Brooking RachelHon RACHEL BROOKING (Labour—Dunedin): Well there is a lot of things I could say in response to that last speech but I do want to note that red cars go faster obviously!Now I appreciate the work that the Transport and Infrastructure Committee did on the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill in a very tight time frame and obviously the important changes that my colleagues Tangi Utikere and Arena Williams made—good work them. Of course it's always good if a select committee can be longer and the full six-month process but it wasn't in this case.I also note that in the report we've got with this bill it says While the vast majority of submitters recognised that EV owners should still contribute to the land transport network they considered the RUC rate for EVs to be unreasonable."—and this is in relation to those light electric vehicles (EVs). I do just want to expand on that point for a moment and that is that whilst yes we've heard about user-pays we've also heard the good points raised by my colleague Helen White about the fact that internal combustion engine vehicles have a whole lot of negative health effects that are not necessarily being considered in the economics of this type of legislation. But also when the exemption happened for the EVs some years ago that was to increase the uptake of EVs. And it was always a time-limited policy idea. [Interruption]DEPUTY SPEAKER: Can we just lower the chatter a little bit please. Thank you.Hon RACHEL BROOKING: What we've seen is that all those other policy initiatives to increase EV uptake have gone by the wayside in particular the Clean Car Discount.And I want to just touch here on my hometown of Dunedin because we have heard from other members about how many EVs you find in Auckland. But of course if you come and visit the beautiful Dunedin which I of course suggest that you should—I saw you there recently in fact—there are a lot of Nissan LEAFs. This is a specific type of car that of course was there well before the Clean Car Discount. And it is because many Dunedinites are truly passionate about reducing their climate emissions and where they can afford to—and I of course note that this does involve capital investment—when they can do that they have done that and I congratulate all the LEAF drivers of Dunedin. But we also noticed that with that Clean Car Discount many more EVs were coming into the market. And of course there have been fleet EVs and we will soon be seeing that secondary market of those new-to-New Zealand cars unlike the Nissan LEAFs.So I am disappointed that we're not seeing the policies to decarbonise New Zealand which is so important particularly when we know that such a high percentage of our carbon emissions comes from our transport fleet and our light transport fleet is there.Hon Shane Jones: Adaptation—adaptation. No more alarmism!Hon RACHEL BROOKING: And I hear one of the Ministers talking about adaptation and I hope that he appreciates how expensive it is to adapt when almost all of our cities in New Zealand including of course the beautiful Dunedin—it has a lovely harbour and coastline—will be impacted by climate change. This is very serious. We have signed up to international agreements and we need to do more than adaptation. Adaptation is very important as well—we need to think about our vulnerable communities there—but we also need to reduce emissions. We've signed up to the Paris Agreement and I just keep seeing all the good work that the previous Government did be undone and nothing to replace it. And it is shameful and very depressing. But I'm going to end on a positive note and that is to thank all those people in Dunedin who are doing their best to reduce their emissions. Well done them."