Grigg NicolaNICOLA GRIGG (National—Selwyn): Thank you Mr Chair for the opportunity to talk about the commencement date of this bill. I'd like to put to the Minister whether or not he's had the time or the inclination to consider my Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) under my name No 207 which seeks to extend the commencement date from 30 April 2023 through to 2024. We on this side of the House hold grave concerns for the impact and the ramification that this bill and how quickly it's coming about is going to have on rural communities particularly businesses involved in the breeding and export of cattle around the world. The SOP 207 would delay the commencement of the prohibition of live exports by about a year. This Government often talks about just transition" and we would like to see a fairer and more just transition as Mark Cameron from the ACT Party has pointed out. This is coming around very very quickly—April 2023 is less than a year away. We would think it would be just and fair to extend this ban for another year.The SOP also is written to acknowledge the haste with which this Government has made this decision and brought this bill before the House to ban live exports. We would like to see an extension of the time frame for the implementation of the prohibition. We also would like to acknowledge that the recommendations brought by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in October 2020 following the Heron review that MPI itself was very comfortable with that transition with those new animal welfare aspects and requirements that were brought in is as a temporary measure. We believe that they can still further be improved on and we will discuss those later in further submissions to the House. But the reason that we are seeking this extension is firstly to recognise that this industry which is wide ranging is going to be far more vastly affected than any evidence that has been presented to the Primary Production Committee by either the Minister the Government or indeed the Ministry for Primary Industries. As I mentioned in my first submission earlier an Infometrics report has blown out of the water the Government claim that this is just a $261 million industry. It is in fact a $475 million per annum industry.We understand via the Infometrics report that it is going to impact almost 2900 farms and that includes many around South Canterbury where I come from. It is going to have a massive impact on the GDP of this nation. It is estimated to cost about $150 per household on average a year in terms of impacting our GDP. And as the Minister for Trade the Minister for Primary Industries will also understand how very important our export industry is and how every measure must be taken to be able to bolster our sales offshore. We would submit to the Minister this afternoon that by extending this commencement date by another year at least this will give these businesses some time to fulfil contracts to be able to meet orders to be able to complete sales.We do believe as we've said that the select committee process has been an absolute sham. It was a foregone conclusion. MPI wrote in its departmental report that it was giving effect to the Cabinet paper—that was extremely disappointing and the National Party noted that in our own minority view in the select committee report. We do believe that those submitters given that the vast majority of them were ignored should at least be given the respect of a further year to stretch this thing out so that they can come up with some form of supplementary income to make up for the lost revenue. As we say close to half a billion dollars in wider economic impact will be lost to many rural and regional parts of New Zealand.So I ask the Minister if he could please consider my SOP 207 that will extend the time frame of this bill through to 2024 coming into effect."