Whaitiri MekaMEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti): I want to thank the Minister in the chair Jo Goodhew for responding to my colleague Rino Tirikatene's question. I also had a similar question but I will not ask the Minister exactly the same one. It was more around new section 74A in clause 6 where I read that under certain circumstances or conditions the bill extends the period of protection as laid out in the bill starting at new section 74. Of course it says in new section 74A(1) that The Director-General must during the protected period that applies to confidential information—(a) take reasonable steps …". I have heard the Minister's assurances that it is in the bill but we all know about human nature and systems. Because we are talking about being competitive and about enabling a very progressive and future-focused food system in this country I too want to hear from the Minister around the assurances that that particular confidential information is protected not only when we say in new section 74(1)(a) "take reasonable steps to ensure that the confidential information is kept confidential …" but later in the bill and I particularly note those conditions—I will not repeat them—in new section 74G where the director-general is required to share that information. I appreciate the Minister's saying that we are talking about a commercial protection here. She gave the response around health. I guess I want to ensure that the guidance given in the bill around protection of confidential information and the availing of it if for example we had a particular outbreak—will the director-general have enough guidance in times of extremes? And it is always the extremes I understand that and let us hope it never happens in this country. But I think people need some assurances that if that ever happened—if we did have an outbreak in our agricultural sector that could be traced back to a particular product—the director-general would have enough guidance in this legislation to release the information for health issues for example. But I will leave that.My other point that I particularly wanted to make is around new sections 74B and 74C particularly in new section 74B where we are talking about an innovative trade name product application for full registration—I get that—and we talk about the commencement date as being 10 years. Then we start seeing the protected period for information set out in new section 74C where we are talking about provisional registration and I guess the protected period of 5 years. Then you turn over the page and you look at new section 74D. Then we go into new sections 74E and 74F which are talking about non-innovative applications both for full registration and provisional registration. I guess my point is that there are quite a lot of conditions. There are various periods of protection and we wonder in considering this whether we feel that the director-general is going to be ably supported—I guess is the question—to ensure that we are not getting the innovative full registration mixed up with the innovative provisional registration and vice versa. When I read this part of the bill and looked through some of the reports from the Primary Production Committee I did not get a sense at all that the particular issue that I raise is adequately addressed. Perhaps the Minister can shed some light on that getting clarity between innovation non-innovation and the protected periods and also the full registration as opposed to the partial registration. Kia ora."