Luxton JoJO LUXTON (Labour): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. I'm pleased to stand and take an opportunity to speak to this the third reading of the Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Bill and I have to say such passion—such passion from the Opposition today. If only we'd seen so much passion from them in the last nine years. But anyway I digress. I will get on to talking about this bill.We had Todd Muller speak before. He said Governments are defined by the legislation they create." Well I tell you what I am proud of all the legislation that we've created—passed and created—but boy am I especially proud to be a part of a Government defined by this legislation. It is bold. It is forward-thinking. It is future-focused and we are focused on making things better for our future generations for our children our children's children our great-grandchildren and the environment.We heard also from Barbara Kuriger who talked about all the things that they would do when they were back in Government around this space. But my question around that is: why didn't you do anything in this space in the last nine years? [Interruption] Anyway that's just my question to you. I didn't hear anything previously. She also passed the comment that we haven't seen anyone in Taranaki. Well I'm pretty sure—but I'm happy to be corrected—the Minister and the Prime Minister have both visited Taranaki. But that's OK I stand to be corrected.Anyway so I want to congratulate the Environment Committee for all the hard work that they've put into this piece of legislation and I want to thank the submitters. I heard today that there were 7000—7000—submissions and 86 percent were in favour of this bill and if that is not a mandate to move forward and that you're on the right track then I don't know what is.So climate change is happening. It is happening whether we like it or not. What is important is how we adapt and how we plan for it. We must not be a fast follower. That is not good enough. We must be leaders in this space and being effective leaders doesn't mean sitting on your hands and doing nothing. You have to make bold decisions. Sometimes they are hard decisions but they are the right decisions. And this piece of legislation is the right decision.So this Government is committed to being a leader not a follower on climate change and to transitioning and moving to a low-carbon economy. And I just want to read a submission that stood out for me from Gabrielle Pankhurst who said "New Zealand is a small emitter on the Global Stage but can have a big presence encouraging other nations to take action. New Zealand has led the way and had an outsized effect in the past on the nuclear threat apartheid in South Africa votes for women and many other policies. Let's lead the world again when facing the existential threat of climate change." And that just reiterates what I've said.So this legislation will mean that future block offers will exclude new offshore exploration permits and that block offers will be limited to onshore Taranaki. We've heard from the other side of the House about the risk to employment but I want to talk about the fact that this Government has passed legislation—future-focused legislation—enabling people to transition from certain types of work into others with our first year fees-free getting people into trades—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! Back to the bill.JO LUXTON: Sorry Madam Assistant Speaker. I would also like to quote from Minister Wood's speech initially where she said we've already invested heavily in the Taranaki region. I quote this: "The Provincial Growth Fund has already earmarked more than $21 million" which includes the potential for new discoveries to make use of existing production in transmission infrastructure and it's with things like that that we will ensure that people are able to transition in a just and fair manner into new employment should things change for them.We're not talking about stopping this overnight. This is about a 30-year transition. This gives industry—it gives people—time to plan to adjust and to change their way of thinking. We have to be sensible about it. We have to give people time to change. I am proud that our small country Aotearoa is leading the way boldly."