Luxton Jo; Dean JacquiJO LUXTON (Labour—Rangitata): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to take a call on this piece of legislation as the chair of the Primary Production Committee who oversaw the submissions etc. of this piece of legislation after the first reading. Before I begin my contribution I just want to acknowledge my fellow select committee members who worked really well and in good faith on this piece of legislation and in particular Todd Muller who was the lead Opposition member on this. The committee worked really well together; it wasn't easy. There were some differing views—quite strongly differing views—but we did come together and come out with a second reading piece of legislation that I think is quite reflective of most areas in which we agreed. I'd also like to acknowledge and thank the advisers who worked really well with the committee. We had several meetings outside of parliamentary hours and early mornings etc. and everyone worked well and contributed really well to that.I'd also actually really like to acknowledge the submitters that we heard from. Some of them were actually quite heart-wrenching and emotional stories that some of our submitters told of the effects that COVID has had on their businesses and I don't think that we've stopped and perhaps thought about that so much. We've talked about how our farmers our agricultural farmers but also actually our commercial fishers were severely impacted during that time of COVID when they were unable to operate. Fisheries is an important part of our economy. It employs over 13000 people and contributes $4.2 billion to our economy overall with $1.35 billion in export revenue so it is a very very important piece of our economy. The Minister traversed many of the changes that we've made to this piece of legislation but one of the things I wanted to touch on was just the importance of this piece of legislation allowing having cameras on board and I know that some of this was initially thought of and begun under the Hon Nathan Guy. So it will be really good to see this come to fruition and have these cameras on boats. I think that's going to be important to ensure that we do see more transparency and that it does encourage better fishing practices. We've heard comments around the infringement regime and the previous speaker talked about there being a $10000 fine. I think that the words he didn't include were could be"—"could be"—but not necessarily and I think from what I understand there is going to be consultation with the sector and further decision-making around how things might look will be based upon those findings. But we did hear that the demerit point system is going to be introduced which I think is really good. It's important that it is relative to the offending as opposed to one-size-fits-all and the infringement notices that will come into force—we did have discussion around what that might look like. Is it going to look like when you get a speeding ticket or a parking ticket? So that's my understanding of how that's going to be and they will expire after three years which I think is really good because sometimes people do things without perhaps realising unintentionally or sometimes intentionally but it does give people the opportunity to redeem themselves. So again I just want to thank and acknowledge my select committee who worked really well on this piece of legislation thank the Minister advisers and all those who submitted to it. So I commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Members the House is suspected and I will resume the Chair at 9 a.m. tomorrow for the extended sitting. Good evening.Debate interrupted.Sitting suspended from 9.55 p.m. to 9.a.m (Wednesday)"