Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Madam Chair. One thing that I will agree on with the last speaker is that yes this is the most important of the appropriations. While I don't sit on the Primary Production Committee I did for three years and I'm never far away. To put a quote in place before I get on with the appropriations as I turned up at the Mystery Creek Field Days in my electorate Mark Patterson said Oh am I ever going to go to an industry event where I don't see you?"—I'm not referring to you Madam Chair—and I said "Never." So there you go.I want to speak about M. bovis to start off with because that's taking up obviously the lion's share of the funding as we go forward. We've all got to get in and support this phased eradication—at least our one shot at it. We're all going to be also very carefully watching this spring time as we work through this most stressful of times because one of the things that I've said to the Minister and will continue to say to the Minister is we must know where the off-ramps are. We do hope we can eradicate this disease but if we get to a point where we realise that we have lost the game in terms of dollars we need to be realistic. We don't want to be spending $900 million and then finding out that we've actually lost the battle. So it's really important that we keep a very very solid handle on that.I also want to make mention of those farmers out there that are going through that process. I have had lots of calls I have had lots of emails and I've spoken to a lot of people and it's been a very very hard time—not just with the disease and not just having to go through the loss of their cows and the culling of their cows but it does need to be noted that there have been delays in compensation. There have been times when the timing of the culls of those cows has actually made a difference to the farmers and we're noticing it right now particularly when they're in that calving time.It hasn't always been the clearest of situations. Moving forward it has got clearer and I thank everyone for the clarity of at least knowing where we're heading but I can tell you that the rural support trusts have picked up a lot of people and I do want to put a call out to all of those people who work tirelessly in the rural support trusts. I know Neil Bateup very well just to mention a couple of names and Mike Green is another one who's in our local area and they work absolutely tirelessly.I'd like to mention OVERSEER because I have noted that in the last Budget there was money put forward for OVERSEER. Now OVERSEER's been one of those programs that's had its glitches for quite some time. It's actually on a general purpose sort of kind of accurate when you put it all together but by farm and per farm it's actually not so accurate and quite difficult to use. It's good to see funding go into that but I think we need to think about the wider purpose of OVERSEER as well because OVERSEER really if you look at the end result of what we want from OVERSEER we actually want cleaner waterways. There is a difference in what councils are doing around the country. We've got some councils that are using OVERSEER to measure. We've got other councils who are actually looking at what the water quality is and then working backwards from the quality of the water to see what needs to be done. So I think OVERSEER is a tool and I think we can still improve it but we shouldn't overplay it because it will be one tool in a tool box of things that are effective for cleaning up our waterways.On that I was very pleased to hear the conversation before about water storage. We're talking about primary industries now we're talking about water storage and we're talking about the estimates around catchments. I do hope when we continue to talk about water storage that we actually talk about water storage in terms of communities rather than just the old story that it's just about farming and it's just for farmers because it's for the environment and it's for the people who live in the town and we are not short of water in this country; we are just short of water storage.The other thing I would like to talk about is a little bit about forestry in the short time that I've got left. There are lots of conversations going on about how many trees we're going to plant. I think we need to think a lot more about rural proofing and the roads that those trees are going to be carted out on in the future and all the other dynamics that go around trees. We've seen some quite bad events in the eastern North Island recently. Thank you Madam Chair."