McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to follow Rino Tirikatene. I always respect most of what he has to say. I'll have some comments to say on his friend Mr Nash a little later. First of all in this call I want to comment a bit on the breeding industry in New Zealand and how important it is to this country but I want to comment particularly on a piece of that breeding industry in the great New Zealand mare Melody Belle who on Sunday night won the New Zealand Horse of the Year. The attention she'll bring to this country will be far greater than anything that happens in this House today or tomorrow or next week interestingly. It just shows what one animal can do for New Zealand. I think her success is hugely important to New Zealand and I congratulate her connections and her breeder Marie Leicester. Out of the Manawatū it originated in Taranaki interestingly and that horse's great-great-great-grandmother was born on a dairy farm in Taranaki so it shows how important that sector is to the horse-breeding industry. I also want to briefly comment on the success of Murray Baker who's the New Zealand personality of the year in the racing industry and who does a great job for New Zealand. But before I leave this sector I just wanted to comment on a couple of things from the Minister. I was going to hand a bouquet out to the Minister for Racing but I decided that in light of someone's experience over the last few weeks it's not a great idea to hand bouquets to the Minister for Racing. He doesn't altogether appreciate them and I thought even if picked off a racecourse he might not appreciate it. But none the less I was pretty keen because there's not an opportunity to bring this industry into its real place which is primary production because it is a great part of our breeding sector and I think Mr Tirikatene talked about the contribution that sector makes to New Zealand. This part of the sector makes about a $1.6 billion contribution to the New Zealand primary industry sector. So having done that I wanted to move on and talk a bit about the fishing sector of which I certainly have a much greater—well not a greater interest but I certainly have an interest in that. The fishing sector like much in our primary industries is under what I'd call increasing pressure to change its ways and to I guess perform in a manner that some in our society would see as appropriate. I think the fishing industry has done a great deal in recent years to bring itself to a standard that both is respected and treats its environment in a manner that it should. There is always with these sectors room to improve as there probably is with all parts of our primary sector but we're working very hard to do that in those sectors and I think that the fishing industry plays a very important part in our primary sector—for a couple of reasons actually. One is that we have one of the largest economic zones in the world and that is primarily ocean. So we have an opportunity in New Zealand to make an industry work better than anyone else in the world can. The issue I want to talk about here relates to what I'd call the public-private good and how we appropriate funding and how we use that funding in our particular sectors. I think the fishing sector is a little different from a lot of our sectors in that it has a very very large recreational portion to it. That recreational portion currently has no charge on it and I would never advocate that it should have a charge on it but none the less the Government has a responsibility in my view to fund the research and development around our recreational sector. I think at the same time they have a responsibility to ensure that our commercial sector is operating in a manner that's sustainable and that can be assured for the future. The reason that there is a shortage of funding going into that sector and that I think we should consider in the future the way that what I'd call the public-private good part of that funding balance is achieved is because of the huge recreational sector—the huge interests that they have in being able to catch a fish on a daily basis. Because of the way in which our commercial sector currently funds a lot of their research and development they go beyond the norm in a lot of ways to fund what goes on in that industry and there's increasing pressure on that. We have a very large economic zone and then we have some species in that area that need protection but not at all costs. I think that's where we've got to get the balance right and I think that with respect to our Minister he needs to make some decisions. He doesn't currently make those decisions and I think he needs to make those decisions in the interests of our long-term environmental and economic future and I'd like to see that happen as we move forward. There are some species as I said that need protection but we've got to find ways of protecting them so that the rest of our society can move on and live its life with them and not in opposition to them. Thank you.