Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): It is a pleasure to take a call this morning on the Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Amendment Bill. It really is related to wines and spirits although we have had a lot of good discussions around food this morning which I think is great because it is about provenance and it is about pride as well as being about certainty of the product for people who buy this wine. Parochialism is alive and well. There is a bit of an MP rivalry between Tasman and Taranaki when it comes to rugby and of course Stuart Smith—who has a lot of knowledge of wine—and I along with Nick Smith agreed that whoever lost the recent game between Taranaki and Tasman would front up with a bottle of wine. We did not win. Unfortunately Tasman did. But I got a text from Stuart Smith with the name of some specific bottle of wine from his region that he thought would be appropriate to pay my dues in terms of losing the rugby. I quickly got back to him—and I am never going to win a discussion with Stuart Smith on wine as he is an expert on the subject; I drink beer—and I said to him: No. You are going to get a wine from my electorate." I have Vilagrad wines. I do not have much wine in my electorate but I do have the Vilagrad Winery. It is recovering from a massive fire from last year and it has reopened and is back in business. So he is going to get the bottle of wine with "V" for Vilagrad. Unfortunately we did not have a "V" for victory. But that parochialism and those geographic indicators are about provenance and pride in what we produce. So I am really supporting this piece of legislation because I do think we need to go out into the world and be absolutely proud of what we produce. I do not get a lot of chances to watch TV but when I had do it is often a cooking programme. We have far too many cooking programmes but I watched a British one. It is all about buying British beef and British lamb and I think that we in New Zealand have got to be a lot more proud of supporting our own products. I was really thrilled recently when I had the opportunity to go through Taupō for a business parliamentary attachment. Louis and I went to a restaurant called The Lazy Trout. I opened up the menu—it was a lovely meal—and it had Kāwhia Coast whitebait King Country beef and King Country venison and I am thinking "Wow! I'm so proud of my electorate." I am so proud of where this food came from and I had to taste everything that came from where I came from. I went in there with no intention of having dessert but when I found out that it was Taharoa cheesecake with Pirongia forest berries on top guess what? I had dessert. I did not need it but I had it. But for me it is about that provenance story. I have been having a number of conversations with Wintec. It now has children making camembert in the classroom from our good dairy products. And I will put a call out to the dairy farmers. Yesterday it was fantastic to have that increase in the auction. It was really specifically good to have that 19 percent increase in whole-milk powder and to actually lift stuff out of that commodity cycle which we are so dependent on and get some pride into our products. Last night I was fortunate enough to be at the Pāmu Farms of New Zealand presentation and watch a great presentation about Lewis Road Creamery. I saw the pride that there is in that product and the extension of the product lines that are going out the marketing and the advertising—it pops up on Facebook—and there is now a new chocolate spread there is ice cream and a whole range of things. Building on that brand and building on that story is so important. While we are on the topic of food we should not forget our fibre as well. We had a great presentation of what can be done in terms of natural and healthy carpets for our homes from the wool that we produce. Things have been taken over a little bit—well a lot—by synthetics in recent times. I proudly stand here in support of this bill on wines and spirits. I do have a tendency to drink beer rather than wine. Recently the King Country Brewing Co. has started labelling and canning the King Country beer with the big hat on and the Ragland Brewing Co. has also launched so pride and provenance is important to me and I support this bill. Thank you."