Simpson Scott; Mallard TrevorHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Thank you Mr Speaker. In reply to the statement from the Minister I want to reiterate on behalf of the National Party that we are proud as a party of our record on climate change. It was National that signed us up to the Paris Agreement and it was National in Government that ratified that decision on behalf of all New Zealanders. And National proudly supported the zero carbon legislation that as the Minister said was passed without dissent in this Parliament. That's important because that unanimity provides New Zealanders with the certainty they need in the years that will come in the decades that will follow as we traverse our way towards net zero 2050 that no matter which Government is in Government what political strife or colour that Government the direction is set.As is right and proper in a functioning democracy parties can should and will debate the detail of how to achieve those objectives and that goal. That's right and proper and so yesterday's plan was really in many respects just a plan about a plan because so many of the initiatives—the nearly 300 initiatives that were announced yesterday—were either working groups initiatives that had already been announced or were in train or were just bullet-point statements saying We're going to think about a plan on this sort of thing." And so all that mush really was an underwhelming plan that a Government has had two years—two years—to bring to this Parliament and to the people of New Zealand. So while we think that there were parts of the emission reduction plan that were worthy and credible there are some very poor examples of taxpayers' money being spent for little or no result.And at a time when we are in a cost of living crisis every single dollar of taxpayer money should be spent carefully wisely and with a clear focus on outcomes and results from that dollar spent on behalf of New Zealanders. Because the plain reality is that at the moment New Zealanders are paying somewhere between 17c and 19c per litre in their petrol price on the contribution to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) and in this plan nearly $750 million of the nearly $4 billion spending that was announced yesterday is going to corporate welfare. So those people in the squeezed middle—those New Zealanders those hard-working New Zealanders who are contributing to the ETS funding that funds this plan through their petrol pump price—they will be subsidising large corporates to take actions that those corporates should actually already be taking to do things that businesses as responsible corporate citizens should be doing in their role as responsible corporate citizens. And it's not right that taxpayer dollars should be subsidising the removal of old-fashioned fossil-fuel boilers from businesses like Fonterra or indeed Heineken and DB Breweries. That's wrong and we oppose that part of the plan.But an area that we do support relates to issues around agriculture because there is a good lump of money invested in this plan to support further research and development and science around how to crack the biogenic methane conundrum that confronts us as a nation. And why that's important is because if we can as a small nation at the bottom of the South Pacific crack the biogenic methane conundrum we will be doing not only New Zealand a huge favour but we will be doing the world a favour—the planet the globe—because every country that has agricultural production is grappling with exactly the same issue.So we will wait with interest to see how this Government actually starts to implement these plans that they have in place. We're not sure that there is any appetite amongst hard-working New Zealanders who are paying a huge increase in the cost of living at the moment—we're not sure that they have confidence this Government can deliver because this Government has an appalling record on delivery. Making grand statements—the bold emotional statements—they are good at that. They are addicted to spending—$3 billion in this plan will be spent—but New Zealanders do not have faith in this Government to deliver the results that they have committed to and the Minister said in his closing lines in his statement "The task is for our Government to make it happen." Well New Zealanders doubt that this Government will happen. He said the task is for all of us to make the next plan better.SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member's time has expired. [Interruption] No there were no questions there."