Hon GERRY BROWNLEE (National): Can I just start by saying that, notwithstanding the somewhat ill-informed speech prepared by, I suspect, Labour Party researchers and delivered by the last speaker on the first reading, Vanushi Walters—albeit tinged with a degree of unnecessary nastiness, the National Party will continue to support this bill because, foremost in our minds is the suffering of the Ukraine people. The fact, too, that this was an unprovoked attack. About the various comments that were made by the speaker I just referred to, about the long history that has existed on that Ukraine-Russia border, there can be no justification at all for the whole-scale devastation that Vladimir Putin has decided to unleash on the Ukrainian people. It is despicable. And in that regard, can I say, the Minister's comment that it's important to take the people of New Zealand along if there is to be a more general sanctions bill before the House at some point very soon—I would agree with that, but we shouldn't be under any illusion about the effect that this conflict in the Ukraine is going to have on the New Zealand economy, regardless of any sanction that we may or may not participate in. 