of the best people that we had working in that division went down the road lost their jobs or left because they were disillusioned. The Prime Minister having demolished that ministry with his ill-thought-out and botched restructuring—conducted by Murray McCully—is now saying: “Oh maybe we’d better beef up our trade negotiation sector.”I support this legislation and I support the intent of it. It began under a Labour Government—Debate interrupted.Sitting suspended from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.