RICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Kia ora, Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of the Greens to speak on the Plant Variety Rights Bill, first reading. I want to acknowledge the member to my left, Rachel Brooking, who has given a very extensive report on some of the clauses that the bill covers; so I will try to keep my contributions to just our Green Party position on the bill. But, in summary, this bill will modernise New Zealand's plant variety rights regime, which is a fixed-term intellectual property right granted to plant breeders over varieties they develop. The Green Party strongly supports the proposed kaitiaki relationship considerations, and we actually do think that the principle of bringing these into legislation has a lot of merit and we're really excited to debate these and discuss with stakeholders at select committee, but we do think that the appropriate course of action for this change is in wider legislation protecting taonga species from bioprospecting, as Wai 262 may have led us to. This issue can be addressed without also extending intellectual property rights to the detriment of farmers or consumers.