Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): I don't know what that member Damien O'Connor is talking about—about feeling emotional about this Budget. I feel emotional when I think about those poor farmers down in Ashburton and surrounding districts that have actually had not just their moving day disrupted but their whole dairy season. It's going to take a long time to recover from that. Yes it was a Labour Budget and if the Minister was emotional about that—well I can tell you this is the Minister for Rural Communities that we just heard from. I got a magnifying glass and I looked through this Budget to find the word rural". Now I can tell you that I put a video on my Facebook page. It was made before the Budget and I put it on after the Budget. I was so certain that that Minister was not doing his job and I was looking for the word "rural"—scanning scanning scanning. There was one piece on connectivity and it wasn't for any more connectivity Minister; it was to upgrade what we already have to 5G. It wasn't going to cover any further area. You know people have said to me "Why doesn't the Minister for Rural Communities care about rural communities?" We're looking for it. We're scanning for it and even with magnifying glasses Minister we can't find it.The Minister waxed lyrical about "Those people that need assistance should get help." and I agree with that but there's been a lot of farmers out there who need workers right now. They're not getting the help. The fruit pickers didn't get the help. There was not even a sense of opening up borders to countries that didn't have COVID to allow staff to come in and do the job. That's not helping people that need it the most and guess where the Labour Budget and the Labour Government who's running this Budget get their money from? They get it from rural New Zealand. I can tell you we are very lucky that last week Fonterra made an announcement that had "$8" in front of the forecast payout because I can tell that Minister that we are one dairy downturn away from this Government not being able to gloat about how much money they've got. Most of them haven't realised where it comes from. I hope the Minister has; I don't think he's quite registered yet.I was looking in here where it says "Budget makes more Kiwi homes warmer and reduces emissions across sectors." Now we have been talking for too long in this country about wool. Think about the wool farmers. I'm the energy spokesperson. I'm a great proponent of wool—wool carpets wool clothing wool insulation. I don't see anything in this Budget anywhere about wool. How are we going to keep our homes warm and dry? Obviously not with wool under this Government.As part of my portfolio on emissions from transport—associate transport spokesperson—it's really laudable that this Government is trying to make claims for strong climate action at a time when we're on a nine-year coal high just to get our electricity in place. In fact private businesses have to sell their gas currently so we can keep the lights on in this country and I can only hope that maybe some of that water that came down in the South Island this week—apart from the damage that it's caused—might have run into those hydro dams because if it hasn't this is a Budget that's got no investment in gas and this Government has literally killed the investment in the gas industry. We're short of gas we're short of hydro and they all live in fairy tales about new technologies that one day we'll have. We're excited too. We actually want to deal with climate change but you can't have a just transition with no available answers in the quantity we need. We're actually digging a big hole in energy.Minister Wood actually made an announcement the other day about electric cars—a pre-Budget announcement. Well get this: the Government's got a 15000-car target for the Government electric car fleet by 2025. So far they've got 155. That's 1 percent—1 percent. The Minister made an announcement for another 422. That would give us 577 if it was delivered. If it was delivered tomorrow they would be at 3.8 percent of their target in four years and it's not actually delivered yet. Come on Government this is not a Budget; this is just a pipedream. Thank you Mr Speaker."