Guy NathanHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): First of all can I acknowledge the previous speaker Damien O'Connor and thank him for his very kind words. Also it was great to catch up earlier on with Shane Jones. For those that—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): Sorry I should have said the question is that the motion be agreed to.Hon NATHAN GUY: Thank you Madam Speaker. As I was just saying it was good to catch up with Shane Jones earlier in the day. As I was just alluding to for those that are listening that don't know I have made an announcement today that I'm not standing for re-election in 2020. It's quite a big decision for me to make but I've been in this House for 15 years achieved an awful lot I believe and will continue to serve the people of Kāpiti and Horowhenua for the next 12 or 15 months leading up to the election. I look forward to doing other things outside of Parliament. It's been an absolute blast and a privilege and an honour.Second of all can I now make a contribution about this bill the National Animal Identification and Tracing Amendment Bill (No 2). We had the No. 1 bill—it came through the Parliament under urgency about 12 or 14 months ago. We didn't agree with the process. Finally we agreed with the changes but that should have gone to a select committee. I'm pleased to hear the Minister say that this one is going to have due process and scrutiny around it.I just want to acknowledge the Minister and say thank you for allowing your officials to come across to meet the National Party agriculture caucus members last week. We had a very good discussion with them and it gave us confidence today to support the bill. We do have some issues that we want to further flesh out in the select committee.We unfortunately aren't going to agree—or maybe fortunately depending on which way you look at it—with the Minister's second motion that he's going to move later on this evening and that is a truncated select committee period because we don't believe that we need that. I think it should be up to the select committee to get on and do the job and bring it back into the House without having the pressure of saying it needs to be brought into here by 4 November. That's all a decision that really is a political decision. The Minister will say No no. It's down to the fact that we need to get on to it." but it's because the Government is going to run out of bills in the House at the end of the year. That's what it's all about. The Primary Production Committee have the capability to get on and do this bill and give it justice and hear from those submitters. We will get some submitters.We'll get submissions from particularly the Road Transport Forum New Zealand—their members no doubt will submit and say that they are concerned about having the liability sit on them if they put an animal that isn't tagged on to a truck. We want to hear from them about their concerns. I know that a lot of modern trucking companies are now putting Halos on the back of their truck that do record animals as they go up the ramp on to the truck. Some also use wands but we've also got to think about the practicalities. A lot of these animals are loaded out at 10 o'clock at night or 2 o'clock in the morning and we just need to understand what that means for truckies who want to do the right thing that may occasionally for whatever reason not realise that an animal doesn't have a tag. We know that the system has been tested. We know it came in under 2012. It was reviewed under the National Government in 2016. We support these changes.The other important changes are about the PICA which is the person in charge—ensuring that their location links back to the animal's birthplace. We think that's fair. Also it lifts the penalties as the Minister has talked about from $10000 to $100000 for individuals and from $20000 to $200000 for companies. We think that's fair and reasonable. We do have a concern that we will no doubt flesh out and talk to the Minister's officials in the select committee process about their access to National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) data and who owns that data and when it's available and to whom. They are signalling that it will be available to public sector organisations. We probably think that's fair and reasonable but we would hate to think that the ENGOs had access to this data. Also we understand the implications of an animal being found on the weekend and ending up at a local pound and potentially those council staff wanting to know where that animal has come from. So as I understand it they will have the ability to ring the Ministry for Primary Industries' (MPI's) 0800 number and get that information a lot quicker than possible now.We know out in the rural heartland that farmers have had some concerns about NAIT particularly in recent times with the slowness in the response of the 0800 number. We're pleased to hear that MPI officials have gone across to Operational Solutions for Primary Industries New Zealand (OSPRI) to help get that issue sorted out. We also know that there are some glitches in the software. We know that it's not that user-friendly. It's good to hear from officials that OSPRI are on to that and there is going to be a system upgrade so it's more user-friendly to farmers.So with those introductory remarks the National Party does support this bill. We don't support a truncated select committee process because it's really up to the select committee to do the work. Indeed it could come back earlier than what the Minister wants but we don't think it's fair to have that shackle placed on the select committee. Thank you Madam Speaker."