Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Malo ni e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Tēnā koutou katoa. It's my pleasure as a member of the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee to speak in this third reading of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP) Amendment Bill. Firstly I want to congratulate Minister Parker for progressing this piece of legislation through the House and also his officials. I want to concur with the Hon Todd McClay that this process actually started in 2005 so it's been a long time in its gestation. But can I say today it has support mostly across the House. It was passed by a majority in the select committee but I know that the Green Party specifically do not support this agreement.What this particular bill does essentially is to amend the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Act which will enable us to ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) which was signed on 8 March this year in Chile. In doing so we will join Mexico Japan and Singapore who have progressed their domestic legislation and once ours goes through we need two more of our partners in this agreement—either Australia Brunei Canada Chile Malaysia Peru or Vietnam—for it then to come into force 60 days after that sixth country has ratified the agreement.Throughout the process I have to say we have had a lot of submissions. So I want to acknowledge the 577 submissions that we received and the 33 submitters who presented to the select committee.The issue about whether we trade or not is a moot point. The reality is we have to. We have to trade because through our trading sector we provide jobs and opportunities for our farmers our agricultural sector our horticultural sector our manufacturers—Chris Bishop: We don't have to trade.LOUISA WALL: —which essentially—We don't have to farm" says Chris Bishop. It's one of the things that we do. So the businesses that we have in New Zealand essentially now have access to a market that includes 480 million consumers. We currently in terms of our exports are—it totals $70-plus billion per annum. So the opportunity that we see as a country through trade is obviously to service those consumers and to provide better opportunities for our business owners and our sectors in New Zealand that are employing New Zealanders and contributing to our country.I do want to take the opportunity though to highlight some of the issues specifically that have been raised through this entire process about how trade necessarily needs to ensure that women are supported in the process how indigenous peoples are supported in the process of trade and how labour rights and wages need to reflect I guess everybody's contribution to the process.There are people who believe that the people who were doing all the work actually don't share in the spoils of trade. The reason I choose to focus on that is that through that CPTPP coming into force there will be the creation of specific committees that will look at those specific areas. How is the trade agenda benefiting women? How are women going to be part of this process? How can the CPTPP benefit indigenous communities? What are the specific opportunities?I think for me that's what makes this piece of legislation and this agreement comprehensive and progressive. For the first time we actually will be deliberate in our attempts to engage with sectors of society that historically possibly have missed out or their contribution has been underutilised underestimated and they haven't benefited fully as others have. So I do think that this is a new day in terms of the significance of trade and I particularly say all these things because a lot of the people who came to the committee doubted this agreement and that specific allocation of resources or the opportunities that they would get through this agreement.So I support this bill from a place of being hopeful because I am hopeful that through this agreement all the people that submitted to us who have concerns about it—and I wouldn't categorise all of them as anti-trade. I think most of them came with good intent but they actually doubt the whole trickle-down theory of economics. From their perspective too many people miss out and so if we can make sure that everybody is a beneficiary of trade through this trade agreement and set a new benchmark for trade agreements then I think we've achieved a lot.So just finally thank you to all those who have been involved in bringing this opportunity to fruition because I know it's taken as my colleague the Hon Todd McClay outlined many many hours of work by many many people and so to all of those involved I say congratulations. Thank you."