Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): Thank you Madam Speaker. I wasn't intending to take a call on this bill but I've been listening to the debate and I felt compelled. I wanted to address some of the issues that the Minister raised. It struck me listening to him when he was addressing the issues that Paul Goldsmith had raised that we're emerging from COVID-19 and this Government is fearful of what's going to happen. They're not confident. They're not outward-looking. They're driven by fear.I found it extraordinary that we had our Minister of Justice standing up and running the conspiracy theory about the Russians when we should be as a nation right now outward-looking. We should be confident. He's completely conflicted when on the one hand he says that this country was built on foreign investment and foreign capital and on the other hand he's putting a regime in place that's going to make it even tougher for us at a time when actually we need to be looking for good foreign investment good foreign capital. It's never been more important in our country's history than in the coming months and years. To rebuild an economy that has—and the Rt Hon David Carter highlighted it in his opening comments—37000 people unemployed. There are 37000 people looking now—in one month 37000 people. That's 37000 people on top of all the others that are looking to a Government with confidence with vision and with a plan to actually attract good foreign capital.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): But actually we're looking for debate on the bill before the committee.Hon MARK MITCHELL: Yeah thank you Madam Chairperson. So my question to the Minister is simply this: could he please stand in this House and tell us why the current regime that we have in place the Overseas Investment Office which is full of lawyers and specialists that analyse each investment to make sure that it meets a very high threshold that there's going to be tangible benefits for us as a nation when this foreign investment comes into the country—can he please tell me why he's bringing legislation to this House that is now going to put this decision making in the hands of one Minister who I would challenge and say hasn't got that same background skill or ability to make those decisions? So one Minister will now be making those decisions. Please stand and point to us where they've identified the real risk of strategic assets being acquired assets being stripped and intellectual property disappearing overseas and why all of a sudden this is going to happen when we've had a very good robust regime in place that has been delivering for this country for decades.I see we have the Minister for Land Information in the House. She's been running this system for the last two years. I'd like to hear her stand up and take a call and tell us why it's not working. Tell us why under urgency we have to have a piece of legislation like this in the House to address what appears to be a system that's not working. If it's not working she should have been in here a year ago taking a call telling us that it's not working. So I'd like to hear a comment from her.But to the Minister: please stand and lay some detail out for us in terms of where the Government has identified the risk why we need to have this legislation being passed under urgency and why we're putting enormous power into the hands of one Government. It's completely consistent with a Government that number one is driven by fear and number two is driven by grabbing more and more control of the country more and more control over the hotelier in Greymouth that actually needs a bit of foreign investment to help them stay alive and help them keep employing people and keep their business buoyant. Please Minister take a call and lay out for us in detail what the real threat is and why you're so fearful. Why are you fearful of the Russians? If you take a call and answer those questions then we might understand why you feel driven to have this legislation coming through this House under urgency. Thank you Madam Chairperson.Hon Andrew Little: Madam Chair?CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): The honourable Andrew Bayly. I'm sorry. Andrew Little.