Simpson ScottHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Thank you Madam Speaker. Well the current and soon not-to-be I suspect member for Northcote really needs to understand that it is his party that is currently in Government. It is his party that has the current privilege of deciding policy and policy direction. It is the Opposition's role to critique and criticise and point out the failings of their legislative and policy agenda. It is full of holes. That's why we are here today in urgency passing and amending a piece of legislation without the scrutiny of a select committee process to fix up a stuff-up made by the Minister of Transport who is also the Minister of Immigration and has become the most notoriously inept Minister in the Labour Government's administration. The person who will almost single-handedly be the cause of so many of those Labour backbenchers leaving and exiting this Parliament at the next general election because of his inept his arrogant and his I know best" approach to everything that clearly does not work. That's why we are here because we are fixing up a mistake of his that is of Napoleonic proportion. When the principle legislation was first introduced he was advised and warned not only just by us here in the Opposition but by the sector and the industry themselves that what he was imposing upon them was unworkable that the time frames were too tight and that there would be perverse outcomes as a result of his arrogant stubborn determination to push on with his ideological approach that bears no resemblance to pragmatic and practical approaches that exist in reality.Now on "Planet Labour"—we know that on "Planet Labour" they operate in a little hermitically-sealed bubble of self-congratulation self-affirmation and self-supporting. They don't mix with ordinary New Zealanders they don't understand how the economy works. They have no regard these days at all for their traditional base: the working people. The trades halls are empty these days because so many of those people that used to be the champions of the trade hall now sit in this debating chamber. They now sit in this debating chamber distant aloof out of touch arrogant and soon to be out of Government.So this Minister who is often referred to as being a potential successor to lead the Labour Party is going to be the cause of their demise. Now we know on this side of the House that it's in his personal best interests to bring down the Government and by crikey he's doing a wonderful job at doing that. He's making everything he possibly can do happen to bring down this Government. One has to ask—and certainly those members that sit on the backbenches of the Labour Party in this House they must be questioning what his motivation is because clearly it is not to support them or their political or electoral success. It is his own.So what's happening here is a retreat of Napoleonic proportions. We are going to have to support this piece of legislation because it was a stuff-up in the first place. It was a mistake in the first place. The industry and the sector told the Government it was a mistake. We told them it was a mistake. It included a whole range of vehicles like motorcycles that were never intended to be part of it. Now they want us—now they want us—to provide them with the solutions to their conundrums and their problems. Well they will just have to wait. But trust me there are better solutions.The parties of the left in this Parliament don't have a monopoly on climate policy and they don't have a monopoly on ideas about how to better bring a decarbonised economy to New Zealand. The political Labour Party is imbued with their own ideological mantras that are so distant from reality and practical application that they simply are out of tune and soon to be out of office. So here we are in urgency in the second reading of this piece of legislation having to support them because it's the right and prudent thing to do to dig them out of a hole of their own creation of their own making. An arrogant out-of-touch Minister who comes to this House talks about doughnuts and by crikey he's had more than his fair share of doughnuts and it's very obvious to see that. But he is a Minister that is single-handedly causing the most anguish hurt and pain in this Parliament. So thank you we'll support this legislation because we understand the need to dig them out of a hole."