Sage EugenieEUGENIE SAGE (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Chair. This will be a relatively short call on the New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority Amendment Bill which the Green Party is supporting. We would also like the previous speaker Richard Prosser welcome a bit more explanation from the Minister for Primary Industries about why this Supplementary Order Paper 247 is arising at this stage—whether it was the result of a genuine misunderstanding in the Primary Production Committee—but it looks reasonable at first glance.The Green Party is supporting this bill because like many others we recognise the huge potential for increasing the value of our horticultural crops by doing more around marketing. I was fortunate enough to be on the Speaker's delegation to China recently and in Yunnan we visited a Dutch horticulturalist company that had huge glasshouses growing millions of orchids each year for on-growing both in China and Europe and in New Zealand. The Dutch director of this company happened to be in Kunming at the time and he said in his presentation that his dream for his company was to do a Zespri" and develop a brand that was as appreciated by consumers around the world as Zespri. Zespri is obviously recognised here as being a major success story because of that decision back in 1997 by New Zealand growers to unite the export and marketing of kiwifruit under one brand and develop the success of that brand through a lot of innovation a lot of research and a lot of development but with a single-desk marketing approach. That is why this bill is a good one because it is a major step to making available for our fruit and vegetable sector and for more groups within that sector the ability to do much more sophisticated marketing strategies to ensure that through the licensing system that the Horticulture Export Authority manages and oversees there are controls and standards around produce that is exported that work to actually protect the reputation of our horticultural products overseas. We have seen a major growth in horticultural produce and its value in the export sector in the last few years. It is surprising given the Government's Business Growth Agenda and the goal of doubling the value of primary sector exports that the Government has not moved faster with this bill—that it has taken 5 years and for the last 5 years the Horticulture Export Authority has had annual reports where it has asked about the progress on the bill and called for it to be passed. It is surprising that the Government has not given it a greater priority but it is a useful step with this multi-tiered marketing system that it will implement with the increase in the offence provisions if you do not export under a licence and with the greater sharing of information between the authority and the Ministry of Primary Industries and Customs. I will not hold up the progress of the bill any longer—the Green Party supports the bill.The question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Paper 247 in the name of the Hon Nathan Guy be agreed to.Amendments agreed to.Part 1 as amended agreed to.Part 2 agreed to.Schedule 1 agreed to.Schedule 2 agreed to.Clause 1 agreed to.Clause 2 agreed to.Clause 3 agreed to.House resumed.The Chairperson reported the New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority Amendment Bill with amendment and no progress on the Children Young Persons and their Families (Advocacy Workforce and Age Settings) Amendment Bill.Report adopted.The House adjourned at 9.56 p.m."