Carter DavidRt Hon DAVID CARTER (National): I want to thank the member who's just resumed his seat Dr Duncan Webb for a spirited contribution. But my question having listened to him is: is the current law already adequate for the very behaviour we talked about? And I want to—Hon Member: No.Rt Hon DAVID CARTER: Well somebody interjected No." but I want to give an example whereby I suspect the caucus hasn't been fully informed by the Labour Cabinet. When the previous Government introduced the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) Act it required the stock and station industry to be deeply involved in the implementation. I think almost inadvertently some of those companies got together as they sorted out appropriate charges that they'd make at particular sale yards for the completion of the NAIT obligations. As I say almost inadvertently I think those companies fell foul of commerce legislation at the time because they were accused by the Commerce Commission of price fixing exactly the sort of behaviour that Dr Duncan Webb said we should not tolerate in New Zealand. I happen to know that some of those companies recognised that they'd broken the current law and were fined many hundreds of thousands of dollars. One major stock and station company decided to fight the Commerce Commission and lost and I think I'd be right in saying their total costs would've exceeded a million dollars. So in the spirited contribution you've just heard I ask the question whether the very situation that Dr Webb has raised is not already covered by commerce legislation in this country.Which leads me to the relevant question that should be asked: is this legislation necessary tonight? I listened to the Hon Paul Goldsmith's contribution and I think he's got it in one: Cabinet has sat there and panicked about the amount of legislation that they have to present on an Order Paper. I think we're getting very very close to the situation where the Government's going to have to consider changing the sitting programme that's been set by the Parliament at the start of the parliamentary term simply because they haven't got a legislative agenda. That's what's going on here. I can imagine the panicked call around to Cabinet saying "Get your officials to find anything that we can bring before the House claim it's urgent claim it's important." and here we are within five months of the election discussing the Commerce (Criminalisation of Cartels) Amendment Bill. I say to the Government "Is this all you've got to talk about having won an election and with an agenda?" I cannot believe we're in the House tonight finding this important enough to do.What's clear to me after the contribution from Duncan Webb is that he truly doesn't understand the current legislation. He doesn't understand the necessity for this legislation. He can't ask for it. And if you wanted a further example for the fact that the Government doesn't know what it's doing listen to the very lacklustre performance from the Hon Kris Faafoi when he introduced this legislation. This legislation will impose cost on the business community. We've got a regulatory impact statement prepared by the Government—well not prepared by the Government for this particular legislation because it hasn't had time to do it but I go back and look at a previous regulatory impact statement and that then said that they're not sure about the cost that will be imposed on business by this legislation.I say to this Government it's been around now for five months you should've had an agenda when you won the election and it's time to come forward and debate your agenda. The best that the Government can do is come up with the Commerce (Criminalisation of Cartels) Amendment Bill. If that's the best they can do after nine long years in Opposition it's time they really considered whether they're worthy of being the Government of this country."