Guy Nathan; Williams PotoHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): Thank you for an opportunity to address what is a very important issue in the primary sector of New Zealand the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act. We've heard from the Leader of the House why this needs to be heard under urgency. Personally I don't agree. I find it disappointing that only one aspect of this bill hasn't been sent to the Primary Production Committee which it should have been. OK I get the fact that there is an expiry date at the end of May and farmers and industry want some certainty but even if it was a truncated select committee process the size of the industry—and also this particular issue affects all South Island farmers and processors. Surely the Government who stand up in this House talking about openness and honesty and transparency would want to hear from those farmers and industry representatives of the South Island. Instead we are here under urgency debating an issue that is really important—the future of the primary sector and growing exports underpinned by the New Zealand dairy industry. Instead we're going to be debating it over the next hour or three—or perhaps into tomorrow because it is worthy of decent consideration.What I'm also really disappointed about is there's been a huge amount of effort put in over the last two years to get the National Party's Government bill on the table and yes we didn't have enough time to get it through last year but effectively the Minister has gutted that bill. He's going to go back out and consult and probably get 105 submissions which we received in Government. The Commerce Commission did a huge amount of work; a very detailed report. Ministry for Primary Industries officials—when I was the Minister they went out and had a whole lot of meetings up and down the country. We heard from industry we heard from farmers and now this open and new and transparent Government want to ram this very small piece of legislation—but important—through under urgency.Hon Shane Jones: Minor detail.Hon NATHAN GUY: And what we—that's what Shane Jones talks about all the rhetoric and we wait for his $1 billion fund. And it's all going to be about the minor detail because—maybe at some stage the detail will turn up. It will be a bit like the trees: no trees planted and we wait and we wait and we wait.Hon Shane Jones: Water storage.Hon NATHAN GUY: Yeah well we look forward to hearing about water storage in the South Island too Mr Jones. It's great that you're going to stand up to the greenies and to Labour on that one but once again that's your rhetoric and we want to see the detail.Getting back to the importance of this bill and what the Minister has decided to do; that is to kick off anything that is contentious to a review. Finally we heard from Minister O'Connor that it's going to be a 12-month review period. But what we don't know is what are the terms of reference for the review. Is it going to have a look at foreign ownership because we know that New Zealand First and Shane Jones are against foreign investment into New Zealand. The Overseas Investment Office has made changes so what's going to happen to those that want to invest in New Zealand? Is that going to be included in the terms of reference? Also what is going to happen to other aspects in the terms of reference about the Dairy Core Database that LIC and Dairy New Zealand are very interested in? Also what about the domestic raw milk processors? In the previous bill it talked about farm gate and factory gate. No doubt that will need to be included in the terms of reference.What about environmental considerations? I bet the Greens' tentacles want to get right into that and move this review scope way broader than what it should be. And those in the dairy industry will remember back: it was only a few months ago that Labour and the Greens used the New Zealand dairy industry as a whipping boy in the election campaign. So I will be very mindful of that fact if the terms of reference have the breadth where it gets way out into environmental issues beyond the scope of this bill that we are debating in urgency today. I guess they'll also want to get into climate change which will be another ongoing issue that the Greens in this new Government are keen to see more happening.What about value and volume? If you think about value the previous National Government backed the New Zealand dairy industry through the Primary Growth Partnership to ensure that more commodities went into the value-add processing stream. We need to just think about down at Clandeboye in the South Island where Fonterra has made a massive investment into mozzarella cheese. It used to take months to process; now it takes hours and it's into the market. This is where the National Government invested and partnered with industry to ensure that the dairy industry could move out of commodities into value-add. So I would expect Mr O'Connor that the terms of reference would have a look at value and volume.Will it indeed have a look at export markets? You had to drag your coalition—[Interruption] Not you Madam Assistant Speaker; the Minister. The Minister had to drag his coalition partner New Zealand First—and I look forward to Mark Patterson's contribution. About the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement he had to drag them across the line to actually support it. So we'd be keen to see about export markets. Are they going to be included? This review could indeed be bigger than Ben-Hur. The reason I raise it is that we just don't know.Who is going to lead the review? Is it going to be the hundreds of officials that want to roll their sleeves up in the Ministry for Primary Industries and get stuck in? What about the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment? Will they be getting their tentacles in? What about Treasury? Then of course the people that matter are the industry and the farmers. Will they be consulted through this review? Will they Minister?Hon Damien O'Connor: Absolutely.Hon NATHAN GUY: Yes. That's good—that's good. That's a good commitment from the Minister today that they will be consulted. I guess they already have been but this review—I'm worried in indicating that it could indeed be a very wide review. Who actually is going to lead it? That's what we want to hear. Do we know Minister?Hon Damien O'Connor: Watch this space.Hon NATHAN GUY: There we go—yet another review. I think we're up to number 12 or 13 in this new Government—might be approaching 20 shortly. Surely they'd want to get some independence into this review. They might want to go and get a figurehead so that it's not just done by officialdom because the fear out there in industry is they're going to get dealt to by Labour and the Greens through this process and that is a big fear with this review. So we on this side of the House the loyal Opposition will be very focused on the fact that there's not enough detail on the terms of reference. The other very very interesting fact is open entry/exit. That's going to be an issue that has to be covered in this review. So I look forward to more detail on this review.We shouldn't forget that when the dairy industry is going well so is the New Zealand economy. Fifty thousand jobs depending on what year it's counted depending on the payout. Whether it's six bucks four dollars or potentially eight dollars depends on the significance of the export returns into New Zealand. It could be $18 billion. It could be $14 billion. It is significant: 50000 jobs. And these aren't just farmers and their workers; these are processing jobs as well. These are scientists. These are people that are helping innovation and growing our exports into these very important international markets. So the fear out there amongst those 50000 employees is: where is this review going to end up? I support the concerns that I hear from them. That's why over this period of the next few hours potentially into tomorrow we will explore through the Minister and try and understand more about these terms of reference.Also what will be very interesting to note is: will speakers in the Parliament today get up and acknowledge that over the last 15 years our dairy farmers have done a huge amount to support environmental responsibility and sustainability? Excluding dairy cattle from waterways over 24000 kilometres—it might be 26000 kilometres—gets you from Wellington to Chicago and back again on a plane. That's the investment that the New Zealand dairy industry has made and I'm sure speakers from other political parties standing on the opposite side of me this evening won't even take a moment to acknowledge that the New Zealand dairy industry—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): I apologise to the member. Your time has expired. Thank you.