June 12, 2024 • 5 mins
The Act Party leader joins The Country at Fieldays to announce a review of how new farming and horticulture products are approved. He then says he and Winston Peters are “getting on like a house on fire” and comments on MPI’s latest Situation Outlook for Primary Industries report.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are going to kick off with a very breathless act.
Party leader David Seymour he has a major policy announcement
his PR staff where I'm Jamie macaiboy.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The way.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
His PR staff were meant to send me an email,
they didn't. David, like the rest of the people gathered
here to here, you're offering, what is this major policy announcement?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, we like the last government full of surprises. The
difference is our surprise is actually good for roal. New
Zealand said are bad. And the thing we're outsting today
between me as the Minister for Regulation, Penny Simmons an
environment and Andrew Hogart in food safety, we're talking about the
animal compounds and veterinary medicines where anything you want to
(00:43):
bring in to put on an animal or a plant
you can have to wait for up to nine years
to get consent and approval. In between the MPI and
the EPA, they managed to royally bugger it up. And
in some instances there's products that New Zealand agriculture and
farmers need where the manufacturer offshore reaches the end of
(01:04):
the line, they start a new product that one's not
consented in time and we end up with nothing at all.
So you know, we started with the Ministry of Regulation
going through early childhood education, which is the most hilariously
and dangerously over regulated sector of the economy. Now we're
getting into animal compounds and veterinary medicines, and I think
it's a good example of where we're trying to actually
(01:25):
make it easier to do business, because life should be easier,
it should get more enjoyable each year. You shouldn't feel
like you've made public public enemy number one and dumped
on year after yet.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So talking about making business enjoyable, how are you getting
on with Winston? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Look, I think we're actually getting on like a house
on fire. And the thing is that the previous government
did leave the house on fire. So what we're doing
is they're actually joined together. If you can picture us,
where our special reflective flaps are coming down from our helmets,
our axes and our hoses, our fireproof equipment trying to
(02:02):
put out the fire that's been lit. Through this economy
less waste, less spending, less red tape and regulation, so
we can return a little bit of joy to life
and people can actually get on with making a difference.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, I'm probably going to ask Nichola Willis who's up next?
She said, By the way, David, you're only the curtain raiser.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Did she?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, I tell you what, I've been waiting for her
to develop some wit, and we might finally be getting.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There to be fair finances. You're probably known for their wits,
nor should they be.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, I tell you what, Nichola Weiller certainly has her
wits about her, and she's had to have because she's
taken one hell of a hospital pass. In fact, all
of us have. You've got a softening economy, softening text,
take ongoing domestic in fation, massive fiscal cliffs. We had
to find two billion dollars just to keep the medicines
people expect going on. And yet we've actually managed to
(02:52):
balance a budget within the constraints we set and we've
committed to a very very small operating allowance. So basically,
we're gonna have to find two or three percent extra
efficiency in the government each and every year that we've
set out on the four year forecast. Now you compare
that with the previous guys, who amazingly managed to spend
(03:15):
more and more money and get less and less in fact,
I'm sort of in a way admir Grant Robertson, because
you know, if he said, look, I bet you I
can piss away one hundred billion and get nothing for it,
I'd be like, no, mate, Honestly, if you spend one
hundred billion, I reckon you will get something for it.
But he's a genius. He managed to get absolutely nothing.
And if you wonder why he got put in charge
(03:37):
of a university with a massive debt problem, well his
CV was impeccable.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Now, I don't know if you've caught up with the
situation and outlock report released by MPI this morning. Primary
sector export revenue down five percent to fifty four point
six billion, dairy revenue down seven percent, Sheep and be
down six percent, and gee, I think that might be
(04:03):
a conservative number as well. It's tough out there.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, And I only I could counselor I can give
is You know, Saint Francis of ASISI I think he's
the one that said, God make me chase but not yet.
We also said, you give me the courage to change
the things I can, the serenity to accept the things
I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference So
there's some stuff going on in the global economy. There's
(04:27):
some stuff going on that's negative momentum from the previous
government's fiscal track. There's some stuff that's just tough that
is hard to change. The good news is it's cyclical,
it will come back. On the other hand, there are
things that we can change. So are we going to
have resource management laws? Are we going to have infrastructure
funding and financing. Are we going to make it easier
(04:48):
to get agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines. Are we dealing
to our archaic genetic modification laws that basically allowed the
Green Party to anchor us in the twentieth seas by
twenty twenty four. Yeah, so we're dealing to all of that.
We're also making sure, by being financially responsible, the government's
taking a smaller slice so everyone else can have more cake.
(05:10):
So we're dealing with the things we can change, and
I think backing the most innovative and efficient agricultural sector
in the world will pay big dividends not only for
the people in that sector, but for the rest of
the country, even if they don't always appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Okay, there we go. Act Leader David Seymour kicking off
the country in a breathless manner. Thank you for getting here,
very entertaining.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Thank you very much. Jamie, it's great to see you
in person.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, well, there we go.
