Strange JamieJAMIE STRANGE (Labour—Hamilton East): I appreciate the opportunity to take a call on this bill. I always listen very carefully to the previous speaker Todd McClay. He has a lot of experience in this area. However he was making some comments about the Minister not going for the full 10 only going for nine minutes but then the previous speaker only spoke for about five minutes. I did find that a little bit strange. However look I appreciate the opportunity to add to the debate tonight—at 9.30 p.m. on a Tuesday night here in Parliament. Our country is a plant-producing nation. We produce plants well and we produce a variety of plants as we've heard on various bills tonight and we're also a trading nation. And when you combine the two of those together as a plant-producing nation and a trading nation that is where we start to hit our sweet spot as the Minister was talking about.I'm just going to talk a little bit about what the bill does and then I'm going to talk about one of our key exports which benefit greatly from the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). This bill represents a new and uniquely New Zealand approach to plant variety rights that will ensure our responsibilities under the Treaty of Waitangi are upheld while also aligning with the highest international standards of plant variety protection. And meeting our obligations—Hon Simon Bridges: He's reading this for the first time.JAMIE STRANGE: No no. Meeting our obligations to the CPTPP opens the door wide to progressive free trade for New Zealand.Hon David Bennett: Trevor said you can't read it.JAMIE STRANGE: I appreciate the enthusiasm from the members over there because as everyone in this House will realise the CPTPP creates significant opportunities for our country and the aspect around the intellectual property being protected is a very important part of this. I'll get on to the point around one of the key beneficiaries of the CPTPP being kiwifruit. The main planting as we know is in the Bay of Plenty Canterbury Nelson and actually Auckland—I didn't realise there was much kiwifruit in Auckland but there is a little bit up there—Glen Bennett: And Taranaki's doing some—JAMIE STRANGE: And Taranaki as well. So there we go. We've got Kiwifruit all over the country. I was at the Fieldays recently and I went into the Zespri tent. I have visited the Zespri head office—they've got a fantastic head office over there in Tauranga but I visited the Zespri tent and some of their green kiwifruit. It was very nice. But I thought Well look I mean that's OK I have tried that before but it was good. Don't get me wrong." And I tried some gold kiwifruit. That was very nice actually. It was very sweet. But then I tried some red kiwifruit. I think that maybe the Zespri staff knew I was a member of the Labour Party but they gave me this red kiwifruit. I'm not sure how many members in the House have tasted red kiwifruit but it is very very nice. That's just an example of some of the intellectual property that's happening within our plant-based products here in New Zealand. This red kiwifruit I've only tried it once. I'm not sure actually how to get my hands on some more and that's not a pitch to anybody. But just to highlight the opportunities and that's just one industry—we're talking about kiwifruit—and the Minister alluded to other industries as well. In terms of the CPTPP our main market there in terms of the growth aspect is in Japan. Kiwifruit continues to be New Zealand's largest single horticultural export by volume and value. Exports exceeded $2.5 billion in 2020 representing a 36 percent increase in value from 2018 and a lot of that was down to the free-trade agreement that the Hon David Parker signed. So look I probably don't need to say much more. The Minister you know fairly clearly outlined what the bill does and I just wanted to highlight that example of the area of kiwifruit in terms of the innovation and the opportunities under the CPTPP—that it's important that as a small trading nation we continue to capitalise on those opportunities. I commend this bill to the House."