Shaw JamesHon JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. Let me start by acknowledging the whānau of the young boy who lost his life in the floods yesterday. I think every parent expects that when they say goodbye to their children in the morning when they go to school that they will see them again later that evening chatting about their day at school. So I just cannot imagine the loss that that boy's family must be feeling right now. I know that the thoughts of everybody in this House are with them their family their community and their school as well. Of course I do also want to acknowledge the front-line services who have responded yet again and put their own lives on the line yet again in response to this latest event.I have to say that sitting in the chair for the last 15 minutes listening to this debate I find it utterly dispiriting. I want to pick up on something that Mr McAnulty just said about the speech that Chris Bishop gave before him which is that not only did Chris Bishop spend his entire five minutes trashing the Government and not talking about what vision the National Party has he didn't even acknowledge the fact that we are facing yet another state of emergency in our largest city or the fact that we have just lost our 16th life to extreme weather events during the course of this year alone. The idea that New Zealanders are interested in this Punch and Judy show and are more interested in the game of politics than they are in what's happened to their flood-damaged properties or to the lives of their children or to the stress that our front-line responders are under—I'm actually appalled at the myopia and the desperation to win and to be in Government merely for the sake of it without any positive vision or any acknowledgment of what it is that people in this country are facing—it absolutely appals me. It is why I am so committed I have to say to ensuring that we are able to continue in this Government after October of this year because the idea that we have a Government who is only interested in being in Government for the sake of being in Government absolutely disgusts me.As I said this is the third state of emergency that we have faced this year—that our largest city has faced this year. The mental toll that is being extracted upon people in Tāmaki-makau-rau Auckland Tai Tokerau Tairāwhiti Hawke's Bay and so on is extraordinary. We have known for years and years that one of the consequences of a changing climate is that those extreme weather events that we've always had become more frequent and more severe. What that means is that we haven't yet finished recovering from the last one when the next one hits and that has been amply demonstrated once again this week. So I do want to acknowledge the stress and the strain that people who have already lost their properties or been displaced or lost family members must be feeling right now.Yesterday we heard that the cause of all of this—from the ACT Party—is drains; that actually the problem here is drains. I have to say that that is kind of like victim blaming drains rather than actually looking at the cause of the storms that are overloading the drains in the first place. It is absolutely true that our drains and our stormwater systems aren't up to it—that's because they've been under-invested in over the course of the last four decades and beyond. They do need upgrading and the Government has been working for five years on a plan to ensure that there is investment in upgrading our stormwater systems and the ACT Party and the National Party have spent five years opposing that plan. So to say that the problem here is the drains and then to say they're opposed to the solution to that is as absurd to everybody out there as I hope it is to people here today.The other thing that the ACT Party want to do is they want to dismantle the very framework that this House agreed on to deal with the cause of climate change in the first place and to restart the oil and gas industry at a time when we know that we cannot burn 80 percent of our known reserves if we are to have any hope at all around the world of keeping global warming to under 1.5 degrees. So I have to say that I am appalled at the state of this debate and I would urge the members of this House to focus on the issues and the challenges that New Zealanders are facing right now—first and foremost in Auckland right now with the challenges from yet another extreme weather event from climate change. Nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.