Ngaro AlfredALFRED NGARO (National): I rise to take I think the final call on this bill the Energy Innovation (Electric Vehicles and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. Clare Curran has made a speech. I was a little bit sort of confused because the analogy that I heard was a croissant of excitement which ended up in a disappointment.Clare Curran: Frisson.ALFRED NGARO: A crisson"—a "crisson" a croissant; it sort of sounded very similar—and then it went on to pizzas. I am not sure how they connect with electricity but I do know that croissants are cooked in an oven so that is electric but pizzas—the best sort of pizza is cooked in a wood-fired oven so I am not sure how that connects with electricity. Look some of the comments that were made by the member were quite interesting. She said that there is not a plan and maybe if the members just talked about the bill in itself then one could come to that conclusion. But if they look at what has actually been happening previously—I want to draw the member's attention to some of the plans. The first thing you would do in a plan is you would have a feasibility study and you would engage with the sector. We know that on 31 August that is exactly what happened. Minister Joyce along with Minister Bridges announced the procurement changes to drive electric vehicle uptake. So that whole change was in consultation. There was a feasibility study that was done so the member might like to read that because that has been part of what you would call formulating a plan. That was the consultation. There was what they call an all-of-Government panel which was in discussion to talk about in the procurement changes how we could make it more affordable. Mr James Shaw talked about the fleet leasing of vehicles which makes up about 70 percent of our new vehicles in New Zealand—what we could do in that regard. So I would just like to let the member Clare Curran know that those are some—she is about to go but just before she goes there are a few other things that she may want to be made aware of. We had the electric vehicles contestable fund. That was a way of engaging into the community to be able to talk about the importance of how this fund could be used in a way to again promote the key messages around electric vehicles—how they can be beneficial to communities and to consumers. Those things were important. There were 14 areas that were engaged on in the area. There was Electric Vehicle Day when there was a campaign that was constructed to ensure that more of this information was out there. I know the previous speaker Clare Curran talked about the lack of a plan. There was consultation with the sector there was a feasibility plan and there was engagement with regard to rolling out the key information to ensure that the community realises the benefits from electric vehicles. That has been carried out. There is a contestable fund of over a million dollars to ensure that we can have this part of that process ongoing as well. This bill is only one part. It ensures that there is an exemption that will allow for electric vehicles—it also means there is an opportunity to use the lanes that we know are set aside for bus lanes. There are opportunities there. I would say it is not about a lack of a plan. In fact I think it is well-thought-out. I think it is putting it forward. The previous speaker and the Labour Party are talking about Labour's release on the focus on work I think it is called and yet in this Government we are just getting on and doing things that make the difference. For instance in emergency housing there is $300 million and 1400 places available right throughout the country—600 in Auckland and 800 throughout the rest of New Zealand. Those are the sorts of things that this Government is about. This Energy Innovation (Electric Vehicles and Other Matters) Amendment Bill is about scoping more of that. We look forward to the submissions that will come forward from the sector. We are glad to hear that right across the House people are supportive of this bill. We will support it going to the Commerce Committee. We have got a great chair who will take us through hearing these submissions. We look forward to returning this bill and the report to the House. I commend this bill to the House.Bill read a first time. Bill referred to the Commerce Committee."