Shaw James: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeShaw James: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11248. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]11.JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green) to the Minister for Climate Change Issues: Did she make a bid for Budget 2016 to cancel Government-held carbon credits to compensate for the past use of “dubious” credits in order to meet New Zealand’s climate commitments?Hon PAULA BENNETT (Minister for Climate Change Issues): The member will just have to be patient and wait until the Budget tomorrow—one more sleep.James Shaw: Why would anybody trust a country that as New Zealand has done covers up its rising emissions by using fake carbon credits and then refuses to do the right thing and pay them back when it has the chance?Hon PAULA BENNETT: Those units as the member knows were surrendered to meet our Kyoto obligations. Of the total that we submitted they made up 26 percent so the other 74 percent actually had environmental integrity. The units that we have left are all of high environmental integrity and so as a consequence we are drawing a line in the sand and moving on.James Shaw: By what percentage did New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions—net greenhouse gas emissions—increase between 2008 and 2014?Hon PAULA BENNETT: I am not sure about that particular time line. What I do know about is the report that came out just last week which said that they had gone up by 1 percent in that 2014 report that we have just put out.James Shaw: I seek leave to table calculations by the Parliamentary Library based on the report out last week showing that emissions increased by 19 percent under National.Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that particular information prepared by the Parliamentary Library. Is there any objection? There is objection. [Interruption] Order! Listen we do not need to have the conversation from this side. Leave was put; leave was denied. That is the end of the matter.James Shaw: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The Parliamentary Library’s analysis was not publicly available.Mr SPEAKER: I need to determine whether the information would be useful. I determined that it could have been I put the leave and it is then the ability of any member to decline it. They do not have to give a reason. The leave was put it has been declined and that is the end of the matter.James Shaw: Will she concede that her Government’s decision to flood New Zealand with cheap dubious carbon credits contributed to the 19 percent increase in emissions under this Government?Hon PAULA BENNETT: Certainly the advice that I have had is that it is not surprising that we have had an increase in most recent years as the population has gone up. We are looking at more cars that are on the road which means that transport has gone up but actually if you went on a percentage basis as to the level of population that has gone up and the actual emissions they have actually decreased slightly but not overall because of our population increase.James Shaw: Given that our emissions are the highest that they have been since 1990 and have risen 19 percent under this Government’s tenure in the time that we have had an emissions trading scheme if she is not going to fix it in this Budget—when?Hon PAULA BENNETT: As I have said he can find out what is in the Budget tomorrow but what I would also say is that we have the highest population in this country that we have ever had.