van de Molen TimTIM VAN DE MOLEN (National—Waikato): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's amazing to think that we're here talking about this bill a bill that was not asked for by the industry that the industry had no idea was actually coming and now that it has come the industry is strongly opposing. But nevertheless we heard from the Green Party that this was an important opportunity to professionalise the industry which is actually code for bring in Government control and regulate the bejesus out of it" and that's what we're seeing come through in this particular bill. There is no need for this. There was a total lack of consultation. The regulation impact will actually be far reaching and impose unnecessary compliance costs and issues arising out of that. It requires all scientists all consultants—basically anyone involved in the industry; machine operators for example—they'll all have to be registered as a result of this as well. So it's been poorly thought through and that's no surprise when we look at the process it's followed where it's been rushed through the first reading in Budget urgency bizarrely; a very truncated select committee process and we've heard about that from Erica Stanford—and actually I thought it was really indicative of the high level of feeling that number of submitters being able to get themselves in order to make a submission on this in a very short manner. An overwhelming opposition to it shows that it was not wanted. I guess as reflected through the fact there was no consultation if those people involved in the industry those key people at the coalface had actually been approached then it would have been very clear to the Minister there was not widespread support for this piece of legislation. That select committee process is something we've seen a disappointing trend of from this Government and it goes to me to the fundamental issue which is around the Government's arrogance that they know best for all of these industries. "Stuff what the industry themselves have to say about it; the Government knows best." That seems to be the ethos on the other side of the House and we're seeing time after time bills are rushed through the process unnecessarily and as a result we end up with something that does not align with what industry wants. Often we end up with errors and we've seen a litany of those over the last few weeks especially yesterday and last week in terms of some of the legislation that's been passed through.One of the concerns that I had around this particular select committee process as well was the fact that Government MPs opposed bringing in Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials to give a detailed insight of the potential impact this has on our trading agreements through the World Trade Organization. That's a really important step. We are a trading nation. We rely heavily on those international agreements. For the Government to oppose getting that sort of advice is outrageous. I cannot understand their position on that and it's simply unacceptable. The industry deserves that sort of representation especially in a truncated process like this and we simply haven't seen it.Effectively this bill is just enabling the Government to create regulations to control where and when growers supply the market and that could potentially have impacts on our trade agreements. Dr Duncan Webb: Read the bill.TIM VAN DE MOLEN: And the member on the other side of the House might speak glibly about that but that is a serious consideration for us from a trading perspective. The compulsory registration—there are major issues within this and we've seen that highlighted by submitters throughout the process.Yet again it seems that they have gone off half-cocked on a piece of legislation at the whim of Mr Jones who is actively trying to win a seat up North where there are forestry representatives—the forestry industry is an important part of it. It's a half-cocked piece of legislation that doesn't meet the actual needs—once again trying to impose something unnecessary. We saw that what was it 12 months or so ago where he was trying to roll-out a large planting plan of pines up there and it fell flat on its face and they ended up mulching all those seedlings into the ground—now just another example of the Government trying to go in thinking they know best and failing miserably. So I would suggest that the actual only value in this bill because it's been so strongly opposed by the industry is the pieces of paper that it's actually written on coming from those trees. So we do not support it. We cannot commend this sort of legislative process. It is simply disrespectful to the industry. It does not meet their needs and so we oppose it."