We are going to kick off with a very breathless act.
Party leader David Seymour he has a major policy announcement
his PR staff where I'm Jamie macaiboy.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The way.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
His PR staff were meant to send me an email,
they didn't. David, like the rest of the people gathered
here to here, you're offering, what is this major policy announcement?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, we like the last government full of surprises. The
difference is our surprise is actually good for roal. New
Zealand said are bad. And the thing we're outsting today
between me as the Minister for Regulation, Penny Simmons an
environment and Andrew Hogart in food safety, we're talking about the
animal compounds and veterinary medicines where anything you want to
(00:43):
bring in to put on an animal or a plant
you can have to wait for up to nine years
to get consent and approval. In between the MPI and
the EPA, they managed to royally bugger it up. And
in some instances there's products that New Zealand agriculture and
farmers need where the manufacturer offshore reaches the end of
(01:04):
the line, they start a new product that one's not
consented in time and we end up with nothing at all.
So you know, we started with the Ministry of Regulation
going through early childhood education, which is the most hilariously
and dangerously over regulated sector of the economy. Now we're
getting into animal compounds and veterinary medicines, and I think
it's a good example of where we're trying to actually
(01:25):
make it easier to do business, because life should be easier,
it should get more enjoyable each year. You shouldn't feel
like you've made public public enemy number one and dumped
on year after yet.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So talking about making business enjoyable, how are you getting
on with Winston? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Look, I think we're actually getting on like a house
on fire. And the thing is that the previous government
did leave the house on fire. So what we're doing
is they're actually joined together. If you can picture us,
where our special reflective flaps are coming down from our helmets,
our axes and our hoses, our fireproof equipment trying to
(02:02):
put out the fire that's been lit. Through this economy
less waste, less spending, less red tape and regulation, so
we can return a little bit of joy to life
and people can actually get on with making a difference.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, I'm probably going to ask Nichola Willis who's up next?
She said, By the way, David, you're only the curtain raiser.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Did she?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, I tell you what, I've been waiting for her
to develop some wit, and we might finally be getting.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There to be fair finances. You're probably known for their wits,
nor should they be.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, I tell you what, Nichola Weiller certainly has her
wits about her, and she's had to have because she's
taken one hell of a hospital pass. In fact, all
of us have. You've got a softening economy, softening text,
take ongoing domestic in fation, massive fiscal cliffs. We had
to find two billion dollars just to keep the medicines
people expect going on. And yet we've actually managed to
(02:52):
balance a budget within the constraints we set and we've
committed to a very very small operating allowance. So basically,
we're gonna have to find two or three percent extra
efficiency in the government each and every year that we've
set out on the four year forecast. Now you compare
that with the previous guys, who amazingly managed to spend
(03:15):
more and more money and get less and less in fact,
I'm sort of in a way admir Grant Robertson, because
you know, if he said, look, I bet you I
can piss away one hundred billion and get nothing for it,
I'd be like, no, mate, Honestly, if you spend one
hundred billion, I reckon you will get something for it.
But he's a genius. He managed to get absolutely nothing.
And if you wonder why he got put in charge
(03:37):
of a university with a massive debt problem, well his
CV was impeccable.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Now, I don't know if you've caught up with the
situation and outlock report released by MPI this morning. Primary
sector export revenue down five percent to fifty four point
six billion, dairy revenue down seven percent, Sheep and be
down six percent, and gee, I think that might be
(04:03):
a conservative number as well. It's tough out there.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, And I only I could counselor I can give
is You know, Saint Francis of ASISI I think he's
the one that said, God make me chase but not yet.
We also said, you give me the courage to change
the things I can, the serenity to accept the things
I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference So
there's some stuff going on in the global economy. There's
(04:27):
some stuff going on that's negative momentum from the previous
government's fiscal track. There's some stuff that's just tough that
is hard to change. The good news is it's cyclical,
it will come back. On the other hand, there are
things that we can change. So are we going to
have resource management laws? Are we going to have infrastructure
funding and financing. Are we going to make it easier
(04:48):
to get agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines. Are we dealing
to our archaic genetic modification laws that basically allowed the
Green Party to anchor us in the twentieth seas by
twenty twenty four. Yeah, so we're dealing to all of that.
We're also making sure, by being financially responsible, the government's
taking a smaller slice so everyone else can have more cake.
(05:10):
So we're dealing with the things we can change, and
I think backing the most innovative and efficient agricultural sector
in the world will pay big dividends not only for
the people in that sector, but for the rest of
the country, even if they don't always appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Okay, there we go. Act Leader David Seymour kicking off
the country in a breathless manner. Thank you for getting here,
very entertaining.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Thank you very much. Jamie, it's great to see you
in person.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, well, there we go.
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