NICOLA GRIGG: No, you'll love this Simon Watts of Northcote: 68 million for a Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) collective agreement. How is $68 million in an MPI staff, a collective agreement, considered an investment into the primary industry sector? There's all sorts of bits and pieces in there which really are quite fascinating. And, I'll tell you what, the one that was quite interesting was the $338 million into the agriculture emissions reduction—that's great, but what are we going to get out of it? What are we going to get for $338 million being spent, considering there are already research institutes that New Zealand has signed up to around the world? This is clearly written by a Government that has not gone out to earn that money themselves. It's just so terrifying. What worries me the most about these large sums of money being poured in is that they are being spent on compliance and policing and enforcement and inspection right at a time when farmers are absolutely fed up to the back teeth with regulatory change, time-consuming auditing, and a very, very grey picture of a future ahead of them. And it shouldn't be like this, right at a time when this industry has earned nearly $50 billion in export receipts. We have never seen this industry earn so much money for this country, and this is why Grant Robertson can spend $38 billion of unallocated new spending. He is writing cheques that the agricultural sector is earning for him. 