Falloon AndrewANDREW FALLOON (National—Rangitata): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. It's a pleasure to be taking a call on the first reading of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill (No 2). But before I do I'd just like to join some of my other colleagues this evening and pay tribute to our leader Bill English who has announced he's stepping down. Bill has made a remarkable contribution to our Parliament and to our country and I thank him very much.Canterbury accounts for around one-fifth of our nation's dairy herd and I'm very proud to come from the electorate of Rangitata and represent them in this Parliament. It is one of the premier dairy regions of New Zealand and they contribute a huge amount to our local economy both in mid-Canterbury and in South Canterbury.In South Canterbury in particular we have the Fonterra Clandeboye plant which will be directly affected by this bill by being a Fonterra asset. They employ about 1000 staff in my electorate and have just increased their staffing by around 100 with a huge expansion of their mozzarella plant. It's exactly what some other speakers have been talking about tonight in terms of that value-add. It's taking that raw product and turning it into a highly valuable and highly marketable product internationally. It's the third expansion in just a few short years and it means that Fonterra mozzarella now accounts for just less than half I think of the mozzarella on pizzas in China. I am a reasonably regular visitor to their plant. Unfortunately as members can tell I'm also a relatively regular consumer of their product.I do want to turn directly to the bill though and I guess more directly to what's not in the bill. The Minister has made reference several times to a review as have other members which is going to kick this or any meaningful reform down the road by around 12 months.The other aspect that's not in this bill—and that will probably come up because the Minister I think himself has referred to the need for environmental aspects to be included in that review—is what happened during the election campaign just last year when you had David Parker then just a humble Labour MP come to my electorate to discuss water issues and particularly water issues as they pertained to the dairy industry. So he came along to a meeting in Ashburton which was attended by a large number of dairy farmers. I unfortunately didn't go to that meeting but I've heard a huge number of reports of how he behaved at that meeting. He was pressed on what value or what price the water tax that Labour were proposing would be. At the time he wasn't willing to give a figure but he responded by saying Don't push me or I'll double it." Unfortunately that is something that this review that the Minister is kicking off will probably cover by covering the environmental aspects and more specifically issues around water. That's what will be included unfortunately if Labour and particularly the Greens have their way.I want to speak more broadly I guess on the environment and particularly as it pertains to this bill and the review that will be kicked off by this bill. I don't think members opposite give farmers nearly enough credit and my colleague Nathan Guy touched on this before. Actually farmers have done a huge amount over the last few years in improving the environment around them by things like riparian planting by a huge amount of fencing of waterways and then also backed by the Government through things like the National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management and Plan Change 5 in Canterbury—that's put on strict nutrient limits and I hope the Government continues to work with farmers on that.I want to before I end just cover off a comment that was made by Mark Patterson from New Zealand First earlier. He mentioned that 12 months in terms of the review is the blink of an eye. Well actually it's 12 months that doesn't need to happen because we did that review—we've been out and consulted with farmers and the industry on what needs to happen with this legislation. So it staggers me that the Minister feels the need to go off and start another 12-month process when as my colleagues have said all he needs to do is go back and read those submissions and talk to those same people and chances are he'll come to the same position that we did.So I'm genuinely surprised that Mark Patterson who I understand is a dairy farmer is defending that position. Certainly what I hear down my way in Rangitata is that people want to know what's going to happen. They want certainty and that's what if we were in Government we would deliver. Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker."