Coffey TāmatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'm very happy to take a call on this bill. If there's something to be garnered from the last two contributions from the Opposition it's that they've got no plan. It's that when it comes to climate change they sit there and they talk about how much we need to change things. But they don't follow it through with action. And there goes the stark difference between this side of the House and that side of the House. We're ambitious; we follow up what we say with actual action to try and change the outcome of the future of New Zealand when it comes to climate change.The previous contribution talked about the small change that it's going to make to how we do things talked about how the pricing might be a little bit different but actually if you take a big step back and you think about the financial impact of climate change that's why we're all here. That's why we've actually been working with the sector working with the community to figure out how we can do things differently. The other side of the House will take the really conservative approach which is actually just to kick back boo the Government and talk about exactly what it is that we're trying to do to make changes in this area. But they haven't got a plan. So the hashtag to go on that contribution from the previous member is #NationalNoPlan #NationalNotFitToGovern #Don'tWantToDoAnythingAboutClimateChange.But on this side of the House we're absolutely committed to following through on what we've said that we're going to. And actually there's been a cross-party consensus that climate change is real that climate change is affecting our various communities across Aotearoa. The difference is that this Government are trying to do something about it; that Opposition don't have a plan. The plan for today is to talk about this bill. The sustainable biofuels obligation plan will help to deliver on the Government's emissions reduction plan. Hon Gerry Brownlee: Stop reading the notes—say it from the heart. TĀMATI COFFEY: It's going to prevent one million tonnes of emissions from cars from trucks. And that member should read his own notes because he's refusing to understand exactly why we're doing this. Over the next decade just over a decade we're looking to take out 9 million tonnes from the emissions that we make as a country in terms of transport. Now that's really important because yes we can debate whether or not we're doing the right thing. But actually we're talking about taking out nine million tonnes of emissions in an effort to be able to meet our targets as we've agreed as a House that this is a really important thing to do.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Where did the number come from?TĀMATI COFFEY: So what we've gone and done is we've put this bill up—and yes it's a rehash from the last time that that member was here in Parliament. Again in 2008 we had our Minister at the time the energy Minister the Hon David Parker who brought this to the House all the way back then. We could have got started on this a decade ago. We absolutely could have got started on this over a decade ago. But actually it's taken us this long to be able to get it back into Parliament. We introduced it then. The Opposition did what they're saying that they're going to do now which is they chucked it out. They just chucked it out. And are we any better off? No. Our emissions are no better off. We've not moved.They said at the time that actually if they wanted this to be done in a voluntary way surely the companies would come around. Guess what! Hon Members: They didn't! TĀMATI COFFEY: They didn't! They didn't do it. And so here we are again playing the same old tune. Here's the Labour Government. We understand the problem at hand. We don't want to kick the can down the road like the Opposition. So we're actually stumping up with a bill. Why are we doing it? Because we want to see our emissions come down. Why are we doing it? Because we understand that with every single year there is the impact that these one-in-100-year floods are having in our community. And actually that's really important to remember because it affects us all. We're trying to do something really proactive to be able to bring the community in on our goals to be able to reduce our emissions. This is a good bill. We're going to do it. I look forward to actually making sure that this goes through the House this time and that New Zealand has a plan when it comes to meeting our targets for climate change—unlike the other side of the House #NationalNoPlan. I commend it to the House.