Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Thank you Mr Chair. I'm pleased to speak on this annual review debate for the primary sector. As a member of the Primary Production Committee we definitely know how important our primary sectors are to regional New Zealand but also in terms of the export revenues that they generate for Aotearoa as well.As we've heard in previous contributions we reviewed a number of entities from ministries through to statutory boards through to State-owned enterprises and State-owned companies. So it was the full variety of different Crown entities that came under our purview. Just touching on certain entities that we reviewed I do want to focus on the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) first up. I want to acknowledge the Minister and also Martyn Dunne and the team at MPI who gave us a thorough background into the work that has been going on—the extensive work that is going on—to combat the outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis. It was heartening to know that everything that can be thrown at it is being thrown at it. Now of course we can stand here in hindsight and say What happened? What went wrong? What were the failings in our biosecurity system?" and I'm sure those questions will be answered in due course. But in terms of the immediate work that was going on right from the onset of that outbreak I can only just give my commendation to MPI for the work that's going on and is still going on albeit now to quite a drastic culling stage. Again we need to do all that we can to make sure that we eradicate that virus from our primary sector.That also spans other incursions. We've got myrtle rust and we've got—I'm thinking of the oysters in Southland with Bonamia ostreae. It is a fact of life that our defences are always under attack and some nasties do get through our systems. I guess hopefully we can ensure that our Ministry for Primary Industries and our whole biosecurity system learn from these incursions and better bolster our defences to ensure that we can keep as many of them at bay. I know this is dear to Minister O'Connor and I know that he'll be—and is—working very hard to ensure that we strengthen those pā defences as I like to say.In my remaining time I also want to cover a couple of other entities that we reviewed. One such one is Landcorp Farming. Now I guess Landcorp Farming doesn't really have that sort of sizzle or razzmatazz as other State-owned enterprises have. It has been doing it tough. It is in the primary sector. It has a range of a variety of farms right up and down the length and breadth of the country. It was disappointing that yet again whilst there was an operating profit there were no dividends paid to the Crown. It has been I think some six years since a dividend has been paid but there were other priorities I guess for that company on its balance sheet.But I do look forward and this came out of the discussions—Landcorp has been working for the past few years on developing a brand called Pāmu and I've been asking in the past couple of reviews why haven't they changed the name of Landcorp to Pāmu. If you are going to be going through a transformation and wanting to adopt all of these new brand names I think they should go the full distance and make sure that that is effected. Again names like Landcorp hearken back to the Rogernomics era of the 1980s and certainly I guess if the company is intending to move with the times and to go through this transformation of being more focused on value-add both on-farm and also through to market the adoption of that name would be appropriate. I understand that discussions will be taking place with the relevant Ministers to give effect to that. So yes I do commend this debate thus far."