Anderson MilesMILES ANDERSON (National—Waitaki): I'm very happy to rise in support of this bill the Regulatory Systems (Primary Industries) Amendment Bill. This bill covers a lot of territory as we've already ascertained in the House across 19 different Acts with around 250 minor or technical changes with the purpose of improving the quality of the regulation.Throughout the 2023 campaign and into Government our message has been clear: needless red tape and bureaucracy holds New Zealand's primary industries back and any changes that can be made to stop duplication and streamline processes is a top priority for this Government so the premise of this bill is something that I wholeheartedly support.This bill will end up before the Primary Production Committee which is the best select committee in the Parliament and will be able to be looked over by myself and my friend Mark Cameron in ACT Suze Redmayne from National Catherine Wedd from National the Hon Jo Luxton and Cushla from Labour and Steve Abel from across the way there.Hon Member: He's got one job.MILES ANDERSON: Yes; not wrong. So many of the suggested amendments are simply common sense and for example people currently wanting to send goods overseas for personal use as the Minister said have to be registered exporters which is just simply nonsense. So by making a small amendment we can free up an entire area to be more cost effective and easy to navigate. The bill also addresses a number of drafting errors so it makes sense to attend to these errors at the same time.Another section of changes empowers our authorities to have the correct tools within legislation to perform their duties. Currently the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) as we have heard from Minister Hoggard can seize risk goods but cannot seize evidence of the offending something that you would think is common sense. This creates both evidential and biosecurity risks.Closer to home drafting errors in the National Animal Identification and Tracing Act have unintentionally applied to wild animals on a farmer's property. It was never meant to but due to the punctuation error the bill could be read to include wild cattle. In New Zealand there is an issue with feral cattle in some places. Several years ago when I was the meat and wool chair of Federated Farmers I had a number of landowners contact me about this specific issue. One case I remember in particular was a couple who had bought a block of land bordered by forest. From this forestry block feral cattle had moved onto their land. Due to the anomaly in the law they were deemed to be responsible for these animals and were also in breach of the law because the animals were not National Animal Identification and Tracing tagged. This is one example of the 250 changes that this omnibus spill seeks to address.So in summary this bill is going to reduce regulatory burden and also each amendment is going to be assessed to ensure that they are consistent with the Government's policies. This bill will allow for small fixes to be made in a timely and cost-effective way. This will deliver flow-on benefits to businesses in our primary industries and the wider economy. The changes are small uncontentious and are anticipated by industry. The fact that this one bill contains as many changes as it does highlights the importance of this House looking back at regulation and making sensible amendments further working to make it more functional to provide a more efficient environment and overall remove red tape and unnecessary regulations. I commend this bill to the House.