Sosene Lemauga LydiaLEMAUGA LYDIA SOSENE (Labour): 谢谢 and talofa. As the final speaker on this Animal Welfare Amendment Bill—the third and final reading—it is a privilege to make a short contribution to this bill. I wish to thank you for the opportunity. The Minister who spoke earlier on the bill and also Minister Meka Whaitiri highlighted a number of concerns and why this bill is at the forefront.Firstly I would like to acknowledge the loss of life of not just the livestock but the members of the community. When the ship sank it was a real tragedy and it would have been very traumatic for the members to lose not just the livestock but also members of their family. I want to acknowledge that because sometimes these things are forgotten in the eyes of risky business. Whilst I was not a member of the Primary Production Committee I would like to thank them for this work. I would also like to thank the officials for this work and the submitters. There were 637 written submissions which were quite varied as I understand from the evidence but also there were 33 oral submitters who raised a number of concerns and also the mixed feedback that the select committee could not decide on.In my short contribution I do want to just speak on a couple of points—namely the bill is to ban the practice of exporting live cattle deer sheep and goats by ship and the transition period is until 30 April 2023. And that's actually not too far away. As we've heard in the earlier kōrero by both Ministers it is a real tragedy that New Zealand has to acknowledge that when this practice or this trade goes ahead we have little control. So there still remain quite risky practices of this trade. When that ship sank and the livestock was lost it was as I understand the seventh time. And even after that there was another ship that sank during the COVID period Al Badri which did lose over 15000 sheep and although the crew managed to get off the ship and disembark it is still a tragedy that we have to acknowledge. We have to review—that is what the bill contains in the practices namely the reputation of New Zealand in the trade industry. What we want to strengthen with this amendment bill are the practices and the reputation that we have on the world stage to do with livestock.It's really important that the only way that we can guarantee animal welfare is to ban the live export the current practice; hence the amendment bill. So on a world stage in the farming sector—and I've been listening to the kōrero from both sides all afternoon—New Zealand has a proud and high regard for animal welfare standards and we have to take that ethical standard that ethical point. Because we don't want to put at risk just the lives of people on the ships but also the livestock we want to maintain particularly because of our location on the globe.In 2019 the Government did direct the Ministry for Primary Industries to review this specific procedure and so when that review takes place in this amendment bill—the Animal Welfare Act 1999—to ban live export of cattle deer sheep and goats it is the right thing to do. That practice in the transition period will carry on until 30 April 2023. This will protect livestock from New Zealand. Whilst there are the farmers who are very concerned at how they are going to do their business there needs to be a primary concern around the livestock and this Government supports that the trade is very risky and this bill will ensure and aspire to the better systems with the regulatory system improvement with the complete ban on the trade. I commend this bill to the House.