McKelvie Ian; Rurawhe AdrianIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Mr Speaker. I did listen to your warning about using the word you" before and I can assure you that whenever I use the word "you" it will be spelled e-w-e. Now I want to just make the point that I did listen to Mark Patterson speaking earlier on and he did for a while speak quite plausibly about Southland agriculture in the only green part of New Zealand at the moment. However he must be very worried about his place in next year's Parliamentary Cricket Team because he spent the rest of the speech talking about Todd Muller and you can only imagine from that he must be concerned about it. But one other thing I did pick up in the course of that—of course he will be missed in the Parliamentary Cricket Team because he's not bad. One other thing I did pick up on the course of that speech was he referred to the Provincial Growth Fund as an R & D fund and I thought to myself "Well Mr Bishop will be pretty impressed with that." I wonder what R & D has got to do with the Provincial Growth Fund because it doesn't take a lot of R & D to build a roundabout. I want to speak briefly about a few things that are going on in New Zealand at the moment and it's because it just shows how quickly our environment changes in this country. Again agriculture has been in a pretty good space in the last year or two and that has certainly come to an end and it's come to an end because of some events beyond our control some that are partly in our control—and I've always been one that's thought drought is not necessarily out of our control. I think it's something farmers live with and they should be able to manage their way through most of that. But I want to speak about in particular the fishing industry and the rock lobster industry in particular who have been massively affected by the coronavirus outbreak in China. Over 90 percent of their export goes to China and that virtually came to a halt overnight on 25 January. There are about 250 crayfishing boats in New Zealand. That's a significant number of small family businesses that are pretty much tied up to the wharf and not only are they tied up to the wharf but so are those people that work on them and those people that service that industry. So it has made a massive difference to what's going on in the New Zealand rock lobster industry at the moment. In recent days the Minister of Fisheries Stuart Nash announced the result of some consultation he undertook with respect to extending the quota into next year's catch. He came back with the decision to allow them to carry 10 percent of it over. That unfortunately is not enough to help the industry or give the industry any sort of certainty going forward. So that's one of the big challenges that's come out of the coronavirus very quickly and very early in the piece and it has hit that industry very quickly. It has had a massive effect on all of our other primary sector industries of course. I now want to just take a brief time to talk about the racing industry and interestingly at Ōtaki today there was a race meeting. I think there are six or seven races at Ōtaki. That's about as small a number as you ever get and I think there are about seven horses in each race on average. That shows the state of the racing industry in New Zealand at the moment. We had a Minister who said he was going to fix that industry. He brought a bill to the House and that went some way towards fixing it. The second bill he brought to the House has got almost unanimous opposition from the racing industry and the sector and it's got unanimous opposition not because some of the bill isn't necessary and won't do some good but because a lot of what's contained in that bill isn't going to achieve the outcomes that John Messara in his report to the Minister last year pointed out needed to be done. Those submissions are under way at the moment and it's going to be very interesting to see how that legislation evolves because it is critical to that industry. It's an industry that's not huge in New Zealand—about $1.6 billion—but none the less is very important to New Zealand. Also interestingly it has an interesting opportunity to play quite a role in our environmental changes that are needed in rural New Zealand in agriculture in New Zealand to give us some more sustainability because horses of course are a very different kind of business. We are very good at it in New Zealand and we should be able to carry on with it. So there are I think some interesting things going on in our economy at the moment caused by the events that to some extent are beyond our control but some of them we have a great deal of control of. The real issue we've got is how to keep stimulating our small industries and our small family businesses as we go through these challenging times because that's what keeps rural provincial New Zealand going—not massive grants from Governments but assistance to create the right environment for those industries. Thank you Mr Speaker. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call Dr Parmjeet Parmar—five minutes."