Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well that last speech was—I think I heard Mr Bayly say—one minute 48. That was actually almost a record for what I've heard from the other speakers from Labour this morning. So I just wanted to start off on this Maritime Transport (MARPOL Annex VI) Amendment Bill by saying that the member Shanan Halbert said before that the ACT MP stood up last night supported the bill and then blasted the other side of the House. I would suggest—Shanan Halbert: Other way round.BARBARA KURIGER: No it was that way around. So now Mr Halbert you might want to check what you said. Look I have every reason why the ACT member would want to blast the other side of the House and we're supporting the bill this morning. I also have a few points to make to the other side of the House. While Mr Halbert was speaking he actually made a point in his speech of saying on this bill that It's an easy round for us this morning". I would actually contest that a party who stood up in this House and decided to declare a climate emergency paying lip-service to something that is around improving the climate and the environment is quite a disgrace. So it's easy to say one thing and do something else.It's also quite interesting when you look through this bill that we're looking at a Labour Government over there who not only declared a climate emergency but will tell you on various occasions that they're focused on the ocean and they're focused on everything being better. Where's the Kermadec bill to follow this one? That would be a really nice bill to put up Mr Halbert if you really are concerned about the oceans.But anyway back to this bill. So National does support this bill. It represents a relatively minor yet positive step forward towards a shipping sector that's cleaner and healthier for people and the environment. And of course we on the National side of the House realise that New Zealand needs to play its part in the mitigation of climate change—play our part right? I'm not a fan and neither is the National caucus of the over-commitments that this Government is currently making for our country. I wonder what's actually going to happen now that they've passed this very clean Maritime Transport (MARPOL Annex VI) Amendment Bill to the coal that they're bringing into the country on ships to support our energy environment because they have no transition. It's not a just transition. It's not a transition at all. It's just a mishmash of ideas. So these ships are now currently actually bringing more coal into New Zealand in 2021 in three months than what they brought into New Zealand in the whole of 2016 and 2017. That is a Government that has all the words to support their view on climate change but no action.So this bill is a continuation of the work of successive Governments since New Zealand first signed up to MARPOL in 1998. A majority of stakeholders supported the bill and New Zealand acceding to Annex VI. However there is a recognition that there will be economic implications and effect on businesses particularly domestic shipping operators who will be affected by this requirement to use the low-sulphur fuels. So every time we make a decision: on one hand there's the environment on the other hand there's the economics and then there's the social factors that go with everything. Sometimes I don't think the Government gets this energy trilemma right in any shape or form.There is one thing that's been noticeable in the long length of time since this bill has been in process: the cruise ship industry due to COVID has had a very—well there's been a real damper put on cruise ships. So when I look at some of the other annexes that have been supported by this there's Annex V which talks about garbage. I would say that for cruise ships despite the fact that people can have lovely holidays on them there is actually quite a lot of garbage that's actually associated with those cruise ships and quite a lot of waste comes off them. So it was good to see that clause that's in there to ensure that that's actually handled correctly because we have a problem in New Zealand with landfills and I don't think the Government's got its mind clearly around that. There's a lot that we could do around waste-to-energy while we're on the topic of climate change.So 94 other countries are party to Annex VI and that represents 97 percent of world shipping tonnage. So this is one area where the world's in a climate change and environmental space largely on the same page. That's a good thing. We know there's a talkfest going on at the moment in Glasgow and while we're all interested in making a difference to climate change we can't see some of the shallow promises that are going on around the world making a big difference. We have to get some real wins on the board. But in this case 94 other countries are already party to it. That must be really disappointing for a Government that seems to contend that they lead the world on everything. They lead the world on COVID until they don't. In terms of—Shanan Halbert: Go back to MARPOL. BARBARA KURIGER: —net zero readiness—this is about the climate Mr Halbert; this is about why we're doing this in these ships OK? This is about the climate. On the Net Zero Readiness Index New Zealand in the KPMG report that came out last week or the week before was ranked ninth. So we do have some work to do and this bill—the MARPOL bill Mr Halbert—is a very small part of actually keeping up our place. But I will notice in that report that our agricultural industries featured at No. 1 for net zero readiness compared to other countries in the world. I think if the Prime Minister and the Government want to stand up and display our first-in-the-world perhaps the Prime Minister would like to stand up and announce that one.So Annex VI given that the Government decided this was an easy round and they weren't going to do any work on it this morning just as it's the third reading of the bill and I suspect that the last speaker who will also come from the Government will decide that this is an easy round talking on the MARPOL bill—it's so important to them marine pollution that they can't actually give it any time in the House this morning—I just would like to remind the public at the end of this bill that Annex VI requires signatory countries to meet a number of obligations including: limiting the amount of sulphur content in all ship fuel to 0.5 percent requiring certain diesel engines to comply with nitrous oxide emission standards requiring certain ship board incinerators to meet performance standards banning the incineration of certain substances ensuring that all ships with a mass of 400 gigatonnes or more meet energy-efficiency requirements and ensuring port reception facilities for residues and waste are available.So the New Zealand Shipping Federation has noticed that there will be a likely higher impact on fuel prices and difficulty of sourcing supply. I would also note that in the time that this bill has been taking to go round and round and come back to here the proposal to turn Marsden Point from a refinery into a terminal is not going to help our energy security in this country and I've seen no other proposals from this Government around what they might like to do with Marsden Point at the point that it becomes a terminal.We're sitting down here—not only do we already have ships bringing fuel into the country but we have a range of products that come in here—we know we're a little country at the bottom of the world and what I would like to make special mention of this morning is Kotahi. That was an arrangement that was put together between Fonterra and Silver Fern Farms back in 2010 and I would note that if that arrangement hadn't been in place we would have struggled a lot more around COVID in terms of getting our trade out and we know that trade is the thing that's keeping this country going at the moment. It's either the trade that we're putting out of this country from agriculture and horticulture or the other part of it is the amount of money that the Government's decided to borrow and spend on stupid things. So with that I'm going to commend the bill to the House. Thank you."