Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Great speech, indeed, said Deborah Russell. I think I heard Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki say last year, in criticising the National Party's position on this, that we thought it was a good idea last year; why do we not think it's a good idea now? Well, the answer is quite straightforward: the conditions that warranted the emergency powers—and they were emergency powers; significant transfer of power to the Minister—worked for the conditions that existed then. As a former Minister of Immigration, I've got a reasonable amount of knowledge about those powers and the instructions—the mountain of instructions, that the Minister gives to Immigration New Zealand in order to be able to give effect to the Immigration Act 2009. It cannot be said that those conditions still exist. Now, on balance, the National Party will support this bill at first reading and send it to select committee—we'll talk about the process when the motion for the report back is moved—but we did have over a thousand Immigration New Zealand staff unable to process in the manner in which they normally would; that's not the case now, and we have to acknowledge that.