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Speaker 1: The government is committing to speed up approvals for animal

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Speaker 1: and plant health products. All sixteen of the Ministry of

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Speaker 1: Regulations recommendations were accepted and so now we're get a

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Speaker 1: fast track. So Plant and Animal Health Chief Executive is

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Speaker 1: Sheckleton has got a b early for us and good

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Speaker 1: morning toils.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm Marie Andrew lovely to connect.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what will this do for Fanning?

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Speaker 2: So look, Andrew, If regulators can deliver on the direction

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Speaker 2: set out by ministers in this report, the primary sector

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Speaker 2: economy will grow. It's a glimmer of hope that change

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Speaker 2: is coming. But the real test now is if regulators

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Speaker 2: can turn the ship around and implement the recommendations. You know,

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Speaker 2: this is about getting solutions out of a queue and

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Speaker 2: into the hands of our farmers and growers to help

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Speaker 2: them fight today some of today's toughest challenges. And you know,

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Speaker 2: let's look at the products we're talking about here, software, chemistry,

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Speaker 2: inhibitor solutions, alternatives for resistant tests, biologicals prevented of solution.

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Speaker 2: You know, if farmers have these options, it's a race

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Speaker 2: to the top. Without them, it's a race to the bottom.

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Speaker 1: Here's a month ago you were complaining on the Miclasting

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Speaker 1: Breakfast that there was a backlog of more than one

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Speaker 1: hundred applications of waiting approval for the sort of stuff

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Speaker 1: you've just talked about. And you said there could be

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Speaker 1: a four year time spent to clear the queue. So

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Speaker 1: does that still exist? Is it still going to take

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Speaker 1: this long?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So, look, this report confirmed everything that we've been

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Speaker 2: saying about the eye watering delays. And look, Androlette put

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Speaker 2: it in the perspective of a farmer. And here, you know,

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Speaker 2: say white cattle farmers there this morning. They need meetain

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Speaker 2: and nitrous oxide emission solutions. They've got less than five

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Speaker 2: years to meet the twenty thirty climate targets. This report

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Speaker 2: is saying approval will take five point six years. You know,

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Speaker 2: that's just too little, too late if you're a farmer.

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Speaker 2: M and you know, I can give you some other

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Speaker 2: examples about what we've been hearing, because you know, the

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Speaker 2: urgency around this queue is significant.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think we dropped the ball so much?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think it's a complex system, and this is

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Speaker 2: something that this report absolutely lays out today. But I

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Speaker 2: think what's more important now is looking forward and actually

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Speaker 2: delivery to turn this hope into reality about turning this

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Speaker 2: quy around. We absolutely remain committed to work with regulators

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Speaker 2: and want to support them with that. But what our

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Speaker 2: members are calling for is access, you know, engagement, urgency,

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Speaker 2: transparency and accountability. You know, because at a time when

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Speaker 2: our government's crying out for investment in New Zealand here andrew,

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Speaker 2: our members, the keyrean global businesses say, are saying clearly,

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Speaker 2: these delays make the future here untenable, you know. So

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Speaker 2: it's about working together, but ultimately can regulators deliver and

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Speaker 2: implement the recommendation.

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Speaker 1: Of course, of course our advantage is innovation, but if

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Speaker 1: we're sewing down the innovation, then we're losing the advantage.

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Speaker 1: Liz Sheckleton, thank you so much. This is the chief

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Speaker 1: executive of Planned and Animal Health, New Zealand.

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