Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): The National Opposition is happy to second that speech and we'll support it through to first reading. Before I get to the substantive bill can I just acknowledge the fact that our rural communities certainly are doing it tough at the moment with both drought and some real ongoing challenges with respect to the evolving COVID-19 situation both in terms of market access and in particular actually the ability to harvest crops and one hopes still to manufacture our key products to the world. We certainly expect the position globally to get more difficult rather than less difficult and it is our view that we should look across the House at ways to be able to work together on issues relating to rural New Zealand to advance their cause at this pretty critical time. Any farmer listening to this will know that when the Government puts good ideas in place with respect to responding to rural issues and rural needs the Opposition will be supportive of them. This bill the Organics Products Bill has had a very long gestation. It has been around as a concept for almost 10 years. In fact one of my mentors when I was a much younger man and had hair and was in the kiwifruit industry was Doug Voss who—I'm sure Kiri Allan knows well—is a big organic grower. He does lots of organic kiwifruit and of course he not only was the chair of Zespri but then became the chair of Organics Aotearoa in a kiwifruit context and then Organics in a horticultural products context and for many years has been advocating for a framework that provides a discipline for all those exporters who have organic as part of their provenance to be able to align their quality product to. I'm sure we'll hear in the various speeches around the twists and turns of that journey but I do want to acknowledge our Primary Production Committee chair David Bennett who was the Minister that started this process and of course I acknowledge Damien O'Connor as the Minister that is concluding it. As I said we support it. The organic category in a total context is $650 million and $400 million of that is export product and at this time we need all the export product we can get. As we all know our primary industries will be one of the key drivers ultimately of our ability as a country and a community to get out of the situation that we find ourselves in. So anything that we can do in this House to be able to support the efforts of in this case our organic producers to be able to have a framework we support. There is an issue that we would like to signal as the Opposition which is that the framework looks solid. It clearly has been as I say a function of many years of effort and conversations of stakeholders exporters and successive Governments. But the standards themselves which will be a creature of regulation are very important because they ultimately will be what underpins the provenance of that organic certification in time. So we think as we reflect as a select committee on the framework that this bill enables we should also have line of sight on the proposed regulations with respect to the standards so we can get a sense actually that the sector and the participants within the organic sector have comfort in them see the merit of them and want them to be put in place and endure. So as long as we can see that—and I have every confidence that we will be able to get a sense of that through our conversations as a select committee—I am confident that ultimately all the way through this process the National Party will support this legislation. I'll leave it there. I think I've framed up our position and I'm sure our team will add to that as we do the speeches this afternoon.