Court SimonSIMON COURT (ACT): Thank you Madam Speaker. Auckland traffic congestion has always been a hot topic. The city is growing quickly but roading and public transport simply haven't kept up. My neighbour who's a 20-something hardcase tradie told me it can take up to 90 minutes to get across the city to the big housing development that he works on in South Auckland. People who move to these new modern communities simply assume that the infrastructure the transport networks will already be there or will follow soon after like four-laning rural roads in what is now suburbs inside the city limits and delivering decent public transport connections to where people live and work. But instead of solving these problems the Prime Minister in 2017 announced the Government would build a light rail to the airport starting with stops in her Mt Albert and Minister Woods' Mt Roskill electorates by 2021. Well I checked my calendar this morning and it's 2022. Not a shovel has been turned and more than $100 million has been wasted.A few weeks ago when the project was announced again by the finance and infrastructure Minister Robertson he said it would be another six to eight years and only $15 billion to deliver this project. I'm going to make a prediction about Auckland light rail: this project's going to get an award for the most announced. I'm going to make another prediction: it's never ever going to be delivered. It's going to stall at the planning stage. It's going to stall under the terrible Resource Management Act consenting process. It's going to stall when they try to work out how to relocate hundreds of kilometres of services along the route. It will fail at a cost of billions of dollars to taxpayers. And that is terrible because we need efficient transport networks. We need good quality public transport to serve our fast-growing cities to serve growing regions and in order to support healthy communities and healthy business. That is why ACT insists politicians stay the heck out of decision making when it comes to transport and infrastructure projects. Leave it to the experts the experts who manage our roads and our infrastructure. ACT would entrust long-term planning and decision making to a new nation building agency an independent agency that would prioritise transport projects by combining local knowledge with the smarts of the Infrastructure Commission combine them with Crown Infrastructure Partners to get funding from the private and public sector. That's how the nation-building agency would deliver more infrastructure and faster. There is another major problem facing not just our transport sector but all of New Zealand every sector and that is this Government's climate policy. The Prime Minister said climate change was her nuclear moment. Last year this country imported record amounts of coal. If it was truly a nuclear moment we would all be irradiated by now. Now in 2018 the Prime Minister announced a ban on oil and gas exploration. Since then gas prices have skyrocketed. Manufacturing and production industries have either shut production lines or quit New Zealand altogether with the loss of jobs and all of those opportunities in the regions and in provincial communities. And according to climate Minister Shaw this afternoon this Government and their Green Party coalition members are only just getting going. That should be a worry for everybody involved in making things and producing things in New Zealand. Imagine being a New Zealand farmer one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly farmers in the world. Your Government won't give you any credits for the carbon that your farm takes up whether it's by growing grass in the soil or in the native bush you have on your farm. But they will tax you for the amount of greenhouse gases you produce. If a carbon investor buys that same farm they can plant pines on it and take the carbon credits. ACT has a better idea than this Government. We believe that New Zealand should be allowed to trade in international carbon credits. Trade is our nation's lifeline. So why does this Government make it illegal to trade in carbon credits? People are telling me New Zealand needs ACT more than ever. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): The member's time has expired. The Hon Poto Williams—five minutes.