Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): Kia ora Mr Speaker. I'd love to ask that previous speaker Penny Simmonds how much money they're going to spend to dismantle Te Pūkenga. This afternoon I want to say how hopeful I am how invigorated I am and how excited I am about what is going on in this nation and I take Te Pūkenga for an example. Just recently in Taranaki who was the first cab off the rank to support the future of Te Pūkenga? We celebrated 50 years of our polytechnic here in Taranaki in our region. We not only celebrated 50 years of what has been 50 years of what has happened 50 years of the successes and 50 years of the challenges but we looked hopefully into the future and we were hopeful as hundreds of people gathered to celebrate Te Pūkenga and its future at our polytechnic in Taranaki to say that we are moving forward we are going places and it is exciting. Our future is exciting. Then again I'll come back to two weeks ago. I was on a panel with energy futures Aotearoa talking about our oil and gas industry and the future and the skills challenges that we face not only in our energy sector but in many of our sectors around Aotearoa New Zealand. I was super impressed as I participated as I listened and as I learnt. One of the representatives from Te Pūkenga was there and talked about the ability that we have now as a nationwide organisation to move and change with the times to bring people from Christchurch and Otago and to bring people down from Waikato in terms of filling our skills gaps and making sure that the courses and the programmes are in place to be fit and ready for our clean energy future—not only in Taranaki but in New Zealand and around the world.I'm hopeful and I'm excited about what's going on and—as was said earlier by our Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and as was said by our Minister of Energy and Resources—last week 97 percent of renewable energy was used. I looked it up. I checked online to make sure they got their numbers right and I knew that they would have but then I noticed that on Friday morning it was 99 percent. That's right: 99 percent of our energy was renewable energy that was powering the nation. We can do better. We've got more work to do and on this side of the House we are hopeful and we're committed to making that happen.Now again a couple of weeks ago I was in Taranaki and I was able to attend the launch of a new offshore wind farm for South Taranaki. Now this is exciting: South Taranaki—as you know Mr Speaker—many years ago had challenges in terms of freezing works closing down and in terms of challenges for jobs and unemployment. But as we move in this just transition space we see the potential of jobs jobs jobs in a town in Taranaki that like Pātea had had the guts ripped out of it many many years ago. It has the potential of becoming the new lead in terms of the clean-energy sector in our region. The fact is that they're going to be using spaces out of there to build offshore wind and when we talk about that we're talking about this decade. I'm glad that as a Government in this year's Budget we committed $18 million for the development of a comprehensive strategy not only in energy a hydrogen road map but for making sure that we have the regulatory framework in place to ensure that we have the offshore wind capacity to ensure that we not only hit 97 percent and 99 percent but that we become the clean-energy capital of the world when it comes to our energy creation as we move forward.Finally as I say I'm hopeful and I'm happy and I'm optimistic about what's moving forward. Last night I was back home at the Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. We as a Government are committed to our environment and we as a Government are committed to our climate and so I was so excited to be there to see the winners not only of business and not only of educators but of our tamariki. I noticed that Matapu preschool was one of the winners. These are preschoolers who are learning and being empowered to take action to protect the resource of our environment taking action to protect our climate taking action as three- four- and five-year-olds to make sure that they live in a hopeful place that is prosperous—not only for us and when it comes to our bank balances but also when it comes to our people and also when it comes to our planet. Our planet is the only one we have. I am committed as a member of the Labour Party to ensure that we protect our people to ensure that we protect our planet and to ensure that we protect the hope of our future which is our tamariki. The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.