Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. Dairy farmers be warned: your worst nightmare is happening in front of you today in this House. There is no need for this bill to go to urgency; therefore you have to ask your question: why would the Government want to take this bill to urgency? The reason is because they are going to have a full-scale attack on the dairy industry and by doing this they take away any option for the industry and farmers to have any say in what's happening to their companies their industry their milk and their land over the next few years.This will be a comprehensive" review. We have heard that from the Minister and the Labour Government spokesperson in this area. If you look at the press release it said: "environmental issues land use and how to achieve the best outcomes for farmers consumers and the New Zealand economy." "Environmental issues land use"—they have nothing to do with the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA). The DIRA is set up around milk supply issues around Fonterra when it was created. It is not meant to be an investigation into land use environmental issues. Every dairy farmer out there that is milking cows now listen to the radio because in the next few days you will see that the dairy industry will now be subject to a review that will be set up by the Labour Government will be backed up by the Green Party and will have New Zealand First in there and that review will bring environmental and land use changes to your properties and to your farms. It's exactly what's happened in the Waikato with the regional council up there and will be the next stage of what that Minister of Agriculture wants to do and those environmental and land-use changes will reflect in the industry going forward.I bet that one of the things that will come out of this will be a stocking rate cap on New Zealand dairy farmers. That will happen as a result of this review. That's what the Greens want. They've always wanted that. They've wanted to stop dairying in New Zealand. This is their chance. They're laughing licking their lips because they know they've got their opportunity and in the darkness of night they're putting this through Parliament to make sure dairy farmers don't have any say and then are going to attack the guts out of that industry going forward. That's what Labour are up to here today. Don't dress it up in any way talking about dates for May and the South Island industry; this is an attack on all New Zealand dairy farmers and it is about environmental and land use and it is a disgrace for the Labour Government to do this.Hon Member: Scam.Hon DAVID BENNETT: It is a scam. I ask this question: if it is so important and there are so many issues there why didn't the Labour Government pass what had been introduced into this House some time ago? Not only was that South Island component in there but there were three other major components that were in the bill that was introduced originally. The first was open entry and exit. Now the Green Party is against conversions of dairy farm land in New Zealand. The open entry and exit provisions that were in the original bill would have enabled Fonterra to say no to new conversions. Why aren't the Green Party supporting that because there's going to be the potential now for new conversions to go ahead that the dairy bill would have stopped. The Green Party actually knows that it can let that go because it's got a wider agenda and that's around land use and environmental change that this bill will enable them to follow.I want to look at the effect that another party in this Parliament said and that's the Rt Hon Winston Peters on 16 June. He said "Look at the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act. Instead of triggering 'sunset clauses' with Fonterra's South Island market share meeting the Act's 80 per cent threshold National wants to revise it lower to 75 per cent in both islands. That only benefits … foreign processors." That was New Zealand First and then they're doing it again here today. So I want to see what New Zealand First have said but there is help on its way because they said that "New Zealand First is now working on legislation to amend the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act." That was Winston Peters on 23 March. Well if he's worked on it he's had a year and he's done nothing. It should be here today and where is the New Zealand First Party when it comes to their chance to put it in front?I guess there's some other issues. The second issue was about regulating large-scale processors. This is a really important submission from Fonterra because there are some large-scale processors that get regulated milk from Fonterra and they no longer wish to do that in some cases because these companies are now able to sustain operations on their own two feet. I ask the New Zealand First Party: how can you in good conscience take away that provision that will enable companies like Synlait Open Country Dairy Yashili Oceania Dairy which are foreign-owned to now have that regulated milker application still apply to them because that bill was taking away the ability for those companies to have regulated milk for ever and a day at a certain price and the New Zealand First Party has taken away that opportunity.There's another great quote I see from New Zealand First and this was Winston Peters in the Waikato Times on 6 March. He said "New Zealand First will not be so craven. Our policy recognises that regulated milk is an asset to this country … While it is positive Fonterra will … get control of its burgeoning milk pool in 2018 … with discretion over taking milk from new dairy conversions we would ensure that 'regulated milk' only goes to New Zealand-owned processors." Where is New Zealand First making sure that that happens in this bill today because they are taking out the very regulation by not enabling the full bill that was proposed earlier to come into fruition today and that means that foreign-owned processors will have their chance to take milk out of the New Zealand economy.This bill is an attack on dairy farmers. Farmers need to be worried. Can they trust a Minister that has let a disease go through this whole country now—that started in the South Island—a Minister sitting over there that has had responsibility and has let it spread through this country? Can they trust a Minister that has stripped irrigation proposals from dairy farmers and other farmers going ahead in this country? Can we have a Minister that backtracked on mānuka honey when he found that he'd gone too far and had to change his mind?We cannot trust Labour and the Green Party and the New Zealand First Party to dictate the future of New Zealand's biggest industry. This bill is an attack on that industry and is just a method for them to go out and review everything in the dairy sector. It is a blatant attack on farmers and their businesses. There is no way that farmers should trust the Green Party to be involved in their future there is no way that they should trust the Labour Government to be involved in their future and there is no way they should trust the New Zealand First Party to be involved in their future. All those parties have indicated a preference to hurt dairying and New Zealand agricultural production and this bill is an attempt by them to cover that up. It is part of the plan to take away any ability for New Zealand's biggest industry to have a voice in the legislation that governs them and secondly it is an attempt to extend the rules of the DIRA away from what it was set up to do which was to look at the percentages of milk that would flow to certain companies and look at how milk supply would be picked up by Fonterra and other companies and now it is being used as the proxy for an attack on environmental and land use changes.That is the true agenda of the Labour Government that is being seen here today. That is why they are going into urgency. The only reason the Labour Government is going into urgency is because they know that this is bad for our biggest industry. They can go through a normal process and if they really want to support the dairy industry why don't they do the other parts of the bill that were originally part of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act? They will not do that because they are not supporting dairying.This is an attack on dairy farmers this is an attack on land use and don't think it's going to stop at dairy farmers. Once they set these rules around land use that applies to horticulture. It applies to other landowners throughout the country as you've seen in the Waikato example. This is an attack on property rights. This is an attack on the ability of people to actually own and run their own businesses. This is a blatant attack by the urban elite on the rural communities that actually make this country go forward.This bill should not pass in the Parliament. If it does then that party has set up the agenda to take away the rights of New Zealanders and that just fits in with their complete agenda as we've seen in the last few months."