Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): That was the Hon Michael Wood the worst Minister of Transport that New Zealanders have ever had and I hope he enjoys his doughnuts—big red zero. But the point is that this Minister of Transport can't even fix the potholes and now he's here bringing legislation to fix a stuff-up in legislation that he was warned would need to be fixed back in February. What has this Minister actually achieved in transport in New Zealand; how many potholes are peppering the highways? Fifty thousand—50000 potholes—peppering our highways. Even in Tauranga. Even in the Bay of Plenty. Even in the Waimak". Speed limit reductions. He's wanting to reduce speed limits. That's about the only thing he's managing to actually do—reduce a few speed limits. Can't do light rail wants to solve the climate crisis with light rail which embeds more carbon emissions than actually if you did another way. Cycle bridge. You can't build a cycle bridge to try and cut cycle emissions—cycle emissions or car emissions. Cancels roads.Then what he didn't talk about is how much coal—how much coal—this Government is bringing into the country three times as much coal as was being imported under National. The Huntly coal-burning power station is going overtime because this Government has not been able to get the investment in renewable energy that is required. And that is the absolute shame of this Government. They're woke virtue signalling on climate change trying to tell us and lecture the National Party about what should be done when they are the ones importing the dirty Malaysian coal to keep the lights on. That's the reality of this Minister of Transport and his Government's record when it comes to climate.So while we support this piece of legislation to fix this stuff-up we do say to this Government that actually we don't support where the current Clean Car Standard is set at because what it is doing is it's actually going to make things go backwards even further. We've already heard today that the New Zealand Police can't even buy utes for their fleet anymore because—Todd Muller: What about the farmers?SIMEON BROWN: —none of the importers—and what about the farmers and the tradies? Because the Clean Car Standard to be has been set at such a standard and such a tight standard that our farmers our tradies and those people who don't have choices currently will not be able to get the vehicles that they need. So for all that the Minister stands up and talks about how this is going to mean we get cleaner vehicles into the country—well actually he forgets two things. One is that he can't dictate to car manufacturers around the world what type of cars they're going to produce. We're a very very small country. The EU the Japanese standards—they are the people who will set the standards. We need to make sure we're actually able to get those vehicles. But at the same time we shouldn't be punishing those who don't have a choice or where there isn't the supply available at the moment like for our farmers and our tradies.So the message from the National Party is very clear: we will get rid of the "feebate". The "feebate" which is the reverse Robin Hood scheme which is taking money from farmers and tradies and it's giving it to people in the inner city leafy suburbs to buy their very expensive Teslas—the Teslas they can already afford to purchase thank you very much!—and are being subsidised by those who don't have a choice and from those on lower income. This is the Labour Party the party of the worker—the party of the worker—they used to be. They're now the party of the Tesla—they are the party of the Tesla. They're helping Elon Musk out more than they're helping the people in South Auckland. That's what this Government's track record has been: helping the Malaysian coal industry and helping Elon Musk to bring in more Teslas. They're not helping the workers. They're not helping the people doing it tough. They're not helping our farmers the backbone of our economy who got our economy through COVID-19. They're not helping any of those people but they're helping those who can already make those choices.So we'll get rid of the "feebate" scheme and we will make sure that the standard is something which is achievable but which also ensures that those who require vehicles like utes for their work—farmers and tradies—and now we learnt even our police who are doing it tough enough thank you very much who need those type of vehicles to respond to emergencies and can't wait around—Hon Judith Collins: What about the dog handlers?SIMEON BROWN: —and the dog handlers—and actually have jobs to get to and can't plug their ute in for 14 hours to wait for it to be recharged. Those people actually need to have options they need to have choices and this Government is taking those choices away. We will stop that and we'll make sure that there is accessibility for those people so they can get the vehicles they need whilst at the same time reducing emissions over time in a sensible pragmatic way. We work with the industry and we don't keep stuffing it up bringing legislation to the Parliament every five minutes and we still don't get an apology from the Minister—he doesn't even say sorry. He can't even say to the Parliament "I'm sorry we stuffed it up." Can't even say that. That's the arrogance of the man who wants to be the next Prime Minister of New Zealand.Well I can tell you what New Zealanders won't accept that level of arrogance. They're sick and tired of that arrogance. They want change. They want a Government which will actually listen to them which will actually address the cost of living which will ensure that we're not screwing over our car market here in New Zealand and actually making sure we have pragmatic solutions to address the climate challenges and the issues that we have facing New Zealanders. We will fix this law when we win the next election but we will support this because it is making a small tiny little difference and we will do anything which helps make a small tiny little difference. But we'll fix it once and for all when we get into Government. Thank you."