Browning Steffan: Border Processing (Arrivals and Departures) Levy Bill — First Reading Second Reading In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBrowning Steffan: Border Processing (Arrivals and Departures) Levy Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee[Sitting date: 21 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:3919. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]STEFFAN BROWNING (Green):Earlier we heard from the Minister for Small Business and Minister of Statistics and he is also the Associate Minister of Immigration and the Associate Minister of Transport so he should know about this stuff. He was very very adamant and strident and was yelling across the Chamber that this was $100 million more for biosecurity. I agree with Richard Prosser that that would be fantastic. On top of the Budget Minister Guy you said there would be about $25 million of new money but the Hon Craig Foss says there will be $100 million of new money. You have gone some way to try to tidy that for him I think because I think he has got it wrong. I would love to hear that there is $100 million on top of what was being spent in the last budgetary year. You can nod or shake or whatever. Is there $100 million more on top of past spending on biosecurity? I do not think there is is there? No answer.Hon Member: Do you want an answer?STEFFAN BROWNING: I hope I will get an answer. Just a simple question: is there $100 million more—as the Hon Craig Foss said and insisted on multiple times—over and above what we have had?The other question I have because any more money for biosecurity is good money is: why is there a drop for business for their importation for their biosecurity system entry levy? It is not big but there is a drop. If I look up the Customs Service at the moment it is $17.63 and it is just going down either to $13.15 per importation or $17.37. It is not a big drop for that part—the $17.37—but it is for the $13.15.The question as well is comparison. So I go to Aussie soon and when I come back I will have a suitcase or whatever. These guys are bringing in how many containers for that? One container 20 containers or whatever—I know there are some other fees for them; they are not big either. So is the Minister going to be able to go and say: “We’ve looked out for you in business we’ve actually dropped your fee and we’ve put it on to the tourists coming in.”? I think—and we are supporting the bill—that is right for the tourists but I do not think there should be any reduction anywhere in terms of levies and biosecurity so I would be very keen to see that tidied up or clarified. But it is there; I have got it from what has gone through in the Order in Council and what the current fees are. I am also interested in as we have heard from others the exemptions. What about the exemptions? Who is going to be exempted—who why when what and what for? “Different classes of persons”—what are they?Leaving that—I hope for some clarification around that—I was very pleased to hear the Minister say that there was going to be some money specifically around import health standards. We have got the imported pork now and 52 percent of pork that is consumed in New Zealand is imported. We know that the pork industry—because the Biosecurity Act is wanting and does not have precaution in a meaningful way in it—lost through multiple courts and spent millions in the process of trying to defend its sector from a slack import health standard. They are the particular questions I would like answered.It is good that there is more money going to the import health standard. It did not seem a hang of a lot but there is some. We really do need answers to why businesses that are importing potentially multiple containers are going to have a levy that is very very similar to an individual with a suitcase. I want that individual with a suitcase to have 100 percent X-rays and it looks like you are doing that and are headed that way. I want to see more dogs coming in. I want to see more money. So are we going to have $100 million of new money on top of old money or is it that $25 million to $30 million - ish of new money only in the past Budget? Thank you.