Live export subjects animals to cruel and inhumane conditions with few safeguards for their welfare. Once overseas, animals are outside our jurisdiction, and New Zealand cannot guarantee their safety and humane treatment. Several high-profile and tragic incidents over the years at sea and at destination have highlighted the validity of these concerns. The practice is also a significant ongoing risk to New Zealand's international reputation, and like everyone around the House, I acknowledge those lives—human lives—that have been lost in the transport of live exports as well, and noting that in the last Parliament, our spokesperson Gareth Hughes, who's now on the board of Save Animals from Exploitation, brought this up a number of times in the media, recognising the sometimes appalling conditions that workers have on some of those ships as well, but also the impacts on animals. So we would have liked to have this banned years ago, and also to not have the transition period, but we are where we are right now.