My understanding is that we have found it to be very useful, particularly in the determination of asylum claims. Subject to very strict controls that have been bilaterally agreed upon with our five country conference partners—Canada is one—we can do bilateral sharing of fingerprints and matching of fingerprints. My understanding is that we have had much greater hit rates than we anticipated of people who had already claimed asylum in other countries and in some situations had actually been granted asylum but had decided to move to New Zealand anyway.
On May 1st, 2012. See this statement in context.