Sio Hon Aupito WilliamHon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO (Minister for Pacific Peoples): I'm happy to make a short contribution to this bill. I think the Deputy Prime Minister the Rt Hon Winston Peters has outlined eloquently the purpose of this particular bill. All I'd want to add though is I was privileged a couple of months back as part of the Prime Minister's delegation to attend the United Nations General Assembly and being that was my first time I took a lot of videos of what was happening. I did ask my companion just to video when one of the world leaders went past and we were all forced to stop. We got to the 14th vehicle in his motorcade and his hand was tired from videoing it but there were still several more cars to come. When I made inquiries about you know what determines how many security officers and motorcades I suppose the officials in charge of this determine the profiles of each individual world leader. For our leader Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern we had a couple of security people who accompanied her and she preferred to walk rather than travel in the car which probably caused a lot of alarm and anxiousness with the security guys. But what I witnessed there at the UN General Assembly was that those leaders would not turn up to the United Nations if the security was not guaranteed for them. Therefore yes whilst people might feel a little bit nervous about this we need to pass this legislation in order to provide security and support for a safe and secure APEC meeting when the period occurs.We as a nation will host APEC in 2021 but our hosting activities will begin from December 2020 until November 2021 with meetings involving senior officials and Ministers expected to be in the vicinity of 20000 people over that period. The leaders' week will take place from 8 November to 14 November in 2021 and will involve about 20 world leaders and Ministers' officials business people youth representatives and media people. I think the Deputy Prime Minister underscored the fact that this is temporary legislation. It's for the purposes of providing a secure and safe APEC conference during that period and the legislation will expire at the end of that.There are benefits and I think—for one—as a small country we are very much dependent on working at a multilateral level and these institutions allow us to play a role that often is not appreciated by our general public in New Zealand. But we have a role to play in the international arena. We have a role to play in the manner that we conduct ourselves. We are regarded as one of the nations that are generally free of corruption. That is something to be valued. That is something to uphold.This is also the nation where Māori language and culture is—the only nation you'd find that. That tikanga—or that kaupapa as my Māori Ministers often say—is fundamental to the way that we conduct ourselves and host other people. So I think it is a significant organisation. We will get the chance to lead and chair many of these meetings; therefore we have the opportunity to showcase who we are as a people who we are as a nation and how we prefer to conduct our business not only throughout New Zealand around the Pacific region but throughout the world.So I'm really just saying and encouraging all of our members in the House that I think we do have a responsibility in order to fulfil our obligations as a host. We revert to—what is the Māori terminology—manaakitanga to be able to host our people coming through: 21 leaders world leaders.When we hosted in 1999 for the first time where the President of China visited I think that contributed to us having the first free-trade agreement with China. That's now also being renewed. So I think this is important. I underscore what the Deputy Prime Minister said: this is temporary legislation; it will expire at the end of the APEC meeting. Thank you.