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Biotechnology is a wide subject, the technology of life.

Mr Speaker, I move that Standing Order 256 be suspended to permit the Finance and Expenditure Committee, in its consideration of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Genetically Modified Organisms) Amendment Bill

Earlier this month, the Government announced its detailed decisions on the report and recommendations of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification.

“HSNO – Let’s make it work better”.

Gives me an opportunity to acknowledge the partnership, which exists between MAF's biosecurity operations and yourselves as veterinarians.

Good morning, and let me add my welcome to this workshop to that of our sponsors for today’s session, the Northern Employers and Manufacturers Association. This is the first of five workshops designed to help us all come to grips with operating the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act.

MAC's Preliminary Report - Biowhat? - was launched in March this year on Bill Garland's farm in the Waikato. It was a beautiful day and there was a real air of optimism that John Kneebone and his team would find a relatively painless way through the thicket of thorny issues that surround biodiversity conservation.

Nganeko was the Claimant in the Manukau Claim to the Waitangi Tribunal that in 1985 set a new benchmark for the place of her people in their homeland and the protection of the natural resources of the Manukau Harbour