Faafoi KrisHon KRIS FAAFOI (Associate Minister of Immigration): There is just one comment that the Hon Dick—Nick Smith sorry; apologies—Nick Smith made at the beginning of his speech that I will agree with and that is: if you have ever had the responsibility of the ministerial discretion for the immigration portfolio you are tasked with some very difficult decisions. This obviously is one of them. That is all I agree with in the former Minister of Immigration's speech in total because I do want to stand in support of my colleague and friend Iain Lees-Galloway for the change and the review in process which we must have as a result of this case to ensure that the information that is in front of those who have ministerial discretion in the immigration sphere is right. I'll tell you one thing and the former Minister will agree with this too: you only make decisions on the information in front of you. I will agree with some of their comments that Iain Lees-Galloway said: if the Opposition want us to be making the foundation of making our ministerial discretions on Google and the front page of the Sunday Star-Times—they would be up in arms. That is exactly what they are saying to us today. There has to be a process and I think that it is the right thing that there is a review of the process that comes together to give us the information that we need to make sure we are making good decisions and informed decisions in and around immigration.I look around this House today and I look at the members of Parliament in this House and I can pretty much guarantee that nearly every one of them has asked me to make a decision of ministerial discretion. Every time they ask their requests go through the same process that the Minister had to deal with for the Sroubek case and Immigration New Zealand assesses those files and finds out information to the best of their ability. It's clear in this case that the process here did not give the Minister the information that he needed to make the decision that he has come to today.I would just hazard caution to the members across the Chamber because their Ministers were in exactly the same position. I would like to reinforce the position and the point that the Deputy Prime Minister made before he departed the Chamber and that is that at least we're taking responsibility for the hard decisions that are put before us. A former immigration Minister on that side of the House delegated nearly all of the very difficult cases in and around immigration with high-level crime to decision makers. The Minister did not even make them himself. So look at how the former Government dealt with these cases washing their hands of the ministerial discretion responsibility. We are actually making the decisions.There's an issue in the decision-making process and that is with the information that is put in front of us. We can't make decisions based on incomplete information and I would like to congratulate the Minister in noticing that point and making sure that there is a review in and around the information processes for those case notes. That process will change for every ministerial discretion request that comes from MPs in this House and anyone else that asks for ministerial discretion outside of this House as well. So the process is going to change for each and every one of you now to make sure we've got complete information. I think that is a good thing.I'd just like to go back to the very beginning. They are hard decisions but we can only make wise and good decisions if the information in front of us is complete. As a result of this decision and this case things are going to be reviewed to ensure those files are complete. That is the right thing to do. The process that is in place at the moment has not changed for over a decade. If we want to make sure that there is integrity in the system as the Minister has said we obviously need to have a review of the system to make sure the information that we have in front of us is complete so we can make solid decisions. I want to congratulate the Minister for doing that because this has obviously been a test case for the process and the information gathering of Immigration New Zealand to make sure those who have ministerial discretion like myself can make good decisions.