82346 (2024). Hon Jo Luxton to the Minister for Biosecurity

82346 (2024). Hon Jo Luxton to the Minister for Biosecurity: What, if any, specific steps are being taken to ensure communities like Rāwhiti are supported and compensated for any loss of access to traditional food sources due to marine pests like Caulerpa?

Hon Andrew Hoggard: The focus of the exotic Caulerpa response is to limit further spread and to develop tools to detect and remove it if possible. The extent of those impacts are not known but they are not compensable under the Biosecurity Act 1993.