Willis ScottSCOTT WILLIS (Green): Thank you Mr Chair. This Government has clearly been getting dizzy by sniffing fossil fuels. It is simply impossible to get to the rapture driving a sport utility vehicle (SUV) but we will see the earth turned into hell in trying to do just that. Yet I do see a little bit of hope because already the Government has shown the ability to walk back bad policy by voting in select committee to reduce the road-user charge (RUC) for hybrids. So that was a great innovation; thank you our colleagues in Labour.But could it be that the effects of sniffing fumes has worn off a little or maybe they were just too befuddled at that point and had no idea and were a bit too embarrassed to change it. We certainly need clear heads now because as reported in the New Zealand Herald electric vehicle (EV) sales drove off a cliff in January with the clean car discount gone. Petrol and diesel vehicles less than half the market during most months of 2023 accounted for 96 of new vehicle registrations in January 2024 according to the Motor Industry Association. Each new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle locks in emissions and dependence on oil from the Middle East. Each single decision to purchase an ICE vehicle and an SUV raises emissions. This is fast track all right. We're going backwards on a fast track. But it doesn't have to be this way. It really doesn't have to be this way. Whether by carelessness or through urgency or through befuddlement through the fumes the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill will clearly not help lower transport costs or lower emissions as it stands. Luckily my colleague the Hon Julie Anne Genter has prepared some really useful amendments. In Amendment Paper 24 there's a clause added there to prevent the charging of RUC for EVs and plug-in hybrids until the Government has completed its work to move all vehicles to the RUC system.This is effectively to highlight the unfortunate and sloppy lawmaking on a complex revenue system that has led to really unfair charges on electric vehicles. The intention is to stop the work until the Government moves all vehicles to road-user charges; to do it once to do it properly to do it cleanly and to retain a minor incentive to choose new low-emission vehicles. We know this Government is keen on roads. We've heard a lot about the roads. So my invitation really to the Government is to chart a new road. Why don't we get on the road to Damascus and discover the joy of climate action? Because it is time to get back on track towards zero carbon—it is time to get back on track towards zero carbon not back on baccy for the taxes for the wealthy. It is time to get back on track and make some changes that will make a difference and help our rural communities as well as our urban communities decarbonise their transport systems to help those people that want to invest and are disincentivised by sloppy lawmaking. There's so much opportunity here to take good advice from across the aisle to make a change not just a mess; to make a change that improves law improves legislation and makes a difference for our communities. So I just request the members opposite and the Minister to pay attention to Amendment Paper 24. It's a really simple one. It just improves the legislation. It just makes things a little bit better and it is easy to implement. Kia ora.