Court Simon; Woods MeganSIMON COURT (ACT): Madam Chair thank you. I have a couple of questions for the Minister. Minister what is the likely cost to consumers from the application of the levy in terms of cents per litre on diesel?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): I'm happy to answer that and I did address this in my second reading speech on this bill. This is actually just changing the rules around the levy of how what is already collected can be used. So it is not an increase in the levy; it's around the criteria of where it can be used. The levy at the moment—the way in which it's written—can largely only be used by international oil tickets. That does not address New Zealand's domestic fuel security. So it's changing the rules because it is not the least-cost option; it will be more expensive to have onshore stockholding but that is critical to our domestic security. So there isn't an increased cost to consumers. SIMON COURT (ACT): Thank you for clarifying that Minister. That will be seen as a small mercy for all of those subject to the inflationary pressures they're suffering in this cost of living crisis. Imagine that. The Government knows how to reallocate reprioritise spending—all it took was a little tweak to a levy! But thank you Minister.Look back to business: have you had any advice Minister on where fuel needs to be stored? What are those locations? What does that mean in terms of resilience? How does the Minister define resilience and how will we know we've achieved it?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): As to the locations of where the fuel will be stored that is obviously something that is a critical part of this work. If we're talking about resilience where it is that we have that fuel stored and the ability to transport it—if that is what is required—is critical. There will be a full request for proposal (RFP) process and part of that RFP will be around geographical location as well.SIMON COURT (ACT): Thank you Madam Chair and thank you Minister; that's very helpful.Andrew Bayly: No it's not.SIMON COURT: Mr Bayly says it's not helpful but it is helpful to me and my line of questioning Mr Bayly. So thank you Minister. So you've confirmed that the Government will procure fuel for storage somewhere yet to be determined. I'm assuming that through developing the scope of the request for proposal there will be some measures that those responding will need to address.I'm also interested in how the stock is managed. Has any consideration been given to the fact that diesel has a shelf life? So if diesel is stored somewhere and not used it could be subject to biological contamination from what they call diesel bug" in the trade. When I worked as a civil engineer every now and again we'd go to start up a machine or we would use fuel from onsite storage and we'd discover that the fuel had actually grown algae which live on diesel. That's because if the fuel is not regularly used if the tanks are not essentially flushed with new fuel continuously then there's a risk of biological contamination and the fuel is ruined or rendered unsuitable. So Minister has any consideration been given to how the stock is managed and what storage actually means?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): Thank you Madam Chair. Yes a great deal of consideration has been given to the integrity of the fuel that is being stored. There's a number of measures that will be put in place. The request for proposal will be around winter-specified diesel so that it does have more resilience in that respect. There will also be a turnover regime for the fuel and there will be a regular testing regime to ensure that the diesel is fit for purpose if it is called up for those purposes of fuel security."