Wagner NickyHon NICKY WAGNER (National): Thank you very much Madam Chair. I'm talking to this clause 8. Really this clause highlights the misleading nature of this bill because it focuses on reviewing the exception and defence provisions but it doesn't even reference the far more extensive and the far more important medicinal cannabis regime. Of course that regime is the result of the 29 words in the original bill that opens the door for this provision to be established.As we've heard clause 8 requires the Minister to instruct the Ministry of Health to review the exemption and defence provisions—that's the new subsections (2A) and (3A) in section 7—and they must be reviewed within two years only once and I assume that that only once" recognises the temporary nature of the exemption in the bill. Although we've discussed that with the Minister—we've discussed the importance of understanding the length of this temporary measure—the Minister is not prepared to include a sunset clause. So here we have a provision to review a temporary measure that only affects a very small number of people whereas there's absolutely no provision to review the substantive part of this bill which is the medicinal cannabis scheme which is a significant important and long-term change to our community.The legislation required to deliver an effective safe and community-supported medicinal cannabis scheme is far more complex far more detailed and far more important than this exemption. What's more the medicinal cannabis scheme will affect thousands—perhaps even hundreds of thousands—of New Zealanders and maybe even people beyond our shores.Now the issues that Dr Shane Reti has identified in the bill and the legislation that he has worked on illustrate the complexity and the need for review of this particular part of clause 8. For example his legislation—his bill—covers things like application for licences granting a licence eligibility for the licences who should be able to have a licence—individuals corporate bodies—and who's responsible for them the safety of the location conditions and restrictions of licences the standard conditions control and staff how you can undertake things in a specified location storage and the requirement to work with the Director-General of Health. It also talks about reporting on that work and it also talks about—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Come to the debate.Hon NICKY WAGNER: —offences. But I'm coming back—and the reason that I'm telling you all this is to emphasise the fact that this is significant complex legislation and yet there's no opportunity to review it. We're reviewing this tiny little bit which is the exemption.So it's really all about priorities and I believe that Parliament needs to be very aware of how we use our resources. We shouldn't be making work. We shouldn't be requiring our Minister and our departments to do things that won't make any difference and this amendment won't make any difference. I think we need to be responsible also for things that are important to the people in our community. We need to carefully consider and we need to closely monitor and review significant legislation that is going to change the way that our society works and in this case that is the medicinal cannabis scheme.So I don't support the reviewing of the temporary exemption but I do support a much more parliamentary supervision over the medical cannabis scheme and over how it's developed and how it will work to make sure that it does deliver those high-quality products that we expect at a reasonable price so that we can keep our communities safe. This clause fails on both counts."