McAnulty KieranKIERAN McANULTY (Labour): Thank you very much. I'm very excited to be able to rise and speak to this bill. My colleagues and I here on this side of the House take this issue seriously. I can't help but note that in the list of speakers that have risen to speak on this bill only one has come from the National Party. What message does that send to producers and indeed consumers—not just here domestically but internationally as well—when something as crucial as this is not getting the debate that it deserves?I do note that the only speaker to rise from that side of the House the Hon David Bennett said this: This bill will take some time to work through." What that says to me is this deserves the debate that this issue warrants. This issue deserves to have the time and the scrutiny for people to actually take it seriously and stand here and discuss it.I would specifically like to touch on clause 23 and clause 112. I've just come from an event here in Parliament. The honourable Minister was there as guest speaker and two groups of food producers from the Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay regions the shepherds and grasshoppers a longstanding association of producers who've got together to advocate for their industries. I think they'd be concerned to see that the party that portrays itself as one that advocates for the rural sector has not even bothered to talk about this bill tonight. But we will and we have and we will continue to do so.Hon Andrew Little: Because we've got a good Minister.KIERAN McANULTY: We have a marvellous Minister; a universally acclaimed and admired and respected Minister—mainly by those that don't know him.Clause 23 inserts New Part 3A and Subpart 1 of that brings together and clarifies some very important requirements. It is around the provisions for tracing and recall. We've heard tonight how important our image is to our export sector. How we are perceived as a country is directly linked to the demand that we see particularly overseas. As consumers get more educated and more discerning so it is more important that New Zealand lives up to international standards and lives up to how we portray ourselves overseas as a food producer. Indeed the requirements that this bill is proposing to make in the amendments to the Food Act specifically around tracing and recall give confidence to those consumers and give confidence to our producers and exporters that we can say just like producers in the UK and just like some producers in the United States that if there is an issue we can have the measures in place to be able to recall it quickly and trace back to the source of the problem.Of course it was the false botulism scare that brought rise to this bill. We as a country as an exporting nation cannot afford to make those same mistakes again and I'm pleased that clause 23 does bring in requirements so that producers do have to have provisions in place for adequate tracing and recall. Similarly in the proposed amendments in Part 2—the amendments to the Animal Products Act—clause 112 inserts New Part 6A with a similar subpart and this is as outlined very similar to that in clause 23 in that it brings in requirements for tracing and recall.Of course all food that is produced here and exported needs to be able to be recalled if there is an issue. The fact that this wasn't here before the botulism scare is a concern and I do acknowledge the officials and the previous Minister—and of course our Minister here—for putting work into this so that we can put confidence back into our export sector and food producing sector. As this bill clearly outlines in the purpose it's not just animal products and it's not just food either; it's all products of the primary industries that we export as a nation so that we can live up to our clean green pure New Zealand brand."