McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): It gives me a great deal of pleasure to speak on the third reading of the Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Amendment Bill as it passes through the House. I guess it is a little bit of a misnomer calling this bill a 2016 bill as it was first passed in 2006 and as the previous speaker David Shearer said never brought into force.Todd Barclay: Good things take time.IAN McKELVIE: Exactly. Good things do take a lot of time. It is nice to speak on a piece of positive legislation. It adds value to an industry on the move—$1.6 billion to the New Zealand economy and growing at a rate of around 10 percent a year. It is going to be very interesting to follow that growth over the next few years.I think another really interesting point about the wine industry is that if you look back at Marlborough perhaps 30 years ago—I think I have said it before in this House—it looked very much like the walls of this House. Marlborough now is a very different place and it just shows how regions change as the fortunes of the food and beverage industry change in New Zealand. It makes a massive difference to what goes on in those regions.Having listened to the last couple of speakers in the House I feel a little out of it because I was not invited to the wine awards. I do taste the odd wine but I clearly am not quite up to the wine-growing skills of the next speaker on my side of the House or the blackcurrant-growing skills of who I would imagine might be the next speaker on the other side of the House. I guess you could make some sort of fermented beverage out of those blackcurrants.It would be remiss of me—and I know that the next speaker on our side of the House will talk about this at length—to not mention the massive earthquake that has affected much of the northern South Island's wine-growing area particularly the Waipara and Awatere Valley regions—both names that may at some future date become registered as geographical indicators. We can only wish them well and assure them that all in this House will do everything possible to expedite their recovery.The bill originally arose as the previous speaker David Shearer said out of an obligation under the World Trade Organization agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights obliging New Zealand to provide protection for geographical indicators. A geographical indicator indicates that a wine comes from a particular region or a Scotch whisky for example comes from Scotland—and I assume it must be made using products from Scotland—and likewise champagne comes from the Champagne region of France. These are hugely well-known names that have been around for generations and generations.Paul Foster-Bell: What about bourbon?IAN McKELVIE: I do not know anything about that stuff Foz. Although we have a couple of wine growers in the Rangitīkei region I find it unlikely that we will see a geographical indicator registered in the name of Rangitīkei. However in due course we will see I think other sorts of food registered—not under this bill but under a bill that I am sure will come to this House at some stage in the future.If you look around New Zealand now in fact you can—I think on the menu in this House you can actually buy a thing called Rangītkei chicken from time to time. You can also buy Taupō beef. Taupō beef of course came about as a result of the changes to the environmental regulations around Lake Taupō: Taupō beef originated out of that. It was an attempt to prove that they could grow beef economically under the new environmental regime that ruled the verge or the catchment of Lake Taupō. It proved very successful. I think that we will see in the future and there has been some discussion in the course of this bill—as there often is in the Primary Production Committee—around the opportunity for us to introduce a bill in the future that will provide for the opportunity to register geographical indicators around all sorts of other food. I think that is a pretty important point for us to remember.But that is getting away from the object of this particular bill—and I am sure I will get there before you remind me of that. But this bill—as has been noted by the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and certainly by the speaker David Shearer afterwards—is an extremely important piece of legislation from a New Zealand perspective. It will make a big difference going forward to our ability to attract markets and protect the regions of New Zealand and perhaps even those individual towns or place names throughout New Zealand—particularly in the wine industry but also in other forms of spirit production. I guess that applies to blackcurrants.So during the course of the select committee process we did make a couple or three basic changes to it. We talked about opposition procedures. Opposition procedures are really someone's ability to appeal something and so that was one of the significant things we dealt with. We also talked at length about the cultural issues and how we might look to protect cultural values as we move through the potential to register those geographical indicators. Also there was some discussion about the renewal periods—in other words the first renewal after 5 years and subsequent to that those renewals will take place over 10 years.I want to thank the select committee for robust discussion around most things that were not related to this legislation but none the less we had robust discussion on a lot of issues. I also want to thank the industry because during the course of the submissions on this bill we had some very competent submissions and all of an ilk to support it. Thank you. I look forward to this becoming legislation.