The bill was referred to the Primary Production Committee in October 2021 and was reported back to this House in April 2022. The committee received and considered 637 submissions and heard oral evidence from 33 of these submitters. We sincerely thank the members of the Primary Production Committee for their consideration of the bill in the package, but we also acknowledge the valuable input from both written and oral submitters and the considerable support the bill received from the public. The committee was split in their views and were unable to agree on whether they believed this bill should pass. Both National and ACT expressed differing views in which they believed that a focus should be made on regulatory improvement. However, we already have a world-leading regulatory system for the export of livestock, and no improvement would have been enough to protect the welfare of these animals and to protect New Zealand's reputation, and there's plenty of evidence that I have here to prove that.