Bennett David; Dyson RuthHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): This bill today turns around the dairy industry and the nature of reforms that were taken many years ago and in itself as a bill it promotes one of the three things that we were promoting in a bill prior to the election. But the real guts of what you're seeing in this approach that you see from Minister Damien O'Connor here today is the review that's coming down the line to the New Zealand dairy sector and New Zealand agriculture and horticulture in total.Today we have seen that democracy will be attacked on a number of fronts by this Government. Not only is question time now a farce in this House but the Government is deliberately attacking farmers. They are deliberately attacking them through a review that is wider than any context in which the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) was ever expected to cover and this is the nature of what we will see from an oppressive Government that does not want to have people have their say.Question time is not a place in this Parliament any more where parties can have a question and answer session. That has been taken away. That part of democracy has been stripped from New Zealanders in this Government. The next stage will be to strip away the ability for New Zealanders to actually come and submit. We saw this in the Government putting this through in urgency so that no submissions could be made and when it got through the stages of urgency and where the committee stage had been passed then it suddenly came back and put it through in the traditional format.It is an abuse of the parliamentary process that we are seeing by this Government and this is only month four. Over the next three years there will be more oppressive attacks by that Government to take away the rights of New Zealanders to be heard and that is a disgrace for our country.All landowners should be worried about this bill because not only are their rights to be heard already taken away in this Parliament but their right to use their land is now directly under threat because we are going to have a group of politicians from Labour and the Green Party determine what is best for New Zealand's biggest industry. They know better than generations of farmers—than those people that are employed in the industries to make managerial and structural decisions! They know better than all forms of local and regional government that we have in this country to work through those processes!We are now going to be dictated to by a group of politicians that have no respect for New Zealanders. They take away your right to be heard in this House. This Parliament will become a farce under that Government and this bill is a symptom of what they are doing. Mark my words this is not a bill that will come and deliver the dairy industry regime that DIRA was actually supposed to do. This bill is a proxy for an attack on farmers and the right to use land and that is what is going to happen because environmental land use—the things that are said in the press release from the Minister were never in DIRA. They have never been part of DIRA and now this bill under the guise of night will enable the Minister to have a review of all those things and more.Kieran McAnulty: Rubbish.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Well that is what the press release says. Those are the Minister's exact words and that is what all members of the Government have been saying for the last two days. It is not rubbish; it is what is happening. Ministers and members of the Government have confirmed that and the Green members want to take it further. Labour members want to take it into labour relations. They want to take it into contracting of Fonterra. Those are not DIRA responsibilities.This Parliament is not being effective. Not only is it taking away the ability to question at question time but now we have lost the ability to discuss with people that are affected by legislation and thirdly we are seeing legislation and reviews being taken that are much wider than any ambit for which they were ever intended. That is an attack on democracy. That is what this Government is about. They know they can't win on the public opinion so they are playing by a different set of rules and that is a disgrace for this country going forward.Hon RUTH DYSON (Senior Whip—Labour): I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. I just was reflecting on the contribution of the member who's just resumed his seat the Hon David Bennett and I believe that he was bringing into question the integrity of the ruling of the Speaker that was made earlier today and I don't think that's appropriate. I'd like you to ask him to withdraw and apologise.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I'm sorry I don't understand the ruling that you are alleging he's brought into question.Hon RUTH DYSON: So the Speaker was challenged earlier by David Seymour in relation to the Speaker taking away his right to ask supplementary questions—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Oh OK.Hon RUTH DYSON: It was that ruling that David Bennett was referring to.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I think the member is taking a much narrower view of the views that have been expressed by the member. I have asked him to come back to the actual bill—well I have indicated to him that I want him to come back to the bill—but I don't accept that he has made the sort of allegation that would warrant a withdrawal and apology. I call the Hon David Bennett. He still has 4½ minutes left. No? He's gone.