Browning SteffanSTEFFAN BROWNING (Green): Kia ora Mr Deputy Speaker. I am delighted that National has indicated it has had a change of heart and will support this bill through to a select committee. This is going to be exceptionally well appreciated by many New Zealanders going on the back of when Labour came on in 2011 and I think of the comment back then by Sue Kedgley who said that there were 9 years of campaigning to get to that point. As I noted in my earlier speech there has been a consistently greater level of desire to have country-of-origin labelling and now to have most parties in the House agreeing to this is fantastic.New Zealanders do have a right to know where their food comes from and to make an informed choice when they buy. They do want the option of choosing locally produced food when they do their weekly shop and we now have this opportunity to make that a reality. At the select committee it sounds like we all are—and I certainly am—looking forward to hearing from submitters their different angles and positions and how far they want us to go with this.I would like to thank the likes of Horticulture New Zealand. It has got 5500 members and it is clearly very very supportive of this bill. Consumer New Zealand a very respected consumer organisation with a very large membership is right behind this bill. New Zealand pork is a classic example of a sector that is currently heavily influenced—60 percent of pork consumed in New Zealand is imported and yet that pork as far as I know is never labelled with the country of origin. So that will make a great move for New Zealand pork. TomatoesNZ is supportive and is part of the campaigning on these sorts of issues and it would also be benefited. The Soil & Health Association of New Zealand has lobbied long—in fact I was with it before I was here lobbying on this issue. The New Zealand Federation of Business and Professional Women the E tū union—they are all supporters so you can see it has got a wide wide level of support. Sue Kedgley in 2007 had a 39000-strong petition.But tonight I do want to once again thank the parties supporting this bill: the Māori Party New Zealand First Labour and National. People will be very very happy.Tim Macindoe: What about the Greens?STEFFAN BROWNING: The Greens are definitely supporting this. They have done so for ever—ha ha! The Greens have supported this for ever.I would like to also put out a thought about the people of Edgecumbe and obviously other areas of New Zealand tonight and over the next few days around flooding. The chair of the Primary Production Committee Ian McKelvie brought that up earlier and how accurate he was in saying that most food produced in New Zealand that will be affected by this or lots of it is on those low lands those flood plains. We do need to consider those producers. Quite often people in the urban areas just do not appreciate how hard it is to produce food and get good returns. This bill thankfully will give New Zealanders the choice to support those New Zealand producers who do so often have to battle the elements.There are a number of issues that have been brought up by colleagues in the House here including labelling and whether it is a food safety issue. I can say that in my view it is in part a food safety issue so I would hate to miss out the word. But as I round up this speech—Hon Members: Ha ha!STEFFAN BROWNING: —just to give a little bit of Roundup to my friends over there. Roundup will come into it with some of the imported food too. So I look forward to the select committee process and I thank everyone again for the level of support that I have heard tonight. I look forward to the select committee process. Thank you.