Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker and I'm absolutely delighted to speak in favour and in wholehearted support of the United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Legislation Bill. This Government is committed to delivering high quality trade agreements that open up opportunities for New Zealander exporters—and we're doing it; we're doing it through this United Kingdom free-trade agreement (FTA). I want to congratulate Minister O'Connor the Ministry of Manatū Aorere Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and all of the stakeholders that have all pulled together their efforts to pull this agreement off. This is a fantastic agreement for New Zealand for our exporters negotiated in the most difficult of circumstances during a global pandemic mostly over Zoom. This agreement was able to be pulled off and I'm so proud to be Minister O'Connor's under-secretary for Māori trade to really support the world-leading provisions that are contained in this agreement concerning Māori and promoting Māori interests in trade.This is a gold standard agreement and I know the member opposite Mr McClay will always try and—just doom and gloom every time he speaks about what we're doing in trade. But man we are delivering. Let's talk about what we are delivering on trade. We've delivered the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. We've upgraded the China FTA. We've now delivered the UK FTA and the EU FTA and the work continues—unlike the other side when Todd was the Minister. Or he was for a short time. The deep divisions that went through New Zealand society around the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement—we'll all remember those dark days; absolute protests up and down the countryside. That is why our Government—we've reset our trade agenda. We've set a Trade For All agenda to ensure that we can build that social licence to ensure that the benefits of trade go right across New Zealand right across our society. We don't just serve the farming interests; we don't just serve large corporations. Trade for all is about ensuring that trade benefits everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand and this free-trade agreement is the first that we've delivered under our Trade For All agenda and it delivers on all those aspects. I'm very proud of this agreement; I'm proud of the positive impact this will make.We've heard about the market-access benefits. Right from day one there are going to be immediate benefits to our exporters. This is a huge market. We know we're talking about some 60-odd million consumers; $6 billion of existing two-way trade that took place before COVID. This is a huge market where we immediately gain traction get more money in our pockets for selling our good products up into the UK market. And it's more than just our goods; it's about our services as well and that's why we are delivering for our digitech sectors and in the likes of investment and in Government procurement. There are huge opportunities that are now opening up for New Zealand businesses up and down the country as a result of this free-trade agreement.But I want to focus on the great benefits that this agreement delivers for Māori because with this free-trade agreement—again done under our Trade For All agenda—we now have a new approach to how we engage with Māori in respect of our free-trade agreements. The engagement that now takes place is right across our Māori representative groups from the Federation of Māori Authorities from the Iwi Chairs Forum from Te Taumata group from the Ngā Toki Whaka-Rururanga. There is a huge amount of engagement that is taking place and that engagement has helped craft the Māori Trade and Economic Cooperation Chapter which is a world first in this free-trade agreement and I'm very proud of these new territories where we're taking indigenous trade through our free-trade agreement. And that has been continued into the EU agreement. So I want to acknowledge all of the Māori Treaty reference partners that have been engaged with the negotiating teams working—sure not everything was able to be reflected in the final chapters but what we have achieved is a world first and it's all about building a platform for cooperation. I think the fact that in the preamble to the Māori Trade and Economic Chapter we talk about the British—the UK Government—having accepted the history and the importance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi having that in an agreement between the New Zealand and United Kingdom is hugely significant for Māori as the British Crown were the signatories to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.So there is much to celebrate about this free-trade agreement and I'm really looking forward to putting it through all stages in this House so our exporters can immediately benefit from those benefits. And can I once again just acknowledge all of the stakeholder groups in particular the negotiators that we have—high-quality public servants officials—who do a fantastic job for New Zealand. We're only a small nation. We're a small nation of five million in the bottom of the South Pacific. We're dealing with massive big economies when we talk about the UK and the EU. So for us to be able to achieve these agreements get the benefits of our high-quality goods into those markets tariff-free to benefit the pockets of our New Zealand exporters and increase those revenue returns and lift our standard of living is just something that we should all celebrate. With that I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.