McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): I would like to remind Mr Faafoi that we on this side of the House knew this was on on 21 September 2014. You worked it out only last week. I want to talk for a little bit about the primary sector in New Zealand and what is going on out there. We currently produce about 70 percent of New Zealand's cash receipts in provincial New Zealand. We have GDP of about 7 percent and that is not a bad thing. It shows we are reasonably efficient. Approximately 400000 jobs rely on or are directly involved in agriculture. The farming community of New Zealand manages a large part of New Zealand's land mass and the primary sector as a whole also oversees a good deal of our offshore economic zone. Fletcher Tabuteau: We can't hear the man speak. IAN McKELVIE: Ah that is good. There are some factors critical to the future success of this sector both as a vital part of the New Zealand economy and as a good corporate citizen. A truly sustainable environment is absolutely critical to agriculture—land and water. Playing our part in the climate change challenges and the solutions facing the world is critical to the future of our agricultural community as well. Ensuring water is well used in a sustainable and productive manner is also critical and ensuring our people involved in the sector are looked after and managed in a manner so that they can both enjoy life and get plenty out of it. There are of course many other factors involved in agriculture and I will touch on a couple of them shortly. However I want to—appropriately I guess—talk about water. Having listened very carefully to the Leader of the Opposition speak this morning I want to express my dismay that a person in her position can have such a poor ill-conceived and misrepresentative view of our No. 1 industry and I will touch on that in a minute. Some of the other critical things to agriculture are animal welfare food safety biosecurity and health and safety. When you touch on the health and safety thing I do not think Opposition members have thought for a minute about the ramifications of putting a whole lot of young people out in provincial rural New Zealand and in a lot of cases 50 to 100 kilometres from any kind of civilisation. Have they thought of the health and safety factors around that? No they have not. Who is going to take responsibility for that? No doubt the future Government if those members are to be the Government will take responsibility for that. They have not considered it at all. We must learn from our past mistakes and to tax charge and implement policy without science or solutions to rectify an issue is surely not in New Zealand's best interests. Farmers in New Zealand are great adaptors and innovators who can move to best practice very quickly and effectively. National's policy has always been to assist our business communities with the tools to do so not hit them with a sledgehammer. I want to get on to a topic that Ron Mark touched on and every time he speaks in this House he displays his lack of knowledge of provincial New Zealand frankly which I think is an amazing thing. None the less he talked about the Horizons One Plan. I want to talk about some comments that the Leader of the Opposition made this morning in respect of issues that arise from the Horizons One Plan and the challenges that Horizons Regional Council has had in implementing that plan. Ron Mark did touch on that although not correctly. One of the real challenges we have got in New Zealand is to implement nitrate- and phosphate-leaching policies in a manner that can be managed that is sustainable and that will ensure that our provincial rural communities remain intact. To listen to the Leader of the Opposition this morning she clearly had no—I guess she did not gather the challenges that are involved in these plans that we have put in place and the Waikato plan is now following the Horizons One Plan much down the same lines. I do not have any problem with that. I do not think the agricultural sector has any problem with the ultimate goals of these plans. We certainly have problems with the implementation of these plans in 5 years as the Leader of the Opposition talked about this morning. There is no way it can possibly work and it will undermine provincial rural New Zealand. It will undermine our productivity. It will almost put a stop in parts of my electorate—particularly the northern Horowhenua and the Waimarino—to much of the horticulture that goes on there at present. It is also going to seriously challenge the horticultural areas around Pukekohe but there will be no problem—we will just shove the houses on them I guess. There are some significant challenges to the policy that the Labour Party announced this morning that go way beyond the fact that it is another tax and another I guess increase in costs to the production in our food sector. So there are some serious challenges around this and I think the biggest one is the fact that we are trying to implement something without sufficiently enabling the science to assist in the solutions to it because there will be solutions to this but they just will not be achieved in 5 years. They might be achieved in the time frame that this Government has given it and I think that is the reason we have managed it in a moderate manner to date. Thank you.