Mark Ron: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMark Ron: General Debate[Sitting date: 02 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8481. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): I do note from the Trans Tasman that the previous speaker Jacqui Dean got a rating of two out of 10.Rt Hon Winston Peters: What? How much?RON MARK: Two out of 10—two out of 10. But on to serious matters here. Today New Zealand First asked a hapless Minister of Immigration questions about the rort being visited on this nation through lax legislation and an indifference of this National Government which is blinded by its desire to simply make money regardless of increasing and overwhelming evidence that its new darling child namely the export education sector has become a people trafficker’s paradise and an extortionist’s dream characterised by fraud corruption and exploitation of the vulnerable and young.New Zealand First has submitted written questions and Official Information Act requests and the Rt Hon Winston Peters has raised this matter on numerous occasions—we know a couple of things about the export education sector. Young people are coming here from developed countries all over the world with the sincere objective of getting a high-quality education paying their full way and leaving and going home. We also know there are those who are coming here from undeveloped nations hell-bent on using it as a pathway to residency and citizenship and then to enjoy the tax benefits and the subsidies of the New Zealand taxpayer. We also know that in January Independent Tertiary Institutions admitted that incentives existed to work and gain residency in the export education sector. We know much about the Government’s policy of encouraging these people to come here.I want to put it to you that New Zealand First believes the New Zealand Government has a duty of care towards these foreign students who come here. We have a pastoral responsibility to ensure that they are not exploited they are not extorted they are not manipulated and they are certainly not lost in the labour force as slave labour. But does this Government care about that? Not one bit. We warned in January—in fact Winston Peters our leader warned back in January 2015 that student visas were being sold as a back door to New Zealand residency. On 19 November Pattrick Smellie—of course a card-carrying member of New Zealand First as we all know—wrote saying: “Immigration officials are warning that New Zealand’s reputation is at risk. There is widespread evidence of fraud and corruption of exploitation in the workplace.”Business leaders have been saying and are now on the record as saying that deflation is being credited because of cheap foreign labour being imported through the student education scheme. We know that Lincoln Tan wrote this month saying that the Immigration Advisers Authority and Munish Sekhri from Licensed Immigration Advisers for New Zealand both raised concerns about this matter. But what do we hear from the Minister of Immigration today? This Minister says: “Oh if they have got problems they should go to the authorities.” Is he dreaming? Is he on “Planet National”? Does he not know that these foreign students—Alastair Scott: Why don’t you just send them back to the countries where they came from? Go back to where you came from. Like you do with all the immigrants—send them home.RON MARK: —do not know their rights do not know who the authorities are and have had their passports taken by unscrupulous employers? And the member for Wairarapa had better button it because he knows that there is a petrol station in Masterton right now that has been accused of doing this. But he would not know; he does not live there—he does not live there. He has not got a clue. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! I am sorry to interrupt the member but that level of barracking from that member Alastair Scott is completely unacceptable. If he interrupts again I will be asking him to leave the Chamber for the remainder of the general debate.RON MARK: Thank you Mr Speaker. The member for Wairarapa does not know; he does not live there. People say that consistently—that is why they come into my office now.But we know that this is a serious matter. New Zealand’s reputation as a quality provider and as a good nation of good people is at risk because the Minister of Immigration today refuses to accept that we are through our international export education sector allowing extortion allowing manipulation and allowing people to be treated like slave labour. And what did he say to that mother whose daughter lost her job? Well he actually did not give a toss and the whole of the National Party laughed. Look it up it is going to be on video on Facebook: the National Party laughing at the plight of that woman Ludwina Maybin—at her daughter. Watch the video. The National Party members did not give a toss and do not care. That is the mark of this Government. That will be the mark of its reputation. Unfortunately it will be the mark of New Zealand’s reputation unless they sort it out and sort it out they must.