Brooking RachelHon RACHEL BROOKING (Minister for Oceans and Fisheries): Noa'ia Mr Speaker acknowledging Rotuman Language Week this week. Like the last speaker I do also want to acknowledge the family and friends of the year 11 Whangārei boy. I'm the mother of a year 11 child and I can't imagine the pain that they're going through.I'd also then like to start with going back to question time and the amount of positive things I heard about that this Government is doing. Some of them include Warmer Kiwi Homes—we heard this from Hon Megan Woods. More insulation having warmer homes does some double duty and that's what I want to talk about today: the double duty that this Government is doing. So that is that people get a warmer home and they get lower electricity fees and we have fewer hospital costs and visits as a result.We heard about the Green Investment Fund and the double duty that that can do. We heard about the Māori housing initiatives and amount that's coming in there and we heard from Minister Nanaia Mahuta about the free-trade agreement with the UK and its early entry into force. We heard about the indigenous chapter; the first of its kind in one of these agreements. Then we heard about the increase in diversity of police—I think there were some others that I missed as well but that is a lot of good things that this Government is doing.This is my first general debate now since becoming part of the Government formally as a Minister. And I want to congratulate Jo Luxton today being sworn in and she will be a fantastic customs Minister. One of my portfolios is oceans and fisheries and I was able to speak in this House last week at both question time but also in the annual review debate about some of the work that's going on in that portfolio. That includes the Fisheries Industry Transformation Plan—that's a draft plan for fisheries for the 1.45 billion wild caught fish industry that New Zealand has. The consultation is out to 11 June—my plug in there—and what we're wanting to do with this industry is do more and better with the fish that we catch; not intending to catch more fish.Then also in this portfolio there's the aquaculture strategy. This is an ambitious programme to develop low-carbon protein. We're wanting to get that industry to $3 billion of export money—not immediately of course—and there's a lot of work going in there into looking at open ocean farming and other work that we can do.I also have delegations into waste and environment where of course we've got the Waste Minimisation Fund and Plastics Innovation Fund with a focus on diverting waste. Again we're talking about double duty. A decrease in waste leads to a decrease in emissions. This is true from two main ways. One is of course if we've got organic waste that's creating biogenic methane and that's a problem in terms of climate emissions. But also if we can recycle things like aluminium using recycled aluminium uses 90 percent less energy than making new aluminium. So that's a huge energy saving.There's a lot of work to do in this portfolio for a low-emissions and circular economy but it's something I'm very excited about. Of course we're doing a lot on climate change. I'm very proud that this Government has done that first emissions reduction plan. We have the hypothecated fund from the emissions trading scheme with the CERF—the Climate Emergency Response Fund—and there are many many initiatives in that including the Clean Car Discount. This programme has doubled the number of EVs—electric vehicles—coming into New Zealand in just the one year and saved 1.4 billion litres of petrol and all the emissions that go with that.I want to note of course that the ACT Party doesn't want us to do anything on climate emissions.Simon Court: Yes we do.Hon RACHEL BROOKING: Well the focus from the leader is on adaptation which is important as well. We have to do both.Also looking towards the future I want to note that of course we have the FIFA Women's World Cup coming up. Dunedin is the only host city in the South Island and you can see games from teams from the Philippines Switzerland—Switzerland will be hosted by Dunedin—the Netherlands Portugal Japan Costa Rica Argentina South Africa Vietnam and of course our very own New Zealand team. This is obviously in July; if you are in Dunedin then you can come to the brilliant stadium which has a roof. Thank you Mr Speaker.