Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (Associate Minister for Energy): This short contribution is to support my ministerial colleague. Today industry sees the long-term consequences of the shallow emerald manikin thinking that's driven energy policy for the last five or six years. Today industry throughout New Zealand is confronted by the facts as a consequence of that juvenile woke-riddled foolish belief that we don't need our natural resources that we don't need our natural gas that we don't need coal has been laid bare. Hopefully these emerald manikins will retire and let the serious politicians address the unresolved issues in our economy.Of course any threat to energy security is not only a matter for households hospitals schools; it lies at the heart of our industry. When industry is contacting the Minister for Energy and saying they have doubts as to whether or not they can secure with security industry resources such as fuel look no further than that side of the House. That side of the House with their indiscriminate destructive refinery-destroying actions. That side of the House with chilling chilling effect stopping investment scaring overseas existing investors away and destroying industry in New Zealand. For what—for what? This faint green vision that somehow we can keep the lights on with unicorn kisses. Impossible. We need hard driven trade-off decisions which is what the Minister and my good self—with appropriate modesty—will be delivering.First there will be further exploration delivery and investment in oil and gas. It lies at the heart of the nation's fiscal solvency and the nation's productivity. And yes if they meet the criteria they will get a permit in a rapid period of time just as sun will just as wind will. Tell me this—those who are opposed to resilience and energy security name me one bill that has been passed by the other side of the House to deliver rapid clean green energy investments. No you can't—no you can't. Oh we are going to hear about a pipeline—a pipeline—of BlackRock investment but no consents. We're going to hear about a pipeline of climate change dreams but absolutely no content. That's why the actual body of officials and stakeholders that are being stood up this Friday are going to go to the heart of the issue. They're not going to write any more policy say on scripts. They're not going to tolerate any more long protracted working groups. We're going to have a working party about gas transition. By 2030 we're going to get rid of all fossil fuels."—pipedreams that deserve the outcome that was visited on the other side of the House: permanent Opposition.We however are going to ensure that this group creates concrete steps that will deliver not only certainty to industry but they will be able to rely upon a fast-track regime that will be accompanied by new legislation reopening oil and gas not juvenile foolish tiddlywink games on the other side of the House. They will also see that there will no longer be this cumbersome throttling burdensome obligation upon the industry; there will be balance. When that happens not only will there be gas to ensure we avoid energy blackouts but there will be confidence back in investors in New Zealand industry in New Zealand and hospitals and schools because they realise that all the green manikin thinking has gone by the way the grown-ups are in charge—energy's on the way."