12. Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership—Progress and Public SubmissionsPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai) to the Minister for Trade and Export GrowthComprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership—Progress and Public Submissions12. PAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai) to the Minister for Trade and Export Growth: What progress has the Government made on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership?Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister for Trade and Export Growth): Recently in Santiago the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) was signed on behalf of the Crown. This was a historic moment for New Zealand securing greatly improved market access with Japan Canada and Mexico—the 3rd 10th and 12th largest economies in the world.Hon Simon Bridges: Iron your shirt before you come down David.Hon DAVID PARKER: With the rules-based trading system increasingly under threat the CPTPP has increasing importance to the more than 600000 New Zealanders whose jobs depend on trade. This coalition Government has continued to take more of the rough edges off CPTPP agreeing bilaterally with Australia Peru Brunei Vietnam and Malaysia not to use investor-State dispute settlement provisions.SPEAKER: OK. Before we have the next supplementary I'm going to ask the Leader of the Opposition to cease commenting on my ironing skills.Paul Eagle: How will the public get to have their say on the agreement? [Interruption]SPEAKER: Sorry there was sort of like one each then so we'll just leave it. But Judith Collins and—I'm not sure who it was who was going the other way David Parker—are not to interject during supplementary questions.Hon DAVID PARKER: Last week the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee announced a two-week period for public submissions on the committee examination of CPTPP. I've since written to the committee asking for the time frame for submissions to be extended. The committee has since agreed to extend public submissions by three weeks to 18 April—a total of five weeks. I expect public hearings to be held. In my view it's important that the public are allowed to have their say.Paul Eagle: What is the expected time frame for the Government to ratify the CPTPP?Hon DAVID PARKER: Should the Government decide to ratify CPTPP we expect the enabling legislation to come to the House in June with the expectation of completing passage of the bill or bills by the end of 2018. Again we expect the select committee to call for public submissions and to provide adequate opportunity for public submission and consideration. While we may not agree with every opinion expressed on the agreement this coalition Government is willing to listen.Hon Todd McClay: Can the Minister confirm that the side letter he signed with Australia has the same effect as the side letter signed by the last Government with Australia in the original Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and that the four new side letters with Peru Vietnam Malaysia and Brunei represent less than half of 1 percent of all foreign direct investment in New Zealand?Hon DAVID PARKER: I can confirm that the form of agreement is the same as it was with Australia as I've previously done in this House. It is true though that of the 10 other countries that are in CPTPP we now have side letters with half of them.Hon Todd McClay: Supplementary. So in claiming—SPEAKER: No. Order! Order! The National Party has no further supplementaries.Hon Todd McClay: You gave two back to us.SPEAKER: I am advised that the National Party has—if the shadow Leader of the House is willing we will go back into account and take it off tomorrow if in fact I'm wrong.Hon Gerry Brownlee: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I'd never have the temerity to refer to you as being wrong. But if by a chance the count doesn't add up then we'll take the extra one tomorrow. SPEAKER: Well whichever way it breaks we'll work it out for tomorrow—and maybe the Greens could help you.Hon Todd McClay: In claiming that he has fixed TPP does he remember saying to the House that market access between the two agreements remains the same that the labour provisions chapters are the same that the US is still mentioned all the way through the text and that investor-State dispute settlement provisions are still there that the four additional—SPEAKER: Order! Question please.Hon Todd McClay: —side letters he signed are responsible for just half of 1 percent of foreign direct investment in New Zealand? My question is: after all his hard work does he think he needs a lie down?Hon DAVID PARKER: Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: No. No. The member will just resume his seat.Hon DAVID PARKER: Well—SPEAKER: No. There's a pile of irony in that which was just not acceptable. The member will resume his seat.Hon DAVID PARKER: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I'm left in the position that left on record are the ridiculous assertions that this is the same agreement as the prior one.SPEAKER: No. I have ruled the question out. All right?Hon Iain Lees-Galloway: I seek leave for Mr Parker to be able to answer the question despite its egregious breaches of the Standing Orders.SPEAKER: No. If Mr Parker seeks leave he can—Hon DAVID PARKER: I so seek leave.SPEAKER: Is there any objection to David Parker being able to answer the out of order question? There is.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Can I ask the Minister for Trade and Export Growth as to whether this is a fact: that he inherited a Lada and turned it into a Rolls-Royce.SPEAKER: No.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Point of order.SPEAKER: No. Well I've ruled it out. I hope the—right. Is there any—the National Party's not having any further?