Patterson Mark; Tolley AnneMARK PATTERSON (NZ First): I rise on behalf of New Zealand First to also support this bill. I would also like to endorse the comments of Gareth Hughes and his tenacity in bringing this bill through. Of course it's a longstanding effort from the Green Party. Steffan Browning of course and Sue Kedgley I believe well before that have championed this concept. New Zealand First actually has also been a longstanding supporter of this legislation. But it has been around the traps a little bit and the advice I got certainly from our caucus was to keep this as simple as possible. I was soon to find out through the select committee process how wise those words were because as soon as you start adding one exception in it soon spirals out of control. The tin of tomatoes was often used—you know if it's got spice in it is it still a single component or single ingredient? And we realised quite early on that if we we're going to get this through in any sort of form at all we would have to keep it very very simple.But we are doing this for the right reasons. The public are demanding this. The poll that was done said 71 percent of New Zealanders wanted to know where their food originated from. Only 9 percent were against. So this is a widely supported concept that New Zealand First are absolutely delighted to get behind.It does of course amend section 27 of the Fair Trading Act 1986 and it does give the commerce Minister some wide-ranging powers to change the scope of the regulations. As has been mentioned before I think he will have to use those wisely. But it was the correct way to bring this through so we at least got some foundation legislation in place that we could build upon later and build upon that public support and appetite for this particular concept.Of course it incorporates fruit vegetables meat fish and seafood—fresh or frozen. That was a debate that came quite late in the piece actually. Someone said What about frozen?" and we sort of threw it around a little bit and said "Well why not frozen?" It wasn't in there initially in our deliberations so we managed to bring that inside the scope of the bill. Packaged or unpackaged and of course retail outlets only—so cafes or restaurants or whatever are not necessarily brought into this.But what I think will happen is it will become such a popular concept and demanded by consumers that it will become just standard practice that the food components of a meal will be proudly demonstrated to be New Zealand made. And of course as New Zealand First if we stand for anything it is New Zealand made so we're absolutely behind this. Of course there is quite a lot of time to bring this in. We haven't rushed this. I think we've got the 18-month lead time and of course the time beyond that to bring in frozen.I would just like to touch on the bacon and the pork and Gareth Hughes has touched on the irony that a vegetarian has become the great champion of the pork industry. But we did realise that that was an important food group because 60 percent of the pork products—bacon and pork cured pork products—in our supermarkets are imported now and that would not be apparent just through looking along the shelves. As was said earlier 85 percent of those imported products originate from areas or countries jurisdictions that do not have animal welfare regulations that would meet our own and I think we need to acknowledge that actually. We are very tough on our farming community and we expect high standards and we are getting higher standards all the time. On an international comparison we are right up there and I think we often do not acknowledge the quality of the work that our farmers do. So it's good that this bill actually helps to come in behind them so that we can absolutely showcase the good work that our pig and pork industry is doing.Of course as the former Minister Nathan Guy just said earlier one of the real fish-hooks in this was the non-tariff barriers. As a country that exports 90 percent of its food we had to be absolutely mindful that we weren't creating a problem for our exporters with these non-tariff barriers so we had to be absolutely consistent—DEPUTY SPEAKER: I'm sorry to interrupt the member but the time has come for me to leave the Chair.Debate interrupted.The House adjourned at 10 p.m."