Woods MeganHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): There are some very clear and easily articulated reasons why Labour cannot and will not support this bill. And I ask members in this House to turn their attention to an open letter that the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment sent to the Minister of Transport this week given that this is rushed legislation going through this House without the scrutiny of a select committee. So before members get up and say Thanks it's a small bill. It's only bringing things forward by three years." I suggest they do some reading and find out the facts of actually what is happening.Bringing forward the ability of the Minister to make those changes by three years does have implications for our climate targets and how it sits there. I refer the member to the letter from the Hon Simon Upton who I have a great deal of respect for and who understands these things really well. One of the things that he says is "The amendment bill changes the date specified in the regulation making power under section 167C(1)(J)(iv) to bring forward by three years the ability of the Minister to prescribe the targets by way of regulations. It will also cancel the currently legislated ratchet of emissions standards for 2025 2026 and 2027 anticipating that these will [already have been] set by regulation."This is a political decision the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment spells out. Once again we are seeing a political decision by a coalition Government who has made it clear that climate action is not a priority. It is a Government that stripped $3 billion out of climate action in the Budget. It has no plan. We have a Minister of Transport who is also the Minister of Energy and who has no idea how these portfolios fit with what we need to do as a country in terms of our emissions reduction. We have a Government that is floundering and is putting New Zealanders' future at risk.Because here's the thing: if New Zealand does not meet its domestic emissions reductions we have one choice. And that is we go and we pay other countries to reach their domestic emissions reductions such as what Switzerland is currently doing paying to put electric buses on the road in Vietnam. Now every day of the week I will stand in this House and I will defend us reducing our domestic emissions investing in New Zealand jobs New Zealand industries and New Zealanders' futures rather than going offshore to pay other countries to do it. That is the future our Government is consigning us to. They do not have a plan. What they are saying is domestic emissions reductions don't matter New Zealand jobs don't matter the ability of Kiwis to afford to get around doesn't matter.What we can see from the cost-benefit analysis that was done on the original legislation that we put through is there were fuel savings of $128.4 million for New Zealanders by bringing in the Clean Car Standard. There was a reduction in maintenance costs of $191 million reduction in vehicle ownership costs of $32 million and a reduced social cost of carbon emissions by $51 million. This is a Government that does not care about that. They are on an ideological crusade to expunge from the statute books any meaningful climate action because they are a Government that is intent on taking New Zealand backwards for their populist ideology. They need to grow up. They need to present New Zealanders with a real and meaningful plan of how it is that they are going to address carbon emissions. And when we had members stand in this House and say "This is a simple bill that doesn't do much." it shows they're not even bothering to read the documentation that sits alongside the legislation that is being introduced into this House. This Government should be ashamed."