Tinetti JanJAN TINETTI (Labour): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. I'm delighted to have the opportunity to stand here today and join in this debate to talk about the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and it's been very interesting listening to an Opposition that is trying to minimise the work that has happened in this agreement. This Government has actually progressed this agreement and made it into the strong agreement that it is now. In that I'd like to say congratulations to the Hon David Parker and the Rt Hon Winston Peters on the work that they have done to bring it to the stage that it's in. We've heard here this afternoon about the transparency that has been involved recently around the early release of the text and I'm delighted about that. Just in the last two weeks I've had people asking prior to the release last week When's it coming out?" but since then people have been saying "Well done. Well done on actually getting this out." Well done to Mr Parker for getting this text to release to this point. So the transparency goes along with this country not compromising our principles and this is where this agreement is making the biggest difference. This is where we have not compromised on our principles and that is where the CPTPP is significantly different from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA). It can't be any surprise to the Opposition that these differences are in there. They're minimising them but it can't be a surprise to them because the two parties that talked about this actually campaigned on these. They talked about protecting Pharmac. They talked about something that is really important to this country: upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi. That is so important. We managed to get that.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Tēnā tātou e Te Whare. The House is resumed. Before the dinner break we were debating Government motion No. 1. Jan Tinetti had the call and she has two minutes and 51 seconds remaining if she wishes to do so.JAN TINETTI: Thank you.Hon Ruth Dyson: I hope she does.JAN TINETTI: Absolutely. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Right when the dinner break started I was talking about the transparency and the early release of the text of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (CPTPPA) how wonderful that has been and the people that have contacted me to say that they're very pleased to have read that text. What I have been encouraging those people to do though is to also go and read the national interest analysis of the agreement that has been released alongside this because I think that that document is another way that we're showing the openness and the honesty around the agreement. People have really appreciated the fact that they have been pointed in that direction.That particular document is a document that reflects the important changes to how the agreement affects New Zealand's intellectual property law Pharmac and whether overseas investors can make claims against the Government. People that have talked to me about that and about that document after I've pointed them in that direction have said that that has been very helpful. So I would encourage anyone to go and have a look at that. That document was written by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the analysis concludes that it would be in New Zealand's interests to enter the CPTPPA. As I said it also outlines the differences in this agreement from the original agreement that we can see.Now the part of the agreement in my final part here that I would like to talk about is the most important part in the changes that I see from the TPPA to the CPTTPA and that's the changes in the house-buying ban. This Government thinks that it's the birthright of New Zealanders to own our houses as well as our farms so it is something that New Zealanders aspire to. It is something that for many New Zealanders has become unattainable to them. So this was one area that is a major change. It was something that we were told may not be able to happen. We were told we would possibly have to look at renegotiating our trade agreements and yet that was proven not to be the case. So I was very happy around that. I'm very happy to talk on this here tonight. Thank you."