Browning SteffanSTEFFAN BROWNING (Green): Speaking to the primary industries and food safety I will start by saying these Estimates had nothing in there for the organic sector. The food labelled as organic in the US is the fastest-growing label showing a real need by consumers a real demand second only to non-GMO food labelling. Both of those are the fastest-growing food labels in the US one of our primary markets and yet there was nothing in the Budget for them. There was nothing around organics.In terms of food safety and everybody on the Primary Production Committee has heard very very well about Biddy the cheese producer with four cows paying absolutely thousands per year for testing. I am pleased to hear that the new Minister for Food Safety appears to be hearing that call and there may be some reduction because her food is absolutely safe. She had paid $26000 in 6 months for just four cows the produce from four cows and that is nuts. But as a select committee we all agreed we wanted to see some support there. We would like to see a more affordable regime for small producers. We recommended that—in fact it is to the benefit of large producers if we make it easier on the small producers who often come through with innovative ideas and others can benefit from that innovation.Another thing that came up in our discussions was around raw milk. The new raw milk regulations came in on 1 March 2016 and what did we get? An improvement and increased access for consumers who want it? No. Because of that unnecessary stringency and over-the-top methods we have had a reduction from 74 raw milk producers down to 24 although I gather there is a small increase coming up again. That was appalling. That food was not coming through as unsafe and this overprotection for an unsustainable dairy industry by stopping people getting access to what is overall a healthier style of milk was over the top. So that was very very concerning. It was concerning for the Green Party.I am with the other calls around biosecurity. The latest issue with Micoplasma bovis that is coming in and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is saying it thinks it might not be able to trace it or is almost talking failure from the start. The ministry did that with myrtle rust—talked it down made it seem like it would be a failure so if things went wrong it was a predictable situation.I hope that this is treated like foot-and-mouth. This is a useful opportunity to test the resources of MPI which says it is foot-and-mouth ready and nail it—not hold it not manage it but nail it. Get rid of it. The ministry could have done that with Theileria but what did MPI do? It mapped its progress through the country and this is what we are seeing in case after case. Velvetleaf is another one where we are not seeing rapid enough change. We might get there; we might not. In my region Chilean needle grass just carries on spreading no matter there is an element of money going in but never enough.Biosecurity needs to be lifted up. I had a constituent get in touch with me saying What's this mud being imported from Korea?"—another foot-and-mouth country. We have imports that are not even necessary and we could be doing so so much better in terms of biosecurity; we must. Myrtle rust—I said to contain it. They only got around to containing it 9 weeks after I put that to them. The oysters—only after I asked questions did we even get an announcement that that disease was there. And then we finally got some action. It would not have happened if I was not asking questions. The Green Party wants to see much improvement in biosecurity. I suspect that is my time up."