Lewis StephSTEPH LEWIS (Labour—Whanganui): Thank you Mr Speaker. I want to thank all of those who have made contributions to tonight's bill—actually most of those who have made contributions to tonight's bill because unfortunately it seems that the agricultural spokesperson for the National Party either didn't have the time to read a three-page bill or just didn't understand what it was we were here to debate tonight. Such a disappointing and disrespectful effort from the National Party spokesperson. It was also disappointing to hear Mark Cameron from the ACT Party that you've changed your tune from calling this a common-sense pragmatic bill to now the ACT Party not supporting it. It's—Mark Cameron: I never said that. What I said was it had merit. STEPH LEWIS: And you have said tonight about—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order! Don't bring me into it. STEPH LEWIS: Sorry. The member said tonight that he was concerned about the additional layers of bureaucracy that this bill would bring in. Well let me tell you I worked at the New Zealand Customs Service and with the other border agencies like the Ministry for Primary Industries and I can tell you that those agencies our airlines and all of the other incoming craft are well versed in how to provide information to passengers efficiently and cost-effectively and they're well-oiled machines. So I say to you Mr Cameron what price do you put on protecting our rural communities protecting our primary industries protecting our environment and protecting our border and economy because I can tell you that providing this information is going to be much cheaper than the $900 million that's already gone into responding to Psa. In the last 12 to 18 months it has been a tough year for everyone including our farmers who face border closures. Even though they kept working right through lockdown they haven't been unaffected. They face disruption due to supply lines that have been delayed due to COVID and this bill will add further protection to them. We owe it to them to provide them with this protection as we've heard tonight from my colleague Jo Luxton. Horticulture New Zealand and our primary industry bodies have asked for this bill. They want this bill. Horticulture New Zealand said they were thrilled when this bill was drawn from the ballot because they can see that it will protect our multibillion-dollar primary industries our food and fibre sectors our farmers and our rural and regional economies. This bill is going to add protection by requiring the provision of approved information to all incoming passengers to New Zealand which will protect those food and fibre industries. It will protect our environment as well and as we've heard tonight it is crucial to have this awareness campaign. That is what makes the biggest difference in terms of protecting our environment. Not everybody coming here to New Zealand grows up understanding the same environmental concerns that we do have or the same issues around having delicate ecosystems and vulnerable natural species. So it's vital to protect those species and our ecosystems that we run this awareness campaign and that we provide that information to everyone coming into New Zealand. I also want to acknowledge the contribution tonight of the Green member Teanau Tuiono. I really thank him for his suggestion to consider how we make this information more accessible to all incoming passengers and I have given some consideration around how we provide this information to passengers in multiple different languages. I really look forward to being able to discuss this further in select committee with my colleagues from the Primary Production Committee and I really encourage members of our farming communities our rural communities the food and fibre sector and those concerned about protecting our border and our environment to submit to the select committee and tell Mr Cameron and Mr David Bennett what they think and why they want this bill. I commend this bill to the House.Bill read a first time. DEPUTY SPEAKER: The question is That the Biosecurity (Information for Incoming Passengers) Amendment Bill be considered by the Primary Production Committee.Motion agreed to.Bill referred to the Primary Production Committee.