Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Mr Speaker—Hon Members: Judith! Judith!SPEAKER: Order!Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Isn't that lovely of them. They're always cheering every time I stand up. See I think it's a lovely place to work here in Parliament. I think that the Rt Hon Winston Peters who's resumed his seat made one true comment in that. He said that wherever he goes he has a mirror. I think—and he nods; he nods to accept that. Some people would say be a bit careful when you're crossing the road Mr Peters with that mirror in front of your face—it may not work that well.Well look I thought we would talk about something important so we're not going to talk about him. We're going to talk about the cost of living and the cost of living to New Zealanders. No matter what we want to talk about—and some people might want to talk about people with some sort of attention-seeking behaviours—what we're going to talk about is what matters.Let's have a look at rental housing. We saw some issues today in rental housing from the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army are not known to be big supporters of the National Party or National Party Governments; however they are coming out today with a long-term Labour Party activist representing the Salvation Army saying that actually the rental housing market has got worse. In fact what is the report that they're talking about? It's called Beyond Renting: Responding to the decline in private rental housing. Some people might think that's not very important. Well I think it's very important and I know on this side of the House we believe it is.Every single announcement on rental housing from the Labour-led Government from Phil Twyford has been about actually decreasing the number of private rental houses available. The Salvation Army—certainly not people connected to the National Party—have come out today and said that's absolutely right. What they're saying and what Statistics New Zealand have said and what MBIE—the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment—are saying is that it's around a $25 a week increase in the last year for a rental house under this Government this Labour-led Government. They have actually overseen enormous cost increases.Let's have a look at petrol tax. In an electorate like Papakura that I represent it's a big issue for people there. It's a big issue for carpenters big issue for people working on building sites big issue for people who carry tools who have to go from site to site during the day—they're not going to sit around waiting for public transport. You can't take your building tools on public transport. You can't do that. What we've got is a Government that turns their—we heard today saying things like Oh it's about $2 a week more." What a load of rubbish. What a total load of rubbish. The further out people live from the building sites or from the worksites the more they pay. Most people do not get the opportunity to have an electric vehicle.Let's just talk about electric vehicles for a moment. An appalling performance yet again from David Parker representing the Minister of Energy and Resources—an appalling performance. He said wind turbines are so renewable. Well actually wind is; the turbines themselves not so much. There is three tonnes of copper in every single wind turbine all having to be taken out of the ground—three tonnes of copper. Then you have the concrete. Then you have the steel—massive amounts of steel. Guess what? You need to have iron. Steel is made from iron and coal. Why is it coal? Because it's carbonated iron—that's what steel is. So you've got wind which may be well renewable—certainly from that side of the House it's very renewable—but the turbines themselves not so much. And then there are the birds that they kill.So 4 percent of our electricity generation is from wind turbines at the moment; 63 percent from the hydro—the same dams that what was the Green Party or the Values Party were campaigning against in the 1970s; those hydro dams. We've got a Government that is happy to sit by and let more coal be burnt so that Jacinda Ardern can virtue signal on the world stage and say she doesn't want any more natural gas. We've got six years supply of natural gas in this country. It's 16 percent explored and able to be guaranteed. We have 16 percent of our electricity generation from natural gas—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."