O'Connor SimonSIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): I actually came in expecting sort of a quiet night but that's been some great entertainment; I think it's what you call a modular speech. The member who's resumed his seat Kieran McAnulty had no idea what he was talking about but basically just slotted in a few words every so often about trade on top of as I say a modular speech.Look fascinatingly actually it's illustrative of three initial points I want to make. Isn't it fascinating that we have the Government effectively filibustering itself all afternoon? They've got no other legislation to talk to that they're taking full calls on a very simple bipartisan trade bill.The second part which is really important about trade because they wax lyrical—or perhaps wax boring—that the last trade deal that this House had to deal with the member who resumed his seat and the whole lot of them were out there protesting. That was called the Trans-Pacific Partnership which was far more substantial than this. So I just think it's absolutely fascinating it's quite rich" one would say.The third part—Hon Phil Twyford: CPTPP.SIMON O'CONNOR: That's right it's now called the CPTPP. The great contribution of the Labour Party was to discover the letters "C" and "T"; rather than communism and Trotskyism it was "comprehensive" and "partnership". That was a good learning.The third element is—it's what's really important for people to understand at home—this is a domestic piece of legislation to bring into effect a treaty a trade agreement that was started by Tim Groser and has been agreed to. So look it's good—it's good. OK. Thirty percent of the world's population's covered by this. About 30 percent of the world's GDP and over about I think 56 percent of New Zealand's exports go into the area that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) covers.But let's be clear let's not overcook this. OK. It's good—it's good. It's a good agreement but let's not overcook this as some amazing free-trade agreement. This is bringing together existing bilaterals. New Zealand has relationships with all the countries in ASEAN and through this RCEP agreement that's really good. So this builds on it but I want the Government to be really clear—as it should be with the public—that this is not some amazing new trade agreement from scratch. It is building on existing bilateral agreements. So as I say let's not overcook it. All trade's positive. Build on it. But you would have thought from some of the speeches from the other side that this is an enormous breakthrough. Those breakthroughs already happened.Probably what's going to be the best coming out of this is a consistent approach to things like intellectual property services and investment frameworks. This is really really good. So look a positive there. I think we want more of it. And that's where I'm probably going to finish you know because the whole thing about trade is removing tariffs—let's say symbolically I'll remove time of me speaking which is probably a great favour to the House. But fundamentally let's celebrate RCEP. But the challenge to the Government is to actually get on with more bilateral agreements which this House will endorse and particularly with the UK and particularly with the EU. The message is simple: get on with it or as the Labour Party might say "Let's do this.""