Citizenship and Immigration committee  Obviously there is no list of people, and if there were, it would be anonymous.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  New Zealand is one of 17 countries that takes an annual quota of refugees per year. We accept about 750 people each year under a quota. I think the minister was reflecting that New Zealand does seek to meet its international obligations very largely through the quota, which is fo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your question. Our numbers are really too low for us to have needed to move in that direction, so we do not classify countries. Our immigration act is relatively new; it's 2009. That does give us the power to designate safe third countries, which is obviously a sep

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are not. We have had claims in the past from people from generally central and eastern Europe, but at very low levels. The country at present we are experiencing a spike from is Fiji, which obviously is much closer in our vicinity, only three or four hours away by air. So the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's fine. Okay.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Indeed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Indeed. Bonjour.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First, we're very honoured to be given the opportunity to present to the standing committee. You're correct that we have a piece of legislation ourselves that is shortly to have its first reading. It was tabled on Monday, the day before yesterday, and will have its first reading