Cameron MarkMARK CAMERON (ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker—to speak to the Vote and appropriations in the Budget for primary industries agri all things forestry biosecurity and food safety. Minister if you're a rural person you're affronted by the vacuous and asinine nature of this $1.1 billion appropriated in that Vote. It speaks to $176 million for policy design and initiatives. Trying to reconcile that when you're a rural New Zealander affronted by all the nonsense that the rural sector is trying to digest—policies in and around on-farm management; emissions control what that looks like; the development of methane mitigation technologies. Well let's delve into this: $9.4 million extra in that $176 million in this year alone. Gracious me! The Minister by virtue is receiving an increase of $9 million extra to develop policies and yet by virtue if you were to argue and ask of any rural New Zealander how they feel about outcomes they would wager you they are significantly worse.Cameras on boats: $68 million with a fisheries Vote appropriation of $100 million—an increase I believe of nearly $8 million in the Vote alone this year. From proof of concept 2019 to now there were 300 cameras on boats proposed and yet here we see 35 to 40 that are installed with 15 operationalised and data-sharing: again an exorbitant amount of money and outcomes for the industry when they are by virtue helping themselves design their own regulation—certainly vacuous.And on the list goes. A roll-back of funding in—yes reconcile that: a roll-back in funding for biosecurity. Now I'm trying to reconcile that with an industry that has been confronted with all manner of biosecurity threats here already trying to deal with Caulerpa and gold clams an organism that could actually decimate the aquaculture industry. Now that industry alone has been proposed by many to be worth hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in the coming decade. A $6.9 million decrease in biosecurity monitoring and clearance—now again I'm trying to reconcile that with all the threats that this country faces: biosecurity coming through our border M. bovis and foot-and-mouth scares. Now foot-and-mouth would absolutely decimate rural New Zealand. We're cognisant of it. Every week I receive emails about the threats which are literally one plane ride away and yet here we see a roll-back of biosecurity monitoring and clearance. Decreased funding for expenditure arguably is in the most sensible areas as our biosecurity space but we've pulled that back by as I say $7 million.There is a myriad of things that the rural sector is affronted by. Emissions pricing scheme on-farm freshwater plans—what on earth does that look like?—fisheries and the rural sector: a lot of rural people are fishermen; they're affronted by the development of regulations to come on the back of cameras on boats.Again I leave this remark for this House when I speak to my fellow colleagues here representing rural New Zealand: the largest sum I have ever seen on policy design is this and yet the outcomes I wager anyone are perverse—$176 million. Go anywhere in rural New Zealand and ask them what their rural confidence is or the lack thereof and they will categorically tell you it has never been so bad. I wonder where this $176 million is actually going and if the advice is being heeded.