Brooking RachelRACHEL BROOKING (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker for the opportunity to speak on the Increased Penalties for Breach of Biosecurity Bill. I just heard a heckle which was Which fruit is the riskiest?"Hon Member: Tell us. Tell us.RACHEL BROOKING: I'm not going to be able to tell the members what fruit is the riskiest. This is not the heckle I was expecting today.This is the first opportunity I've had since today to speak in the House other than asking a question and so I do wish to of course acknowledge Jacinda Ardern leaving us here at Parliament and her very wise words in her valedictory speech which of course interrupted this bill. Good to hear her talking about climate change and environmental issues in that speech. I was able to speak on the first reading of this bill and in that first reading the Hon Jacqui Dean who of course is the member for the beautiful Waitaki spoke—of course it being her bill—and I also spoke. And Joseph Mooney will also know as will Michael Woodhouse who I see over there that the Otago Daily Times (ODT) pays close interest to the speeches that Southerners make. In the first reading there was some discussion of how we look at the column that appears on a Saturday morning but a number of our speeches referred to this. Then I want to let the House know that Jacqui Dean and I won the bipartisanship award from the ODT on 24 December last year because of course at that stage everybody was supporting the bill. As the other speakers have said we all know that our primary production industry is incredibly important to New Zealand—forecast for the year ending in June is $55 billion expected to be traded in exports in food and fibre and that is obviously a huge amount and this is important to the whole country. We also know that biosecurity risks can do a lot of damage to that and we've seen that in the past. Of course we are an island nation so we can be a fair bit more feisty on biosecurity than other places can be.In the first reading debate as well there was a lot of talk of the Border Patrol TV programme; we heard mention of that just before by Angela Roberts. I did say in the first reading speech though that I was intrigued and I would watch it. I still haven't done that but will aim to do that. This bill then is doing this good thing about biosecurity caring not only about that $55 billion but also as the member said before about New Zealand's ecology as well. Of course the Hon Jacqui Dean has been the spokesperson for conservation for National for some time and I know that's something she cares deeply about. But unfortunately when it went to the Primary Production Committee it seems that rather than just the focus on biosecurity which we've had some discussion about the bill does of course amend the Immigration Act. The select committee in its report does then discuss how the Immigration Act and the Biosecurity Act both at work together at the border. Of course the immigration offences are important and detailed in immigration laws and that's not something that I can pretend to be an expert in; I do tend to be more on the biosecurity side of things. But the select committee said "Well what's going to happen here is that those immigration officials those border officials they might have to say no to somebody because of a biosecurity breach. And those immigration officers they are not necessarily trained in biosecurity and so those provisions don't link nicely together." That's covered on page 3 of the report.Of course also there was mention of the increase in the infringement fee. This is very much within the purview of the Biosecurity Act. You'll see that the bill is very short. There are but nine clauses and clauses 3 and 4 relate to the Biosecurity Act. Clause 4 was going to replace $1000 with $2000. And then in Part 3 there are amendments to the Biosecurity (Infringement Offences) Regulations and that's clauses 8 and 9. The other clauses—5 6 and 7—relate to the Immigration Act. So at clause 9 that regulation was going to be amended from $400 to $1000—and my time is up."