Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Thank you very much Mr Chair. I look forward to taking a short call to talk on the environment section here with respect to annual reviews and follow some interesting contributions. I might start actually where the Minister David Parker left off when he was talking specifically about environmental reporting.We covered that in the review which you would expect and specifically in our report. It said unlike what has been intimated in the last five minutes that we're not starting from a blank sheet here—that particularly with respect to environmental reporting the previous Government did some huge initiatives. Yes now we can talk about the areas that need to be focused on but first of all you needed a measurement of where we were across the various domains. We brought in the Environmental Reporting Bill in 2015 and so it was great to hear at the committee around two more reports that have come from that particularly the marine domain report and a freshwater domain report. It was only because the previous Government had an absolute focus on ensuring that reporting was required—because once you have an understanding of your position then of course you can make the policy response accordingly. So it was very good to hear from the Ministry for the Environment officials around how effective those reporting frameworks that the previous Government brought in were.We've already had some conversation this afternoon with respect to the zero carbon bill and we heard from the officials the significant work that's going in in their transition hub to scurry around and do the various analysis. There is a huge amount of analysis being put forward for the Government to understand what the implications will be of any targets that may or may not be legislated for in terms of the zero carbon bill. We heard the Minister previously in the last few minutes talk about this zero carbon. Yet again there's a lack of clarity from the Government in terms of the specifics around what that precisely means in terms of a definitional target.One thing that we can be proud of and that certainly was discussed during the review was that actually our gross emissions over the last eight to nine years have remained flat. When you consider the growth of this economy under the previous Government that actually in itself is a solid result. But of course if we're to deliver against the 2030 target that the previous Government has committed the country to there will be significant adjustments required in terms of our emission profile. That is where it gets interesting because that is the sort of analysis that will be brought to the table and brought to the country over the next few months and people can see the scale of the change that's required to deliver the 2030 targets that the previous Government has signed up to. It will cause I think people to reflect that some of the overblown rhetoric that you've heard on the other side of the Chamber around a lack of ambition in this space is in fact precisely that: overblown rhetoric. The transition required to get to the previous Government's commitments will be significant.I want to touch on freshwater management. It was discussed a few speeches ago. It's important to recognise here this evening that the previous Government set new national targets for improving fresh water quality. Again from some of the debate you hear on the other side you'd think that that couldn't possibly be true but it is. We were the party that set that 90 percent of New Zealand's larger rivers and lakes need to be swimmable by 2040. We were the party that set that. We then underpinned it by a reporting framework which shows where we need to improve against that target and that is a Government with a real clear view of actually how to make a difference in this space as opposed to the sort of lightweight verbiage that we've had in some cases over the last hour on this topic.What was really interesting though is despite what the Minister has just said over the last six months there was no advice received according to the officials that in any way suggested that those targets that the previous Government had put down were inappropriate or were not strong enough or indeed should change. So again this view that somehow over the next few years we're going to see massive change here belies the fact of what the officials told us at the committee. If this was supposedly this big change that is coming well it hasn't been discussed with the officials. They're still working to the standards that the previous Government put together that say 90 percent of all rivers are to be swimmable by 2040—a testament to the good thinking that the previous Government brought to this space—and we will continually ensure on this side of the Chamber that any change to that is a change based on merit and good thinking not flimsy lightweight rhetoric. Thank you very much Mr Chair. It was good to be part of the debate.