Mooney JosephJOSEPH MOONEY (National—Southland): Thank you very much Mr Chair. I want to ask the Minister whether the name of this bill is a bit of a misnomer because the bill is called the Animal Welfare Amendment Act" but the question is: is this going to actually lead to unintended consequences in terms of animal welfare? I ask whether it should have another name which is the "To End Live Export From New Zealand Act" rather than the "Animal Welfare Amendment Act"? I note a matter that industries attempted to bring to the Minister's attention in respect of this issue around animal welfare is that there is going to be an increase in the number of bobby calves—quite a significant increase—who could otherwise be sent overseas to happy homes. Would the Minister accept that this bill should really be called something else—for example should it be called the "Increase in the Number of Bobby Calves Slaughtered in New Zealand Act" as opposed to the "Animal Welfare Amendment Act"? It's an important issue because there's a number of developing challenges around the world in terms of food security and the animals are needed to fill that increase in food security issues. This bill seems to be missing a huge opportunity to develop a gold standard in terms of exporting animals to the world in a safe and reliable way and developing a gold standard in terms of how to do that to protect the welfare of animals that need to be transported around the world. I note for example that in the Ukraine it's estimated at this stage—and this may increase—that they're going to need 50000 dairy cattle to replace cows that have been lost during the Russia-Ukraine crisis. I note that that war is continuing and the number of animals will no doubt increase and they're going to need animals to replace their herd and the question is where those animals are going to come from and why they can't come from New Zealand. If we didn't have this misnamed Animal Welfare Amendment Bill prohibiting live export from New Zealand we could actually be offering a way to solve that problem for the Ukraine and provide dairy cattle of excellent quality—which New Zealand produces—to them. I note that we're creating a problem in terms of supplying the world with good cattle and we're creating a problem in terms of creating more bobby calves in New Zealand that we don't have space on our land for so my question here is that this bill has got the wrong name. Just to add to that with this food crisis we've also got Indonesia which is dealing with foot-and-mouth so they're going to at some point need to replace their herd as well. Again where are they going to get the animals from? Again this Animal Welfare Amendment Bill is going to mean that we can't be part of their solution because we can't provide animals to Indonesia to help them rebuild their stock from what is a significant crisis that they're going through. So Minister I would ask you to consider whether you have misnamed this bill by calling it the "Animal Welfare Amendment Act" when in fact it's creating problems in terms of animal welfare both in New Zealand and potentially overseas noting that these countries will need to get their animals from elsewhere. So we're not solving the problem; we're just stopping a solution."