Craig Liz; Rurawhe AdrianDr LIZ CRAIG (Labour): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. It's a real pleasure to take a call on this bill. I think the problem is sitting here listening to the intensity of the debate across the other side I'm almost forgetting why we're here. Why we're here under urgency is actually for a very very simple thing. It's actually because what we're trying to do is to prevent some of the provisions of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) from expiring for us in the South Island. It's actually very very simple. What we're trying to do is provide some certainty for our farmers that Fonterra is going to continue to take their milk in 2018.I live in Southland and in Southland a lot of our farmers have been doing it really tough of late. We've had the drought just declared we've got Mycoplasma bovis and over the last couple of years the dairy prices have been up and down and a lot of our farmers are under a heck of a lot of stress. The problem is that this afternoon's scaremongering by members across this House is going to do very little to alleviate that situation.What we're actually wanting to do here is just retain the status quo until we can get a more comprehensive review of DIRA and take that uncertainty off the table. In the medium term though we shouldn't step back from that broader debate because we do need to think about what the future is for our dairy industry. I think our Minister signalled that he's going to do just that. He's going to take some time to think about our broader strategic direction.To do that though is going to take time. I'm hearing on one hand members across the House decrying the fact that we're not going to select committee and yet on the other they're saying it's going to take so long to have some consultation. But to get this right we do need to have some decent consultation. We need to talk to farmers milk processors industry leaders and communities. So we've got to have that and get it right for the futureproofing of our dairy sector moving forward.I don't think we should step back from that broader debate about the environment about land use and about how we do achieve those best outcomes for farmers and consumers and for our country. What we're talking about is thinking about the future of our dairy industry. The problem is that we're now marketing into a world market where we've got increasingly discerning consumers and they will care about our economic bottom line and how we're managing our environment.But coming back to this bill all it does is it just buys us time so that we can have a broader review that does the due process. It means that we can have that without a whole lot of the instability that would ensue if we suddenly lost the DIRA provisions in the South Island. If we do nothing we get a whole lot of problems. But preserving the status quo—what it means for our farmers is that Fonterra still has to take their milk. What that means is that they can continue to have that certainty in terms of their future planning. It also means that they can still continue to exit should they want to.The other thing that this preserves in the meantime is our current milk price monitoring regime. What that means is the Commerce Commission will still have to review how Fonterra is calculating its farm-gate milk prices. In the meantime we can have that transparency and that confidence in how Fonterra is setting its prices.The other thing with this bill is that it lines up with what the Commerce Commission was saying in 2016. They were saying that there still wasn't enough competition within the sector and that we needed to maintain things until we could have that broader review. So this bill just buys us time and it creates that stability so we can have a broader debate. I therefore commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call Andrew Falloon—five minute call.