ERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am pleased to take this first call for the National Party in the second reading of this bill. I had hoped that today the Minister would provide more clear evidence and reasons for the necessity of this bill. Unfortunately, neither his legislative statement nor his speech today provided that, apart from some updated numbers, which is in itself interesting because when we heard the arguments for this bill back in 2020, the underlying need for this bill was the amount of people in this country who are here on temporary visas and who required their visas to be extended or to have their conditions varied. The argument was that there are so many of them in so many different categories, and he broke all those numbers down, and he went even further to say that immigration officials were unable to work at their place of work and so were forced to work from home, but often they couldn't do that because they weren't able to take their paperwork home with them. So there were a lot of Immigration New Zealand workers sitting at home unable to work. That was the basis for this bill in the first place.