Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I am delighted to speak at the third reading of this bill the Consumers' Right to Know (Country of Origin of Food) Bill. I too want to acknowledge Mr Gareth Hughes for bringing this bill to the House but also the originator of this bill Mr Steffan Browning from Marlborough—mighty province—for the work that he did. I know that this bill should be equally shared between Mr Hughes and Mr Browning.It has been a long passage for this bill but it was actually a very rewarding exercise for us as the Primary Production Committee to actually work through all the issues here. As we've heard we started with a stand-alone bill. It had quite a lot of issues with it. We heard many submissions. We had excellent advice from our advisers and I do want to acknowledge all of the officials and advisers that were constantly asked. We were testing them every step of the way to try and come up with new things or testing some ideas that we had.In the end result I think we have a very fine piece of legislation. We're amending the Fair Trading Act to provide for these new consumer information standards. The actual details in terms of how the country of origin labelling will actually roll out will be set out in regulations and it will be staggered so the industry will have time to adopt these new labelling requirements.I think we've had all of the different interests in our minds in the crafting of what we've got now with this bill. It's all about the consumer. It's all about giving the consumer the information about the origin—where their food comes from. I believe that we have made a very bold step with this legislation in ensuring that that will now happen. It will happen. There will be labelling. Sure we're not going to be covering every possible food item—the many thousands that are on our shelves—but it will apply to single-ingredient foods that are fresh or frozen and unprocessed or minimally processed. That was one of the big tasks of our committee: where do we draw the line? How large or how small? How many foods do we capture? But I think we actually struck a really good starting point by the single-ingredient foodsI had a stroke of inspiration when we were in the select committee—probably the one and only contribution I've really made—when I actually came up with: what about frozen foods? That opened up a whole new dimension of our discussions because prior to that it was all about fresh foods. So that sort of enlarged it to frozen single-ingredient foods. I like to think that my little frozo-contribution" has helped improve the bill that we have here today.This is a very welcome piece of legislation. I want to acknowledge all the contributions that have been made so far especially Mr van de Molen the new National Party thespian. I think he'll rival Andrew Bayly in terms of the presence that he has in the House. They've been wonderful contributions. This is worthy of a celebration—it's worthy of a celebration—and while Mr Hughes cannot enjoy pork I'm sure we'll be able to do a pot of New Zealand pork and pūhā. I'll have the pork and he can enjoy the greens. But it's worthy of a celebration because the consumers now across Aotearoa will in time know the country of origin of a fair amount of foods that they purchase every day—where they will be coming from. Thank you. Kia ora tātou."