Dean JacquiHon JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): Thank you Madam Chair. I support Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 139 of Brett Hudson who has made an amendment and I think this is a very good suggestion—very consistent with National's policy when we were in Government: In clause 4 new section 50 replace subsection (2) with: (2) Before carrying out a competition study the Commission—(a) must obtain approval for the study from the Minister; and (b) must by notice in the Gazette—(i) prescribe the terms of reference for the study; and (ii) specify the date by which the Commission will make the final competition report for the study publicly available."This is a good check on the Commerce Commission. I'm touched by the faith of the current Minister Kris Faafoi in the Commerce Commission. They are good people—they are very good people—and it's lovely that he has such a kind and loving and trusting relationship with them. But actually a competition study is going to have a large impact on New Zealand business large and small particularly on the small. If one thinks about the fact that business in New Zealand any market in New Zealand generally is dominated by small business—after all 97 percent of all business in New Zealand is undertaken by small business—then the cost and the impost of a market study or competition study is going to fall on small business rather than a larger business which has a whole business unit which I'm sure is taking place as we speak to be the body which deals with incoming market studies.So it is lovely of the Hon Kris Faafoi to have such a warm and trusting relationship with the Commerce Commission and a commission which I also have a lot of respect for but who live in the city. They live in Wellington and they live in Auckland; mostly the people who work for the Commerce Commission are people who live in cities. Well a lot of the markets—and particularly if we choose just one market study potentially a fuel market study—they sell fuel at Mount Cook and they sell fuel in Ranfurly and they sell fuel in Tongariro National Park. It is those small-business fuel retailers who are going to feel the imposition of a market study disproportionately to the size of their business and disproportionately to the larger suppliers of fuel who are spread mainly because of the numbers in the cities. So I absolutely support this SOP.I think the Minister must step up and take some responsibility in the initiation of a market study. I think it is simply not good enough for the Commerce Commission to test the wind from Auckland or Wellington and sense there is an anomaly or an unfairness or some practice that they are not supporting within a market. It does need ministerial responsibility. Isn't that what a Government is for? Isn't that why we have Cabinet and Ministers?Under this Supplementary Order Paper the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs will be alerted to a market dysfunction or market problem. It may well come from the public—there might be a public outcry. It may well come from the Commerce Commission but if I were the Minister I would expect that the Commerce Commission in that instance would come to my office and outline their concerns around that market and why they feel that a market study is worthy of consideration by the Minister and by the Cabinet. That's why we have a Government: to provide a check and a brake on our bureaucracy.I don't buy the "I trust the Commerce Commission because they are good people." argument. Yes they are good people—of course they are good people—but that is why this country has got a Minister of commerce and a Cabinet which has got to be the check on any market study any competition study. It's not for the big guys not for the big fuel companies not for the big supermarkets but for the little guys the small business owners who might well be a husband and wife team somewhere in New Zealand somewhere in the provinces who will have a disproportionate burden placed upon them in any form of market study."