Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. It's a great pleasure for me to stand in support of this bill. I too would like to add my congratulations to the member for Rangitīkei Ian McKelvie a fine former chair of the Primary Production Committee for bringing this bill to the House.This is a very real issue that is affecting farmers agribusinesses the length and breadth of the country. It's very welcome—it's very welcome. I'm particularly looking forward to the submissions that will come so we can hopefully maybe flesh it out add further scope to the bill perhaps to ensure that we're actually achieving what we want to achieve which is to deter and to appropriately I guess punish offenders thieves—stock theft.So I do appreciate the contribution from Mr Hughes in terms of looking at what happens at the moment in terms of the criminal justice system and dealing with stock thieves in the court system. But I'd also like to acknowledge Mr McKelvie for maybe encouraging us to look at the scope of this bill to include further offences—such as perhaps theft of beehives which we know is quite a big issue for the mānuka honey industry—and also the issue of forfeiture of property involved in the commissioning of these offences. I think some merit could be had by examining the provisions of the Fisheries Act in particular sections 255 255A and 256 which impose forfeiture of property for those fish thieves—to use the term—which is I guess equivalent to stock thieves or livestock rustling. So I think there is some merit in perhaps looking at those provisions and seeing if an equivalent type of provision could apply in this particular bill. For all intents and purposes the impact is the same and why not forfeit property that is used to commit theft of other people's property and their livestock?I look at some of these examples: we are seeing massive premeditated sophisticated operations. It's not just the odd ewe for a kai; we're looking at in one case in 2016 in the Rangitata-Ashburton district 500 cattle disappearing—500 cattle. That is an amazingly large number of stock to just disappear so in those instances we are looking at quite sophisticated operations and there is a lot of profiteering happening along the supply chain from those that are involved in committing these offences. So I think looking at forfeiture provisions which have been raised by Federated Farmers could also be of benefit for inclusion in this bill.What we're wanting to do with this bill is add that deterrent and make it an aggravating factor for those that are apprehended and put through the criminal justice system and are ultimately sentenced. But also we're wanting to bolster the already brave efforts that are being undertaken by the rural communities themselves and I'd like to acknowledge the CCTV cameras capturing number plates and the like—all of those initiatives that are going on around the country to try and apprehend offenders and deter offenders. Hopefully this bill will be just another step another element that will ultimately deter those offenders so we can protect our livestock and so we can add to the wealth of our rural communities our exporters and Aotearoa in general. Kia ora tātou.