McAnulty Kieran; Williams PotoKIERAN McANULTY (Labour): Thank you very much Madam Chair. It is an absolute delight to stand in here and speak in favour of Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 185 in Minister Andrew Little's name seeking to bring into the Crimes Act under this SOP a crime of livestock rustling. Good on the Minister for taking this on. I want to acknowledge the member Ian McKelvie one of the only gentlemen in this House who tried to bring this forward—[Interruption] I'm just pleased that people are listening.What this shows—[Interruption] Madam Chair I'm very surprised to see the other side so animated about the issue of livestock rustling when the previous Government had nine years to do it and they did nothing—absolutely nothing. So what they relied on was Ian McKelvie to come in Opposition and put forward this member's bill. And he did try. He tried his best and he got some advice to say that the attempt that he had was out of scope and he couldn't progress it any further.We were given some options during the select committee process. They said that he either had to withdraw and submit another bill or continue as it was. And both sides of the House indicated that because it was written the way it was written through no fault of Ian McKelvie's I might add it could not progress. But what this SOP shows is that collaboration can occur in this House despite the efforts that some people have seen from the other side this week walking out of select committees and wasting half an hour's time here in the previous thing.What this SOP that I hold in my hand shows is that there is the opportunity here when members were willing to do so to collaborate. So Ian McKelvie and I got together and we went to the Minister and we said Would you be willing to sponsor an SOP to introduce the crime of livestock rustling into this bill? They said that they couldn't do it because the Crimes Amendment Bill is about repealing things taking things out of the Act. So they said we couldn't do it and what we needed to do was to get leave from the House in order to be able to put this SOP forward.I think it's important to make this point for the rest of New Zealand so that they can see that the House can work together so that we can actually address what is an anomaly like the Minister said earlier that in a nation like ours that relies on agriculture with many of the members in here living in regions that rely on agriculture—in fact there's some members in here that represent despite not living there areas that rely on agriculture—that up until now there has not been a law. It is entirely consistent with the wishes of this country. The numerous people that submitted to the select committee were in favour of this. In fact as soon as the Minister submitted the SOP Federated Farmers that great union of landowners came forward and said that they were in favour of the Minister's attempts to try and address this anomaly. Making sure that this this is going to be a crime with an imprisonment term of up to seven years sends a very clear message to people that are thinking of taking away livestock from our farms. [Interruption] It is vitally important—and I'm not too sure why they're heckling. Perhaps they realised the missed opportunity of their previous term in Government. Perhaps they realise—CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): I apologise to the member. In accordance with the decision of the Business Committee for Agnes Loheni to make her maiden statement I will report the bill with progress and the committee will sit again presently.House resumed.The Chairperson reported progress on the Crimes Amendment Bill and no progress on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2018-19 Modernising Tax Administration and Remedial Matters) Bill and the Accident Compensation Amendment Bill.Report adopted."