Mooney JosephJOSEPH MOONEY (National—Southland): Thank you Mr Chair. Minister I want to ask about your earlier comments that the new application process to get new staff is simple and just around the accredited employer work visa system I would like to ask the Minister whether the Minister has actually spoken to businesses to talk to them about the process involved because there's two things here. One is the process itself and we're dealing in the context of a 50-year shortage of staff in New Zealand. If I look at Queenstown for example there's a limited workforce available; although I acknowledge it's not just a Queenstown issue because I see it here in Wellington and I've seen in Auckland there's also significant workforce shortages.So the first step for employers to become accredited—I know from talking to big businesses who can employ someone to do that for them that that's relatively simple for them. But for smaller employers they don't have the resources to do it because they're literally on the front line trying to keep their businesses running.After accreditation there is a tsunami of compliance. Employers will need to advertise for two weeks to check there are no New Zealand citizens or residents available for the job. If it's not considered that they have adequately done that process Immigration New Zealand will reject it. There's then a long list of requirements to advertising the job requiring a massive amount of detail. After the ad has been up for two weeks the employer can then apply for a job check. They need to set up a structure in the company to bring in the migrant worker and then some staff members have to undergo employment relations education courses.Once an employer gets through those steps they are then given a job token to hire a migrant worker. Talking to businesses I have heard it can take up to two months to get that job token and a job token I understand also has an expiry date—so there's a certain period of time. So I have spoken personally to businesses who say they've got someone available who can do the job they've got a job vacancy that desperately needs to be filled but it can take up to two months for Immigration to process it.My question also is whether the Minister is confident that Immigration New Zealand has adequate staff to process to this structure which I would suggest to the Minister is quite complicated and complex.I note that in my region businesses like restaurants etc. are having to close a couple of days a week regularly because they can't get staff. Some restaurants are actually looking potentially at having to close permanently in the next few months because they can't get staff. Fruit pickers are incredibly concerned they're going to have another season like the one they've just had where for example many cherry orchards had to drop about 40 percent of their crop on the ground. They can't afford to do that again. How is the Minister confident that he's going to get the workforce that they need to harvest these crops?I was talking to other contractors who just can't get the staff they need—for example digger drivers to clear sites to build houses. So this process—I would ask is the Minister truly confident that it's actually a simple process? Has he talked to businesses both big and small about the process and how they're experiencing it and is he confident that Immigration New Zealand has adequate staff available to process the applications received?