9. Question No. 9—Climate ChangeHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel) to the Minister for Climate ChangeQuestion No. 9—Climate Change9. Hon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel) to the Minister for Climate Change: Does he agree with the Prime Minister's statements in New York that in regard to climate change No one has the luxury of copping out" and "But it's very hard for any of us to convince our domestic industries to submit to emissions pricing on their industry when their competitors in other countries don't also face a similar price"?Hon EUGENIE SAGE (Minister of Conservation) on behalf of the Minister for Climate Change: Yes and I also agree with the next line of the Prime Minister's statement and I quote "Now is the time for optimism and for hope and crucially a plan." Optimism hope and a plan are absolutely what our Government has when it comes to climate change.Hon Scott Simpson: What then is his response to the report in The Guardian today stating "The leader who said the climate crisis was her generation's 'nuclear-free moment' did not raise the issue with the US president."?Hon EUGENIE SAGE: On behalf of the Minister the Prime Minister's meeting with the President of the United States was a very successful meeting and as that member well knows trade was top of the agenda.Hon Scott Simpson: What then does the Minister make of The Guardian comments that say "More than anything Ardern might have been expected to use the opportunity to push Trump hard on the issue of climate change."?Hon EUGENIE SAGE: This Government is grappling with the difficult issues around climate change that the previous Government failed to deal with. That pull aside happened at the United Nations meeting where climate was on the agenda. The Prime Minister was calling for multilateralism—connection between countries to deal with the biggest challenge of our time—[Interruption]SPEAKER: Order! That sort of idiotic behaviour is not parliamentary. Further supplementary?Kieran McAnulty: Dancing like a fool.Hon Scott Simpson: In light of the—SPEAKER: Order! Who said that?Kieran McAnulty: I did.SPEAKER: Leave the Chamber.Kieran McAnulty withdrew from the Chamber. Hon Scott Simpson: Does the Minister concede that the Prime Minister's inability to raise the question of climate change with the US President amounted to "the luxury of copping out."?SPEAKER: Order! That question's not properly authenticated.Hon Scott Simpson: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. How was it—SPEAKER: No I've ruled on the matter. A further supplementary?Hon Gerry Brownlee: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: As long as it's not relating to the ruling that I've just made.Hon Gerry Brownlee: No it's not. But—SPEAKER: Very good.Hon Gerry Brownlee: —it is a question that we need to know about: the need now it would seem to authenticate the supplementaries.SPEAKER: Well I happen to look at the authentication where necessary for primary questions. I listened very carefully to the first set of supplementary questions which may or may not have referenced an inaccurate media report or an accurate media report. But there was no such reference in that supplementary. It made an assertion that was not authenticated at all. Further supplementary—Scott Simpson.Hon Shane Jones: Fiction—fiction.SPEAKER: Order! Now Shane Jones will go.Hon Shane Jones: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. For how long?SPEAKER: Until I decide the member can return.Hon Shane Jones withdrew from the Chamber. SPEAKER: Can I just make the obvious comment to members who are sort of showing some lack of understanding of what's going on. When I make a ruling it is not to be the subject of commentary from either side. Scott Simpson? No further supplementaries."