GE - you'll love it!

(Nice work, Stephan. Keep it up.)

Steffan Browning: I seek leave to table a report by the Sustainability Council that shows that tens of millions of dollars of Government money has been spent on GE pasture plants, with no return.

Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There is objection.

Steffan Browning: Is he concerned that the New Zealand Crown research institutes sponsoring this conference have all seriously breached their GE field trial approval conditions?

Hon STEVEN JOYCE: No, I am not aware that that is the case, but I am concerned that the Crown research institutes periodically get attacked at their GE facilities. For example, recently, I think $100,000 worth of crops were damaged at a Scion facility by Wild Greens activists. I think that is a difficulty because that actually does create risks.

Steffan Browning: I seek leave to table the 2009 Plant and Food Research report prepared by Biosecurity New Zealand that shows that Plant and Food Research breached its own GE field trial conditions.

Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There is no objection.

Document, by leave, laid on the Table of the House.

Steffan Browning: I seek leave to table the University of Canterbury's 2011 report that shows that AgResearch breached its GE field trial monitoring requirements.

Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection?

Hon Gerry Brownlee: It is publicly available.

Mr SPEAKER: Well, members can object. Is there any objection? There is objection.

Steffan Browning: I seek leave to table the 2008 Biosecurity New Zealand report that shows that Scion has breached its GE field trial conditions.

Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There is objection.