McAnulty KieranKIERAN McANULTY (Labour—Wairarapa): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. It gives me great pride to stand here tonight as the MP for Wairarapa a region that is heavily dependent on the primary sector and as their representative in this House it gives me great pride to stand in support of this bill. This bill is not so much just about the primary sector. It is about the whole economy because we are a trading nation and the Labour Party is a party that stands proudly on its record of signing us up to trade agreements. That side of the House may laugh. They may giggle and they may joke amongst themselves but they know that under the previous Labour Government we signed us up to the China free-trade agreement. They know that this country is reaping the benefits of that free-trade agreement and they also know—as they begrudgingly admit tonight—that this bill allows us and sets us up as a nation to take advantage of the economic benefits that this agreement and the bill that allows this partnership to come into force will bring to this nation. By opening up our trade to essentially a third of the world's population it sets us up to achieve the goals that this Government has set for our economy. This is a part of the plan to increase export value by $44 billion over the next decade—a plan that this party took to the country at the last election—and as part of a wider manifesto it was resoundingly supported in every single rural electorate in the country. So while that side stands up here and says that this Government is placing huge impediment on the primary sector that is the sector that backed us to deliver for them and it is through that bill. They laugh. Let them laugh. Perhaps they need a reminder: 50 percent of the vote—50 percent of the vote—in every single rural seat. So I can stand here with pride to say that we are delivering for those regions and we are delivering for New Zealand manufacturers and we are delivering for New Zealand producers because how else are we going to get $44 billion in increased export value? When we proposed that they also laughed. Where was their plan? We're getting on with the job and this is part of that because we know the future for economic prosperity in this country is based on increasing the value of our exports. They criticise our plan around environmental sustainability without offering an option of their own but they know deep down that our economic prosperity is in terms of giving consumers what they want and the consumers in the markets that this bill allows us to sign up to—they don't want to buy the cheapest product. We have never sold our products to those that want to buy the cheapest. We have always sold our products to the most discerning consumers in the world and this bill gives us more access to those consumers but those consumers don't want agricultural products that impact on the environment. Those consumers do not want to buy primary products from a country that is not doing their bit for climate change. We have to export—that's the guts of this bill and the guts of this agreement. But if we were producing products in a way that doesn't live up to our obligations—obligations that that Government signed us up to and that we're happy to actually deliver—then we know that the value will not be reached. We also know that consumers care more and more about animal welfare. They care more and more about other aspects like the way that industries in countries treat their staff. We are at the top of the world in so many areas but we mustn't be complacent and the measures that we're bringing in are setting us up to take advantage of the agreement that this bill sets us up for. So I say to the other side which—I note they've stopped laughing. I say to them carry on as you are—carry on as you are. Make the news by your distractions. Make the news by arguing amongst yourselves and focusing on things that people don't actually care about. We will carry on with the things that they care about. This bill is a big part of that and when this bill comes through and we're signed up to this partnership exporters will know that it is this Government that's set it up and delivered for them.