Sage EugenieHon EUGENIE SAGE (Green) (remote): Talofa lava Mr Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): Five minutes Eugenie—my apologies.Hon EUGENIE SAGE: Correct. Budget 2022 is a climate Budget. It is a Budget that will cut pollution while going some way but not nearly far enough to make life easier for families across Aotearoa. If the Greens had the balance of power and Budget 2022 had a stronger Green hue we would have gone much further. We would have introduced a wealth tax to boost Government revenue so that we can invest in more of the things and services we need. We would have had a guaranteed minimum income and would have made public transport free. Half-price fares have been a huge success. They've increased patronage and free public transport would not only help more people get around but it would reduce our transport emissions too. But Budget 2022 does show the difference that the Green Party is making through our cooperation agreement with Labour in helping deliver meaningful change and it's a landmark Budget because of its focus on our climate and action to reduce emissions and protect our future.One after another National speakers in this debate have shown despite the party's past election slogans promising a better and brighter future that they just don't get it. They don't get it: that protecting the climate and nature must be our number one priorities if we are to safeguard our wellbeing and our future as a species. They don't even mention the climate. Yet the launch of Aotearoa's first emissions reduction plan on the Monday of Budget week and the climate focus of Budget 2022 is huge. That emissions reduction plan contains over 300 actions across nearly every part of Government: 15 different Ministers with 18 portfolios between them. And it's the $2.9 billion which is coming from climate polluters through the emissions trading scheme and is being recycled into avoiding and reducing emissions and implementing the suite of actions in that plan that this Budget is really important for. I'd like to give a big shout-out to all the activists the scientists the academics the councils the community organisations the businesses and the individuals who have given the Government this mandate for change—the zero carbon Act which set up the independent Climate Change Commission the whole framework for setting emissions budgets which have now been done and then this comprehensive and funded emissions reduction plan.In the Greens we've made no secret of the fact that we want more rapid action to cut climate pollution. We want to phase out coal faster. We'd have a clear target date for an end to internal combustion engine vehicles being imported into New Zealand. And we want much more done to reduce agricultural emissions. But we really celebrate the recognition in this Budget of the crucial action we need to take to reduce climate pollution and the crucial role that nature-based solutions have in cutting climate pollution. I really congratulate the Minister of Finance and the conservation Minister Kiritapu Allan on the extra $374 million over four years in operational funding for Te Papa Atawhai the Department of Conservation to help it care for a third of Aotearoa's lands and waters. That's an investment in critical infrastructure—in ecosystems indigenous forests indigenous species—the infrastructure of nature: the ecosystem services that provide us with clean air water to drink places to play and food to eat as well as being the basis of our economy. When National talks about infrastructure it's motorways and more cars more climate pollution; yet it's nature which is the critical infrastructure—that and the climate—which keep us alive.Budget 2022 also shows just shows how much difference the Green Party's cooperation with Labour is making. We're really making progress on those commitments in conservation with an extra $27 million for maintaining the current scale of aerial predator control of rats stoats and possums—that help improve the chances of threatened species like kiwi and kākā nesting and breeding successfully. And I'm really pleased that Budget '22 contains an extra $30 million for deer and possum control and management. There's been a huge increase in deer numbers and their spread and browsing pressure is a major threat to the health of our native forests. And if in this Budget there's $147 million being invested in more planting programmes to help sequester carbon it's only as Forest & Bird has said giving a free lunch to deer and goats if we don't control them on conservation land and prevent them just browsing forests and suppressing regeneration. If this was a Green Budget—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): The member's time has expired.