Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you Mr Chair. I just want to make some comments in relation to the dialogue which is taking place around this review and just ask some further questions in relation to what the Minister of Health who has just sat down has said in relation to the compassionate approach and the desire to focus on quality supply issues. I would like to ask the Minister: if the purpose of the section is to ensure that there is a focus on quality of products and supply and I guess the price of products in the market why is this review not focused around those terms? The terms of this review seem to be on whether these amendments are necessary or desirable. It doesn't say anything about whether there has become enough supply or whether there have become enough quality affordable products in the market to ensure that that exception is no longer required.Basically what it says here is just whether any amendments to those provisions are necessary or desirable." So I'd like to ask the Minister why the language is not clear in this section—saying "Let's focus on reviewing these sections until there is enough supply until there is enough quality affordable products."—and why don't we do that on a two-year rolling basis to ensure that that actually takes place? If the purpose of this legislation is to drive the market towards producing quality affordable medicinal cannabis products just having one review in two years' time is not going to cut it—just having the one review which is not even going to be at the point in time when as Dr Shane Reti has very clearly outlined to the committee the market has been able to establish manufacturers and distributors has had time to be able to put in place regimes where the doctors and the pharmaceutical industry are equipped to be able to distribute these products. Two years is not going to be enough time let alone for the regulations to be put in place and debated and consulted on and discussed.So my question to the Minister is whether he would accept I guess a Supplementary Order Paper which would look at amending it to something along the lines of "Every two years this must be reviewed." and I would also suggest that the review period should be reduced quite substantially from taking a whole year. I'd like to know why the Minister believes that a review should take a whole year in relation to whether these two sections should be in place and why the review would take that much time. I understand it's a complex and important issue but I very much question the need for that review to take a whole year for it to then come back to the Minister and then to be reported to the House.So those questions I think really do go to the crux of what is actually intended with this bill. Are we intending as a Parliament to put in place quality affordable medicinal cannabis products which will be provided and also given to patients who qualify for them who require them where doctors and pharmacists and nurses are able to be part of a conversation and able to prescribe products to assist in pain relief or other measures or are we actually putting in place a twofold regime where yes we will have those products but alongside that we're essentially decriminalising cannabis and loose leaf at the same time? If that's the purpose let's be honest about it and let's just have a conversation. I know the Government's going to have a conversation about that in a referendum but let's have those conversations openly and honestly and with some transparency.So I urge the Minister to consider my recommendation to have the review on a regular basis—not just once but every two years—because that would at least provide some more assurance to this House the intent of the Minister which he's just said is to ensure there's a quality affordable medicinal cannabis medicine process and market products available to the community. That would give some more assurance to his words because at the moment this legislation essentially will leave two pathways—two markets of products—available in New Zealand. Thank you Mr Chair."