Allan KiritapuKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): It's always a delight to follow the previous speaker Nathan Guy. I quite like him at a personal level if I can say so myself. He's full of charisma and he can be quite compelling. But if there's anything that previous speech just informed this House it is that whilst the member may be on his way out it's very important to listen to the things that are being said in this House in order to not perpetuate misinformation.Now when the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw introduced this bill into this House this afternoon he was very clear on his instructions that the Supplementary Order Paper—that discusses all those matters that the prior member wanted to have discussed—would be put before the select committee. So I want to commend the Minister on his foresight and I guess ensuring that the broader public have the ability to do that.The second statement—or misfact"—was my colleague from New Zealand First Mark Patterson's position when he gave his remarks in this House.Mark Patterson: Right the record.KIRITAPU ALLAN: Now he was—yeah I've got to right the record because your good name was thrown under the bus there a little bit Patsy so—sorry Mr Mark Patterson; not known as "Patsy" to anyone. [Interruption] You're welcome; Ha ha! He was very very clear in his remarks that the blunt tool of a processor fee was not useful and it would not assist to change behaviour on farm and he gave a number of examples from his own farm about the tangible costs and why the current proposal as set out here [Holds up document] and designed by the primary production leaders and that has been worked through with the Minister James Shaw and other Cabinet colleagues sets out a plan that will ensure that we can bring the net emissions down in a reasonable time frame.And I think—if I reflect on the remarks—the Prime Minister and the Rt Hon Winston Peters when they made their announcements about the way that Ag would be brought into the emissions trading scheme or not there was a really strong emphasis that actually you know he waka eke noa—that the future is in the hands of those that have to develop the solutions.My colleague just prior as well alluded to the fact that we do have to be pretty blunt about the fact that 47 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Aotearoa do come from the Ag sector. That's a fact that we all have to just accept on its face.When you go through the detail of this plan it's a five-year working plan that really does ensure that there is an incentive scheme that there is a regime that enables those farmers who are working diligently—and there are so many of them all throughout my electorate throughout the work and it's not just farmers; it's food producers and we are exceptional food producers—and it puts the power back in the hands of those that are doing things on the land.There's a range of investment as well that's already going into I guess trying to mitigate the impacts of agricultural emissions. Even some of the smaller industries like Horticulture NZ they're setting aside 1 million bucks per annum to focus on R & D to ensure that they can bring down their emission footprint. Beef + Lamb: they themselves are setting aside $5.4 million every year to reinvest into ensuring again that we can bring down those net agriculture emissions.Look this is a world-leading position. It's one that hasn't come about by sitting on anybody's hands. The Opposition may laugh but it's an actual fact that for nine long years we sat with a Government that did sit on their hands and failed to take action. This side of the House—Nicola Willis: Do better.KIRITAPU ALLAN: —is taking action. Nine long years to the member; she was actually working on the precinct so she knows that particularly in areas around—for ages they were doing this—climate change you know there was a real hesitancy. They signed us up to the Paris accord and had no infrastructure there to support us actually meeting those objectives. But anyway that's a story for another day.I'm really proud of the work this Government's done. I can only take my hat off to the Minister in charge of bringing these reforms through. It's a monumental piece of work and something that we can all as a generation and this House be exceptionally proud of. So I commend this bill to the House."