Potaka TamaTAMA POTAKA (National—Hamilton West): Kia ora tātou. I acknowledge Salmon Shirt Day" today—or some people call it Pink Shirt Day—and what it represents: anti-bullying. The different types of pink I've seen today—blush rose fuchsia rosewood taffy bubbly magenta and my personal favourite watermelon—give us great hope for bullying and harassment to stop.Indeed the party sitting on this right side of the House are not as righteous as the Government and feel harassed and bullied into this position. The need for fuel security—nothing new. There are plenty of farms and industrial businesses throughout the country that have those little tanks on their properties—hard-working people who use fuel for farming and other purposes didn't get much support; there wasn't much support for them yesterday actually. It reminds me of that famous Ruakāka moment about six years ago when someone hit the jet fuel line and temporarily cut it—that was a shocker.The bill gives me the first of many—like my colleague Williams—opportunities to speak briefly today and tautoko my esteemed colleague Gerry gone but not forgotten from this moment and other National kaumātua: Collins Stuart Smith Brownlee Bayly not Harete she's rangatahi—kei te rangatahi tonu—along with my by-election buddy Uffindell.But maintaining fuel continuity and supply is fundamental for the country to function and that's why we're supporting this bill. Domestic fuel security—that's critical for the country's productivity. The closure of Marsden Point facilitated by this Government was unnecessary. Having the levy recoverable by the Crown for promoting resilience in the security of supply though that's important—that's absolutely given a lot of tautoko—and to improve monitoring and collecting information on resilience. It's sort of like energy security: you can't keep getting rid of all the options indefinitely. Who knows? We might have to go back to Commodore 64s and Ataris sometime too instead of the HPs we currently use.The urgency accorded to this bill has been unhealthy and some would say undemocratic.Simon Court: I reckon the VK Commodore was the best one.TAMA POTAKA: That's right—and Linux. Today it's energy security—urgency on energy security—tomorrow it could be urgency on the voting age and Sunday it might be constitutional arrangements. Select committee processes allow those affected the industrial players in this space to be engaged to have their chance to have their time in the sun and to give their views. But policy process based on a few coffee conversations at Bellamy's raises unnecessary risks.Somewhere out there is a world where we don't use diesel we don't use coal and we don't use petroleum. That world which some members of the Green Party want us to live in was also known as Gondwanaland and it's long gone. This is 2023 and it's time to pull up our pink stockings and sharpen our pink collars. If anyone is this House thinks that we're going to survive and thrive in the changing climatic conditions only by using electric vehicles and tools they continue to live in a fable written by the Brothers Grimm—it might be Rumpelstiltskin or Little Red Riding Hood or one of the many Studio Ghibli Japanese animation movies like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind where our communities live in a beautiful but very difficult situation.We are 100 percent dependent on other nations for our motor fuel but we're subject to the sort of global bullying and harassment at a global level that at a personal level today on "Salmon Shirt Day" we stand against. I echo my learned gentleman colleague Gerry Brownlee's concerns: we support the bill but believe the ridiculous situation has been caused by unreasonable Government decision-making that harassed the long-term good of this fine country. Kia ora."