Grigg NicolaNICOLA GRIGG (National—Selwyn): I can assure you Mr Speaker it'll likely be two minutes but I'll give it my very best shot. Like my colleagues across the House I too rise in support of the Forests (Legal Harvest Assurance) Amendment Bill at its third reading. And like the previous speaker Anna Lorck I also sit on the Primary Production Committee and have had the privilege of seeing this pass on through the various stages and now hopefully into law today. I think as has been broadly canvased across all sides of the House illegal trade of wood products and timber around the world is a grave concern and I think that anyone in this House where possible and where we can will do what we can to mitigate illegal activity and illegal trade and of course the impact that that has on various communities and societies and of course ecologies around the world. Illegal harvesting—as the member for the Green Party pointed out—is an enormous problem globally and I think is continuing to grow. But on saying that the select committee saw no evidence that illegal harvest was occurring here in New Zealand. So this is the kind of bill—it's a belts and braces bill—that will at least start to implement some form of framework to start to measure. And as we say if you don't measure you can't fix. So this is why we have chosen to support it through all stages.It is a very real problem and as has been rightly pointed out the vast majority of these problems are occurring in the likes of the Amazon basin. We do see issues with deforestation over there that is severely impacting native wildlife flora fauna and of course indigenous communities. We will do what we can to support prevention of illegal harvesting of these sorts of timbers especially through trade mechanisms where we can. So we do encourage strengthening of our international trading reputation and relationships with particular regard to market access and we do think that this bill will achieve that.One of the reasons that we think it is an imperative to take this stance today is to protect our own industry as much as anything from illegal trade and particularly safeguarding the New Zealand reputation as well. So we have put various mechanisms in place to ensure that. And of those 21-odd submissions that we did hear through select committee I think the seven key themes that emerged from all of those submissions were—the majority of the concern was around complexity and cost of compliance—the breadth of the regulatory powers that have been installed under this bill the scope of the legal harvest system looking at sustainability rights of indigenous peoples products and the partial exclusion of indigenous timbers and of course enforcement and compliance. And I think what's key to this is the log trader registration.So ultimately it has passed through select committee with some amendments some of which were quite necessary. And that is why we in the National Party will stand up here today and support it. We do want to ensure that we as a collective pass legislation that will promote good New Zealand trade practices and remove the impact caused by any illegal and illicit trading. And that is why we're happy to support this bill in the House today.