Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): I had to get up in a bit of a flash for that one. Thank you very much to the previous speaker. I'm pretty pleased—and proud as actually—to be able to stand here and support the dignified whakapapa of this legislation the country-of-origin food labelling bill and pretty impressed with my colleagues and our members who have brought this bill to this place and absolutely appreciative of the House and the wide support that the members have given to this bill. This is a long campaign of the Green Party in particular and my colleague Gareth Hughes has been able to bring it to its final reading—third reading—tonight in the House. It's a massive moment for our country actually and for citizens to be able to know where their food comes from.I have to be able to mention that Steffan Browning—is Sue up there tonight?—and former members are up in the gallery tonight watching the passage of this final reading. Sue Kedgley who brought the original bill in I think 2007 and of course Steffan who brought it through the last Parliament. So much work also around in 2007 the 39000 signatures I understand that were presented in a petition in support of New Zealanders being able to know where their food comes from. So I'm proud of the membership in the community-driven mandate to get this bill to where it is. It's a bit cute of my colleague Gareth Hughes as someone who doesn't eat meat with the economic benefit of this bill being equivalent to quite a bit of meat eating—if we're talking about consumption benefit at least. So again really proud.I understand that 55 other countries already have these sorts of standards in place so I'm glad we're getting there. Actually I was thinking. I am a little bewildered as to why it actually took this long. I think this is pretty common sense and a fantastic step for the people of our country to be able to know where their food comes from. I'm glad we're finally doing it and that's the leadership. The fact that 55 other countries have it I understand was perhaps some of the nervousness from some industry as my colleague Gareth Hughes already alluded to in his speech tonight. There was perhaps some nervousness because of some industry wanting to not have the same standards put in place for them. But I say back our New Zealand brand back our New Zealand products and see the added value and the economic benefits for our own New Zealand made products.I'm really pleased that we're putting this through. I had a look and my colleagues in the House tonight have covered what the actual bill includes but I did want to at least mention that what is happening under the Fair Trading Act is there will be this disclosure of a regulated food's country or place of origin." It is interesting that those "regulated foods must include food that—(a) is either—(i) only 1 type of fruit vegetable meat fish or seafood that—(A) is fresh … or frozen and is not for example dried cured or pickled; and (B) [that] is no more than minimally processed"—just to give members and people a little bit of further understanding. There's been lots of acknowledgment tonight of pork being put in. I think that's really good considering that I think two-thirds of pork is imported including from countries that may have weak or no animal welfare standards. Because this is really just about informed choice and people being able to make those informed choices with this labelling at least informed of the country of origin.I did actually appreciate my colleague Meka Whaitiri's discussion on country of origin as a wider issue. She talked about the whakapapa and the indigenous ingenuity of transporting and transferring foods. It made me think of heirloom seeds and the journey of the kūmara. Obviously in this bill it excludes I guess second on-sell like if you're going to be selling food in cafes or restaurants of course the committee and the advisers have obviously found that it's perhaps not pragmatic and practical to have labelling in that instance but that we're particularly looking at origin retail and supply so food labelling required for that.I just also wanted to pick up on where to next mainly because as my colleague referred to there were quite a lot of changes that this bill went through through the committee with good advice. We've perhaps got a good starting point of what is included and how. It's really good to see that we've got a bit of enforcement through offences for false or misleading labelling on packaged food I understand with fines of up to $10000 for individuals and $50000 for organisations just to give it a little bit of teeth and to ensure that we mean what we say when we want New Zealanders to know where their food comes from. But it did go through some other sort of compromises and changes and a little bit of balancing-out of a pragmatic approach and being sure that we can also put in further regulations that are going to have a little bit more of the detail of how we do this.It does then leave the question of where to next if this is a good starting point. I absolutely wanted to pick up on the possibility for example of plain language in ingredients. For example I have to have help from my personal trainer to understand that one teaspoon of sugar equals four grams and that 800 milligrams of sodium should be our cut-off point. See I can't get that understanding from the current way that I have a whole one second of supermarket time to look at and try and work this out. I do think there's possible areas of plain language to be looked at.New Zealanders with this bill will have the power to make their choices based on country of origin and the reasons why New Zealanders in surveys and petitions are in clear support of this is because they want to make those ethical consumer choices. That will mean that there is still work to do especially around things like palm oil production and really needing to know what products we are buying have that included.So all in all a celebration for our country tonight and my personal pride in my colleagues and the members of the party who have pushed this through my appreciation for the colleagues across the House and their acknowledgment of this as a real positive step for our industry for our market and especially for our citizens.I wondered if perhaps also we might even start to drill it down to town or region of origin in the future. Although you could just be like Paeroa and actually just put the name of your town on the fizzy drink that they make so that everyone's very clear. Sometimes you can work out the town of origin if it is New Zealand made. But this is a really good step and a really good sign. I congratulate Gareth Hughes Steffan Browning Sue Kedgley and all the members that we are able to put this through tonight. Kia ora."