Guy NathanHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): Thank you Mr Chair. Can I acknowledge the Minister in the chair the Hon Andrew Little this evening and thank him for bringing this Supplementary Order Paper through and thank him for working so constructively with the previous speaker Ian McKelvie MP for Rangitīkei. This is a good change and as we've just heard from the previous speaker he worked hard on a member's bill and officials rolled their sleeves up and got amongst it with members of the Primary Production Committee and thought there is a better way to get the outcomes that indeed Ian McKelvie wanted but the whole select committee wanted. So I acknowledge Minister Little for picking this up.I was thinking about rural communities because this law change is going to help them. Often rural communities live in places that are very isolated. When they come to find that some of their livestock have indeed been rustled and taken illegally they feel extremely vulnerable. I guess the challenge with all of this—we're the lawmakers in the Parliament this evening pushing this law change through which I wholeheartedly support—back to I guess the Government and society is making sure that we have the available policing resources to actually respondHon Stuart Nash: 1800 in three years.Hon NATHAN GUY: It's good that Stuart Nash has picked up National Party policy in the election campaign and the real challenge back to the Minister is ensuring that those police are in provincial and rural New Zealand.The difficulty for farmers until the National Party came in to respond to stop rustlers and report it very quickly through to the police was cellphone coverage. And what did National do? Well we broadened the Rural Broadband Initiative so that now farmers in most places—admittedly not everywhere—can respond a lot quicker.The challenge for farmers of course is they—when you think about sheep—might have mobs of one to two thousand ewes in a flock and they won't necessarily know that five have gone missing. They don't go out there every day and count them. It's not like a dairy farmer that has a pretty good idea milking his or her cows every day of exactly how many are in the herd. Suddenly they get their sheep in which they might only do once every quarter to drench them for shearing for dagging or for weaning and suddenly they realise this flock was 2000 and now through stock rustling—and when I'm talking about stock rustling I don't necessarily mean someone just bringing the sheep into the corner and slaughtering a couple. Unfortunately there are well-organised people that are out there with stock trucks loading them out of yards in the early hours of the morning or indeed bringing the horse float in and shoving 20 very valuable ewe hogget replacements on board and cutting their throats. These types of crimes need to be dealt to.The people that are doing this will be dealt to if indeed there is evidence. And that's the next thing rural communities need to work together. Because often the talk in the pub or the rugby club well that needs to be followed up on. It doesn't just happen with one individual often there are numerous people that are doing this.I'm pleased on the definition Minister that you have that nice and broad for agriculture purposes because I was thinking back to avocados remember the price that they got to just this season and—Dan Bidois: Eight dollars!Hon NATHAN GUY: Exactly. So what do people do? They just think Oh well I'm driving past an avocado orchard I'll just pop in and take a little bit of fruit." Well they'll be done under this. Then of course we've got the mānuka honey industry. Beekeeping is worth about $300 million of exports to New Zealand. It's growing. It's the gold rush. It's like infant formula was. There are hives everywhere. And in fact what do people do? Well they think it's OK to rock up their trailer or truck and take these hives. They will be dealt to under this.The other thing that I think is really topical is cannabis reform. Minister Little's going to be overseeing the referendum and we're waiting to see what the question is. But some of these cannabis growers in fact many of them just hop on to farmers' land where the maize crop is growing—those of you who don't know what maize is it's a corn crop ideal for growing cannabis in amongst the rows. So therein lies another challenge—back to Stuart Nash making sure we've got the police resources.Finally can I commend Ian McKelvie his idea getting it up. And can I acknowledge Andrew Little for supporting him to make the change that is necessary."