Salesa JennyHon JENNY SALESA (Minister of Customs): Thank you Madam Speaker for the opportunity. These are exceptional times and it requires an exceptional response from all of us. On Saturday our Prime Minister the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern announced some of the strictest border measures compared to other countries in the world and this is basically because it is the health of New Zealanders that are at risk and it is actually on all of us to ensure that COVID-19 novel coronavirus is actually kept out.Now the New Zealand Customs Service is the oldest Government department in Aotearoa New Zealand. Customs' purpose is to stop potential dangers hazards and threats from entering New Zealand and in the recent past Madam Speaker that focus has been on illegal drugs. You would know—I've spoken about it in this House previously—in 2019 Customs was able to stop three tonnes of illegal drugs from hitting our streets. Nowadays the focus of the New Zealand Customs Service is on stopping COVID-19 at the border and Customs is working right alongside our healthcare workers. I also would like to add my words to both the Hon Michael Woodhouse as well as the Hon David Clark our Minister of Health in thanking our health workers for the work that they're doing right now but also thanking them in advance for the work that we all would expect them to do in the very near future. Customs' priority at the moment is to ensure that New Zealand Customs Service works right alongside our border force. And that includes public health it also includes aviation security it includes the Ministry for Primary Industries and it also includes some of the police who are now at the border mainly to ensure the new rules that our Prime Minister announced on Saturday—especially the fact that we expect every single person with the exclusion of those who are coming from the Pacific to self-isolate themselves for 14 days. We expect people to actually adhere to that. I want to talk about what's happening at Auckland international airport because that is the largest port. So since the announcement that our Prime Minister made these are some of the things that are happening at Auckland international airport. On the plane for all international planes there is an announcement there that actually tells people about the strict regulations and rules that we have around COVID-19. Second passengers are given a health card and in addition to that of course the Customs form that they have to fill out: the arrival card. Third there are extensive signs right across the airports right across all of our international airports that you cannot miss about the fact that we are really strict at our border. Fourth passengers are now spoken to by a health official and have explained to them the self-isolation that they must actually do. And passengers are also questioned by these health officials. There are in addition announcements at the airport via the public address system emphasising just that New Zealand has a zero-tolerance approach at the moment. Every single passenger as you know because we've closed our e-gates has to go through Customs and they're manually processed in that way and they are asked again about self-isolation they're given a card to call the Healthline and after that they then go to the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and MPI also asks our passengers that come through our international airports and makes them know about self-isolation.After all of this is done what I do want to emphasise is that Customs Immigration New Zealand as well as the police and as well as public health officials they all have powers now so that—and we know from media reports that there are now people that are about to be deported—if people are coming to Aotearoa New Zealand and are not prepared to self-isolate for a period of 14 days they will face the full force of New Zealand law. It includes fines it includes imprisonment and it includes being put on the plane and deported.This is a virus that we all have to fight together. The Director-General of Health earlier on today appealed to everyone Please dob in someone who doesn't adhere to self-isolation rules.""