Brooking RachelRACHEL BROOKING (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'm delighted to take a call on the Biosecurity (Information for Incoming Passengers) Amendment Bill. And like everybody else I think who's spoken so far I congratulate Steph Lewis for getting her bill to this third reading. In her two years of being a parliamentarian she has also had that baby so two major achievements.What this bill does is it amends the Biosecurity Act 1993. That Act is under review and has been for some time. It's very important legislation and it's important because it does two things to protect us here in Aotearoa. It's interested in both biosecurity and pests and that is to protect both our biodiversity and our food production—so our environment and also what we eat. We've heard a number of speakers talk about that already this evening and I'm delighted to say I agree with so much of what Nicola Grigg said earlier—she's looking slightly surprised. I also reflect that just recently on another members' day we were talking about the Hon Jacqui Dean's bill also related to biosecurity. In that set of speeches as well as tonight there were quite a few references to Border Patrol and I did say last time I was speaking on biosecurity that I would have to start watching it. I still have not done that but I do intend to.Food production is very important. Obviously it's for our own food security—we want to be able to eat the food that we grow in New Zealand as well as feeding the extra 40 million or so people that we do. Of course that relates to our export earnings of as Nicola Grigg was just saying $52 billion. So this is very important for our wellbeing and for our economy.But so too is biodiversity and you heard the last speaker talk about the importance of nature. We've had a huge focus in recent years on pest control with Jobs for Nature and Predator Free 2050. Why we're doing that is because—again I keep referring to Nicola Grigg. She was making the good point about our precious ecosystems and our indigenous biodiversity. This provides help with our water catchments—obviously there is some food in that habitat as well for other things that we might eat. There are many things that we probably don't know about yet that our biodiversity can provide for us and of course there is all the knowledge in mātauranga Māori as well.Then we have the other benefits of our beautiful biodiversity and environment including the wellbeing that we get from being outside in it; the international visitors that we have to places like Piopiotahi; and of course we have tourism well and truly back on. So that is why both food production and biodiversity are important and our biosecurity regime is to keep away those pests and biosecurity risks.This bill is focused on people. It's not focused on containers; it's focused on people visiting New Zealand. It's not quite everyone that it applies to; you have to be on a craft. This is defined in the Biosecurity Act and includes both boats and planes. As Tim van de Molen mentioned the craft has to be a large commercial craft—that's defined in the Immigration Act 2009—and means a craft that travels for a commercial purpose or as part of a commercial operation. The bill in addition to that requires at least 20 passengers. I understand that there was some discussion at select committee about that and I commend the select committee on working constructively to make this bill work. But what those definitions mean is that the jets that we might fly to New Zealand—and if we're lucky enough to go overseas—and cruise liners definitely apply. What happens is that the person in charge of the craft must provide information as required by regulation and new section 17AA in clause 4 says what those regulations may do. We've heard from other speakers about how they can include specified content and the form or manner that they can be in including with translations—and I understand there are a number of submissions about accessibility of this information criteria and some other issues in the regulations as well.Like the other speakers I do really want to commend this bill to the House. It's very important that we don't get those nasties like stink bugs and various different ants that we don't want in New Zealand. We remember of course outbreaks around the Queensland fruit fly and many other issues that have been mentioned in various readings of this bill in this House. It's easy to forget if you've got fruit with you particularly if you have small children and you've been an ambitious mother and decided that it'd be good for your children to eat fruit—and of course they don't eat it. You don't want to be landed with that when you arrive in front of the biosecurity officers. So I commend this bill to the House.