Swarbrick Chlöe; O'Connor GregCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central): E te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. What a glorious day for this House—a glorious day in that it appears as though there is consensus from all parties across the aisle here; obviously from the ACT Party soon who are just giggling behind me about Big Brother or something. But it appears as though at the very least the majority of the parties are agreeing on the side of common sense that it makes sense that we have a standardised universal process for certifying organic standards of products and production in Aotearoa New Zealand.It's a glorious day because as others have also acknowledged this has very much been the bone that the dog that being our co-leader the Hon James Shaw has raised consistently with our Leader of the House in his many queries about the business of the House throughout the past two years. And I note as many others have also said that this bill has been in incubation since at the very least when it was made public in 2018 with a press release from Minister Damien O'Connor.I want to acknowledge not only the Primary Production Committee which obviously did a great job as others have also acknowledged in the process of considering this bill and a substantive amount of submissions. I want to acknowledge the chair Jo Luxton but also those who have helped to advocate for this along the way. Of course I need to acknowledge Organics Aotearoa New Zealand particularly Brendan Hoare and Doug Voss but I also need to acknowledge my Green forebears who've been banging this drum for a very long time. That goes back to Sue Kedgley to Steffan Browning and of course to Gareth Hughes. It was Eugenie Sage who gave the speech at the first reading on this legislation towards the end of last June and I'm sorry to members that I am subbing in for the Minister the Hon James Shaw in our contribution today. Of course as others have also mentioned organics are a huge and growing part of our economy particularly for our exports. Organics make up $650 million but $400 million of that is in export product giving you just a sense of how large that currently is but also the potential for growth. It might perhaps make more sense to consider this legislation as making sure the products do what they say on the tin because we have had for a very long time as others have outlined rather more—I don't want to imply that it's been ad hoc by those who've been making a really big effort inside of the sector but not a universalised and standardised approach to certification. Consistent labelling is really important not only for producers in terms of having actually arguably to a certain extent lesser compliance costs because of that universal type of approach but also for consumers particularly when we're in an age of greenwash and concern about a disconnect from labelling particularly from private companies and as National MP Nicola Grigg raised where it is the case that certain companies can purchase labelling or certification for their products to imply that they're better than others. Again this is the importance of having that backstop and that certainty and that guarantee for consumers but also for producers that everybody is reaching the same standards.As others have also raised there's going to be a lot to pick over in the Minister's Supplementary Order Paper 262—a weighty one that it is. So I'm looking forward to that committee of the whole House stage. I don't want to keep members from their lunch break but I do want to say that this has been a long time coming and we won't stand in the way of any further progress. The Greens are incredibly stoked to be supporting this legislation at second reading.Debate interrupted.DEPUTY SPEAKER: The House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. today.The House adjourned at 12.57 p.m.