Guy Nathan; Mallard TrevorHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): I think the last week can be best summarised with the four Cs: carpet cows compensation and cost. So let's go through those.In terms of the carpet this is all about Winston Peters gaining $900 million through Budget 2018 to ensure that there's New Zealand carpet in every embassy and high commission around the world. Can't you imagine that Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials will be coming into his office saying Here we are Minister. Can you select a carpet for the embassy in Sweden. It's all New Zealand wool."This is all about Winston Peters' retirement. When he goes up in retirement into the Pacific he'll get one of those flash titles and he'll be able to swan around the Pacific and they'll all say "Oh Mr Peters. Isn't it fantastic what you've done for us?" Yes we admit more needs to be done in the Pacific but surely you would think that cheaper GP visits would be more important to New Zealanders than opening an embassy in Sweden.Then if we move to the next aspect which has been the focus on cows this week we had David Parker on Q+A actually musing on the fact that he wants to see a cow cap. He would really quite like to see one million less cows in New Zealand.Hon Member: Fewer.Hon NATHAN GUY: Fewer cows in New Zealand. When you equate that right through that would cost about $3 billion. Then if you roll that through those big dairying regions in New Zealand that is a massive cost and job losses in regional New Zealand. I want to know where New Zealand First are in this whole debate. We don't hear from them. The so-called provincial champion of the region Shane Jones—what do New Zealand First think about a cow cap? What we haven't heard is the Government acknowledging the great work that New Zealand dairy farmers have already done: excluding livestock from waterways riparian planting nutrient budgets—the list goes on—upgrading their effluent system. That is all lost in this debate. Yes farmers need to do more but so does business and so does urban New Zealand. The most polluted water body is in downtown Auckland. Is that acknowledged? No it isn't.Then we move to compensation and costs—and this is where you get interesting politics to do with Mycoplasma bovis. This is a big issue for the Government and now it's about political management—political management for overseeing fast and fair compensation for farmers. It's been too slow. The banks are circling. The Ministry for Primary Industries won't give a letter of intent to the banks to say that compensation is coming. Farmers are hurting. We've had an example this afternoon in the House from Lawrence Yule whereby one of his farming constituents was saying he couldn't even purchase rugby boots for his family to get to sport on the weekend or buy a washing machine for their family home. This is what is happening because the Government is not ensuring that compensation is happening fast enough.Also we had an example last week where the Minister Damien O'Connor got the cattle industries into his office and said "Don't worry about the Government-industry agreement (GIA) that you've signed up to."—and 16 organisations have which is all to do with a framework for funding biosecurity response and costs and things like that—"That's all out the window. I need you to pay 40 or 50 percent of these costs." That is not fair. That is outside the mandate that Cabinet agreed to in 2013 and industry and farmers and growers are now wondering whether the GIA is actually on toast—whether it's going to be parked up because of political interference. These organisations went back to their farmers and growers before they signed up and said "We need a mandate to sign." So I will be fascinated to see when they get back in the Minister's office in the next week or two whether they get bullied by the Minister to pay even more than what they should. Yes we realise this is a big cost on the Government but it's hugely important—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."