So the purpose of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act in section 4 is "to protect the environment, and the health and safety of people and communities, by preventing [and] managing the adverse effects of hazardous substances and new organisms". I'd like to correct the misrepresentations by Stuart Smith: the Green Party is not looking forward to encouraging the use of GMOs. I think he was being sarcastic. To protect human wellbeing and nature, we need to have a really robust assessment system for chemicals, for their impacts and whether particular substances should be able to be used, in the first instance, by whom, and under what conditions. We need a similarly robust system for assessing the sites where they're used and stored. We need solid, reliable information on the transport, use, and disposal of hazardous substances, a track and trace system to understand where they are and what volumes are in storage and in use around New Zealand from the time that they're imported or manufactured here through that whole transport, use, and disposal system. That is something we do not currently have. 