Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. It won't be a full 10-minute call but I'd like to stand in support of my colleagues on this side and talk about some of the issues that we have. I guess the background to this bill is in relation to the gas supply disruption most notably the Pohokura outage which contributed to the high electricity spot market prices. I haven't actually been part of the debate right from the beginning but you know I've just heard some of the comments that were actually made. I reflect on I guess the everyday New Zealanders who actually rely on Governments to make sure that their power—whether it is actually gas or whether it's actually electricity—is actually offered at a fair price. When you have a shortage the prices go up. When gas exploration is stopped of course the prices are going to go up because there is going to be a shortage. The alternative energy source that is required to generate power often may not be the kind that we want—for example when we have had outages the use of coal increased tremendously. We talk about in this House wanting to be more environmentally friendly and have more green energy and when we're increasing the use of coal that is not necessarily the path that we want to walk in.I guess it seems really odd to me that the Gas Industry Company Ltd has not actually finalised its findings or recommendations. Instead this Government has implemented policy without the industry putting in its proposal. I would have thought when one is actually making policy and decisions and legislation in this House that they would actually consult widely with the industries and actually get to an outcome that they want to have before they put a legislative process in.Just looking at the bill the bill creates a broad new empowering provision that allows gas governance regulation to require data and information to be provided and disclosed by any industry participants or consumers other than domestic consumers. The information may include volume price and other market information forecasts; information about actual and potential outages; information about risk to security of supply; and information to help other industry participants or consumers to make informed decisions.I think most of us support the idea of disclosure—disclosure of information about actual planned or potential outages. But the thing is that when the powers actually require price and other market information I'm not so sure if that's as far as we actually want to go. We want to place in the bill a statutory requirement for consultation with the stakeholders in the gas market before regulations requiring such information can be made.I love gas. I love cooking with gas. I have gas in my house. I have gas supply in my house. During the COVID-19 lockdown I have actually cooked quite a bit. Being an oriental person and requiring a certain kind of flame that is actually required for the ethnic foods I have to say gas works so much better than electricity especially when you're doing wok cooking stir-fries and fried rice and whatever. I have to say I actually support gas. As far as I'm concerned when New Zealanders are offered cheaper gas it is a good thing and when New Zealanders are offered fair electricity it's a good thing. For me any piece of legislation that provides that has to be a good thing. I support this to select committee.DEPUTY SPEAKER: So this is a split call. I call Michael Wood.