McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Just in the few words I am going to say about the Food Safety Law Reform Bill I want firstly to commend the Hon Jo Goodhew who brought the legislation to the Primary Production Committee and the reasons for that have been well canvassed. I also commend Minister David Bennett who is now handling this piece of legislation.The select committee process which is what I will talk about in the short time I will be making a contribution to this—[Interruption] It is quite noisy. It is a bit like being in a chook run is it not? I am sure this legislation applies to the chook run as well. This short contribution I will make on the select committee stage—it was a very interesting select committee process because we had a large number of submissions some 30-odd that really were not on song I guess with the intention of the legislation but none the less they were very interesting for the select committee. They dealt with things like food labelling pesticide testing compliance costs the Trans-Pacific Partnership and all sorts of things. The compliance costs were the critical thing and the previous speaker Damien O'Connor mentioned those.We ran almost a joint select committee process I guess with the officials. We ended up with some substantive changes. One that created a great deal of discussion was removing the requirement for operators to send full copies of their risk-based plans along with all amendments to the verifiers. There was a great deal discussion in the select committee around what the select committee felt or some members of the select committee felt was some risk involved in this. We eventually got our way through that because in fact these companies that are responsible for their own food safety have a very good record in this stuff.I guess the key thing was that the Ministry for Primary Industries or whoever was reacting to any kind of a food safety risk was able to access that information very quickly. The key to a lot of the discussion that we had in the select committee was about ensuring that the person responsible was accessible to the officials and that the company had all the information required to very quickly get to the core of any problem that may arise in the future. That created quite a lot of discussion in the select committee and we eventually got to a consensus on that. There were a number of other issues that the select committee dealt with but as Minister Bennett said in his words earlier on on this topic they were all resolved in a satisfactory manner. I think the select committee process worked pretty well in that respect.The real interest in this for us I think as a country is that food safety is probably the No. 1 issue when it comes to protecting our export markets. I think the previous speaker again alluded to this. If we are not seen to be the best operators in the world then we are certainly not going to have the same access to our markets in the future. Wherever you go in the world and talk about New Zealand exports and New Zealand food food safety is absolutely the key I think to drive all of that.The changes to this legislation as a result of the whey concentrate scare I think will secure New Zealand's future to a much greater extent than we have in the past. We are now passing legislation around food safety at a rate that is commensurate really with the demands of the world. It will be very hard to keep up with those demands for food security as we move forward and for food safety because food security and food safety are slightly different things. So it is really important that we get this right and continue to get it right in the future.I want to very briefly talk about a couple of things that arose that were not relevant to this bill necessarily. They relate to country-of-origin labelling and of course the Primary Production Committee has a bill in front of it now relating to this. But there was a lot of talk about that by submitters. The other issue that there was a lot of talk about was the costs of compliance and the risk that we face I think with the costs of compliance around the potential for innovation in the food industry. Almost all of our major products in New Zealand have originally come out of a garage-type operation and it is pretty important that we enable that to continue.I am not going to take any more time on the second reading of this bill. I want to commend it to the House. I thank the select committee for the work on it right across the House and I hope this bill makes good progress through the House. Thank you.