Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): National will support this bill but it's a stuff-up by the Government—an absolute stuff-up that we're here again this year in Parliament fixing legislation that this Government rushed through Parliament earlier this year and it's a clean car stuff-up. And I just want to congratulate Minister Verrall for her promotion as the new Minister of Transport" who managed to make it down to the House to read the speech and not to express any apology to the New Zealand taxpayer to the car industry or to the people who are being affected by this piece of legislation for this absolute stuff-up by the Government.We were told that the Government was rushing the clean vehicle legislation through earlier this year; the industry told us that was what was happening. The regulatory impact assessment made it incredibly clear: one of the big issues was whether the New Zealand Transport Authority would be able to be set up in time; whether they would have the ability to be able to actually implement the legislation. This was told to us back at the time and we made it clear: this is being rushed. And now we're here in Parliament fixing up their mistakes because they on that side—with their woke virtue signalling—always talk about "It's a climate emergency we need to rush things through we need to do it quickly" and here they come down to Parliament and they're like "Well actually we can't implement it that fast so we're going to have to delay things—delay it by six months" and that's exactly what they're doing. This is a clean car stuff-up. If only this Government actually took a little bit more time to get the details right we wouldn't be wasting this Parliament's time pushing legislation through in urgency to try and clean up their mistakes.So this bill does a few things. The first thing is it delays the implementation of their Clean Car Standard which as we've already discussed is something which should have been delayed right from the start to give the agency time to actually get itself set up and do the work that was needed—and to allow the industry to be able to prepare for it as it is a significant change; the Clean Car Standard is a significant change to how the clean car importation business works in New Zealand. But the bill also exempts now motorcyclists because oops motorcycle importers were not meant to be—this was the Clean Car Standard not the clean motorcycle standard. But the legislation—and we raised this at the time as well we made it clear that this is going to have unintended consequences. Lo and behold no we have to rush this through we can't take too much time. Well here we are we're now making it clear that motorcycle importers were not meant to be included all the way along. So oops we're back here to clarify the legislation for motorcyclists. But again it comes back to a Government which just rushes legislation through Parliament and expresses its woke virtue signalling to try to say that "We're amazing we're doing all these things".But let's just get back to the basics of what this legislation's actually doing—it's doing two things: it's got the Clean Car Discount and it has the Clean Car Standard. And so the Government passed both of those pieces back in back in February. The Clean Car Discount "feebate" system—this is a reverse Robin Hood scheme by this Government the Government which says they're here to help low income; the party of workers. The party of workers has become the party supporting Elon Musk's Tesla because tens of millions of dollars have been taken off the working-class people in New Zealand through the "feebate" scheme and have been handed out to millionaires who can already afford their $75000 Teslas—already afford to buy them—and who are now getting these discounts. The people of Ponsonby Parnell Remuera and Wellington Central are getting millions of dollars in discounts for their Teslas which are being paid for by the working-class people of New Zealand who are working hard trying to get ahead and are being punished by this Government who does not care about them who does not care about the hard-working people of New Zealand. This is a Government that's putting reverse Robin Hood policies in place: punishing the poor to pay the rich. It's absolutely disgusting. Their heads are hanging in shame. How disgusting. They know how bad this is—they know how bad this is—and they know that voters out there in the real world will punish them for it at the next election. And the National Party will get rid of the Clean Car Discount "feebate" reverse Robin Hood scam.But what we have said is we will support a Clean Car Standard. We do support delaying its implementation because we do need to reduce emissions of vehicles coming into the country over time but we do need to make sure that those standards are achievable we do need to make sure that they're implemented in an achievable way. What we know from the submissions was that where they're currently set is not going to be achievable. It is going to put significant risk on the fact that there will not be the amount of vehicles needed to come into the country the stock availability won't be there there aren't the options around utes and those vehicles that are needed for our farmers and tradies. So there will need to be changes made to that standard to make sure that New Zealanders can still get the vehicles they need for their work and the things that they do whilst at the same time making sure that we do reduce the emissions of our fleets coming in over time because the risk is—and this is the very real risk that this Government has now set up for New Zealand—talking to car importers that they will not be able to get the supply that is needed and so New Zealanders will hold on to their dirtier vehicles for longer and that is going to mean that our emissions stay higher for longer. So that is the—they say it could be an unintended consequence—Hon David Bennett: It was obvious.SIMEON BROWN: —but that is—exactly: it's an intended obvious consequence with the standards set where they are currently set.So there will be change needed. We will work with the industry if we're privileged enough to win the next election to fix that issue to make sure that we reduce our emissions over time but that we are also able to make sure that New Zealanders can still get the access to the vehicles that they need and that we don't end up with this issue of people holding on to dirtier vehicles for longer. It's a very serious issue and we will fix it. We support this bill because it fixes their stuff-up—Hon Member: We're fixing the stuff-up.SIMEON BROWN: We're fixing their stuff-up we're supporting fixing their stuff-up but they need to stop doing these stuff-ups take time listen to the industry and actually get it right the first time."